Time: 3:30-5:30pm, Thursday, June 1, 2017
Venue: Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York (1 East 42nd St.)
The biggest difference between illustration and fine art is that illustration is a form of commercial art: its aesthetics applies to everyday life. It has to perform certain functions and convey information to its target audience. This information is carried through newspapers, magazines, books, advertising, merchandise, and the internet into public life. Through different creative themes (fashion, travel, fantasy, current affairs, lifestyle, character design, etc.), media (traditional and digital) and markets (gifts, stationery, animation, advertising, graphic novels, picture books, promotions, home furnishing, and decorative wall art), illustrators demonstrate diverse, lively, and everyday sides of the illustration field to the consumers’ lives.
Nina Edwards has nearly 20 years of illustration, graphic design, and curating experience in the US. She teaches Fashion Illustration, Digital Art, and Art Licensing classes and workshops at Pratt Institute. Her expertise includes digital and watercolor illustrations, especially integrating opposing elements such as traditional and modern, Eastern and Western, and art and technology into her illustrations and designs.
In this two-hour hands-on workshop, she will share her creative process on how to incorporate her Taiwanese Hakka watercolor floral illustration, with the help of the modern software technology, to develop practical and beautiful licensing gift product lines, she will also demonstrate live Hakka floral watercolor painting, along with several popular drawing software like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Procreate App. The main purpose of this illustration workshop is to show to the audience illustration is an applied art that covers many different areas and fields.