Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook
Influences
A course by Pablo Bernasconi , Illustrator and Writer
Joined July 2021
About the video: Influences
Overview
“We are going to review here some of the influences that I consider most significant in my way of drawing an aesthetic and conceptual course.”
In this video lesson Pablo Bernasconi addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook. Learn how to create a picturebook using mixed media and digital collage techniques, from the story layout to the final images.
Partial transcription of the video
“influences In this lesson I will introduce you some of my biggest influences. The first is this Romanian artist called Dan Perjovschi. He is an artist that I like a lot. because the complexity it achieves is incredible from terribly simple images. It is the extreme of simplicity. He is a rupturist, like a purist. Look how he manages to solve a very complex concept from a very simple image. I would say that he is one of the artists who exalts this phrase the most that says "less is more". In times where aesthetic excellence is what prevails, I find this type of expression very courageous and...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration

Pablo Bernasconi
A course by Pablo Bernasconi
Pablo Bernasconi is a graphic designer, illustrator, and author from Bariloche, Argentina, known for his original creations full of humor and depth, and his magical visual metaphors. His work—with more than 30 published books—has been translated into 12 languages.
Many of his illustrated metaphors have appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, The Telegraph, Rolling Stone, and The Times. He has received significant awards throughout his career, such as Los Destacados de ALIJA and the SND gold medal. Additionally, he was a finalist at the Hans Christian Andersen Awards (IBBY) in 2018 and a candidate for the ALMA (Astrid Lindgren Award) in 2021 and 2022.
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