Coral Woman: A Sketching and Book Illustration Workshop

Name: Coral Woman: A Sketching and Book Illustration Workshop
Start: 2021-04-10T05:30:00.000+0000
End: 2021-04-10T07:30:00.000Z
Location: Online

Apr 10 '21 | 11:00 AM (IST)

Online Event

Event Information

Join us for an interactive virtual workshop – led by Children’s Book Illustrator Zainab Tambawalla – in which participants will learn about the fundamentals and basic creative processes of illustration and come together to create exciting and imaginative seascapes for an educational children’s book all about coral reefs.

This workshop is part of a unique collaborative conservation project, Sustainability NOW: Coral Woman – which involves the creation of the book Coral Woman – written by Author, Curator and Founder, Peek A Book – Festival of Children's Literature Lubaina Bandukwala and conceptualised around Filmmaker Priya Thuvassery’s mesmerising and revealing short film of the same name.

Workshop Highlights Include:

• Sharing of the illustrator’s creative process

• Breaking-down character design

• Simplification of characters and gestures

• Participants will contribute illustrations and artworks towards the design of the book

• Experimenting with easily available materials to create an illustrated coral reef