A UST Advertising Fine Arts graduate Iori Espiritu one of Adarna House excellent illustrators visited UST College of Fine Arts and Design to have an inspirational talk about Children’s book illustration on selected Advertising arts students. It is to inspire the student artists on illustrating children’s story books.
“We’ve got ADARNA” was the chosen title for the event. It was held in the UST Beato Angelico Bldg gallery. The Ideas That Matter team organized the said event, in which they invited Iori Espiritu to be the guest speaker. On the event itself, there were few information and background about illustrating children’s book. Also, we introduced Iori’s background profile and some of her inspiring artworks.
Äng Mga Hayop sa Filipinas was her first Adarna book illustration. While looking at her artworks, I can see that she has the original visual style in creating the characters. It was an amazing moment when she just started telling stories about her experiences and gave us tips and pointers on how to be a good children’s book illustrator or an illustrator as well. She presented her proposal book illustration in Adarna “When Zero Left Numberland” as an example. We also had a question and answer portion after her talk in which she answered those with her experiences as an artist.
We also had some drawing activities led by Iori, which enhanced our minds in story illustration making and character sketch. I also helped her in facilitating the said activity like in the picture below. It was indeed fun and challenging. After the activity, she had a brief advice for us aspiring artist. She said that we should not just limit our imagination and learning. We as an artist should step out of the box and learn beyond the boundaries. Explore, Learn and Share. Be original, because being original is what makes you stand out.
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