Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
The alphabet, a pretext to create
A course by Leonor Pérez B. , Illustrator and Instructor
About the video: The alphabet, a pretext to create
Overview
“Next, we will be inspired by meaningful words to interpret them through images. For this purpose, we will use the structure of an Alphabet, a reference work that today has become an interesting creative possibility to tell stories.”
In this video lesson Leonor Pérez B. addresses the topic: The alphabet, a pretext to create, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination. Learn to mix different materials and discover new visual narratives that feed your creativity.
Partial transcription of the video
“The alphabet, a pretext to create In this lesson, we will work with the relationship between written and visual language but in a different way. In the previous lesson, we did an imaginative exploration, putting together existing words and texts to generate a narrative which helped us to illustrate. In this lesson, we will delve into a topic of personal taste and we will generate a sequence of illustrations, that will take an alphabet structure. Alphabet books have become a literary genre. They allow us to delve into a topic and generate different stories. The main requirement is to choose ...”
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Course summary for: Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Collage, Drawing, Fine Arts, Traditional illustration
Leonor Pérez B.
A course by Leonor Pérez B.
Illustrator Leonor Pérez was born in Santiago, Chile where she also received her BA in visual arts. She taught children and teens for some years until finally deciding to dedicate herself solely to illustration. She then moved to Mexico to study the discipline at the UNAM's Casa Universitario del Libro, a trip that had a great impact on her career. She went on to study imagination and creativity and is currently taking a master's in education. She has worked for the vast majority of the publishing houses across Chile as well as collaborated with publishers in Mexico, the US, Korea, and Brazil.
She is a three-time winner of the IBBY Chile's Hummingbird Medal and her book Balada da estrela e outros poemas has won awards from the FNLIJ IBBY Brasil and the Catedra Unesco de Leitura PUC-Rio. Additionally, Leonor is a professor for the illustration diploma and continuing education program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
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