From Autobiography to Illustrated Story
Introduction
A course by Paloma Valdivia , Illustrator, Writer and Editor
About the video: Introduction
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you part of my story and how I became an illustrator. Today there are more tools to be an illustrator, but when I started, being an illustrator in Chile was like being an explorer in a virgin forest. I will also show you some of my work. ”
In this video lesson Paloma Valdivia addresses the topic: Introduction, which is part of the Domestika online course: From Autobiography to Illustrated Story. Learn how to create a picture book starting from a personal story and an object from your childhood.
Partial transcription of the video
“P de Picasso Presentation Hi, I'm Paloma Valdivia, illustrator and I welcome you to a new Domestika course. I was born in Santiago de Chile and I am the daughter of an architect that from a very young age lent me pencils to draw. She was working on her drawing board and I at a small table next to it. I am also the daughter of a geologist dad who gave me a lot of love for nature, music, rocks and the sky. I think that's where my creativity and my love for art comes from. As a child I studied in a nuns' school, where they taught me to bake cakes, to bathe babies, but they also gave me a lot o...”
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Course summary for: From Autobiography to Illustrated Story
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Writing
Paloma Valdivia
A course by Paloma Valdivia
With a design degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a postgraduate degree in illustration from the Escola d'Art i Disseny de Barcelona, illustrator, writer, and publisher Paloma Valdivia has taken the children and young adult’s books world by storm.
With work translated into more than twenty languages, she has been recognized internationally with the New Horizon Award of the Bologna Children's Book Fair (Italy), the BIB PLAQUÉ of the Bratislava Biennial of Illustration (Slovakia), the Municipal Literature Award of Santiago (Chile), The Best Book Awards granted by UNESCO and the German Graphic Arts Foundation, and the Little Bird Award, among others.
Besides having her own publishing house dedicated exclusively to children’s books, Ediciones Liebre, Paloma has collaborated with publishers and entities including Amanuta (Chile), Fondo de Cultura Económica (Mexico), Kalandraka (Spain), La Joie de Lire (Switzerland), Fatatrac, (Italy), and Enchanted Lion Books (USA).
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