Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions
Influences
A course by Noemí Villamuza , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Next, I will tell you about the first artists that moved me and how I was connecting illustration with literature.”
In this video lesson Noemí Villamuza addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions. Learn to compose compelling children’s illustrations using graphite, watercolor, and collage .
Partial transcription of the video
“influences In this lesson I am going to talk about some of my influences. Illustrators, painters, artists who influenced my beginnings. The first book I'm going to show you it is titled "Paris 1900. The Art of the Poster." This book contains a retrospective of the history of the cartel, especially in Europe. all modernism, all the work that illustrators did in advertising. A beauty. For example this image, which is a poster by Toulouse-Lautrec, I was fascinated when I studied Fine Arts. So far I had only studied his paintings, but not his drawings or his posters. The composition, the spots ...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Children's Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Noemí Villamuza
A course by Noemí Villamuza
Illustrator Noemí Villamuza was born in Palencia, Spain, and has been living in Barcelona since 1998, the same year she published her first children's book. She studied fine arts with a major in graphic design, but she found her true calling in illustration. She has released numerous children's and young adult books with publishers like Kalandraka, Kókinos, Media Vaca, and Nórdica, and has created illustrations for graphic novels as well as press and advertising content.
She was a finalist for Spain's National Illustration Award in 2002 and won a Junceda award for illustration in 2007, as well as an award for the IBBY poster for the 2010 International Children's Book Day. When she's not creating, she shares her knowledge by teaching illustration classes at institutions across Barcelona, like the Escola de la Dona, Escola Bau, and Escola Massana, and by running workshops at schools, libraries, and cultural centers.
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