Story Illustration with Paper
Create your own imagination
A course by Estrellita Caracol , Visual Artist and Illustrator
Joined December 2013
About the video: Create your own imagination
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to build our imagination, an inventory of elements with a common morphology that we will then use as a guide to build our illustrations. ”
In this video lesson Estrellita Caracol addresses the topic: Create your own imagination, which is part of the Domestika online course: Story Illustration with Paper. Explore the possibilities of paper and learn to illustrate using collage techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“CREATE YOUR OWN IMAGINARY In this lesson we will make our own imaginary. An imaginary is like an element guide We will use for our illustration. I, for example, to arm my imaginary I used the photographs of my reference trip and from the photos I generated a record, in this case, of the possible trees that will be in my city or of the possible plants. When I have to draw plants I know that I am going to trim these plants because they are inside my guide. Here what we have to think It's how the elements of my city are going to be. I will always keep the same criteria. It will also have to do...”
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Course summary for: Story Illustration with Paper
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Collage, Creating with Kids, Narrative, Paper Craft, Traditional illustration

Estrellita Caracol
A course by Estrellita Caracol
Natalia Spadaro, better known as Estrellita Caracol, is an Argentine illustrator. She studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires, but later taught herself illustration, specializing in collage.
Her illustrations have been featured in books and magazines from a range of publishers like Atlántida, Edelvives, MacMillan, Puerto de Palos, Estrada, Treintayseis, Gerbera, and Kalimat from the United Arab Emirates. She has also participated in numerous exhibitions. In 2013, her illustrations were chosen to compete in the Fourth Ibero-American Illustration Contest and the Guadalajara International Book Fair. She currently works as a freelance artist, designer, and illustrator and teaches workshops on collage and illustration for both adults and children.
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