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"Don't Erase" Exhibition by the students on the EINA Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Illustration

Thursday 12 July saw the opening of the "Don't Erase" exhibition, where visitors can see a series of projects produced by students on the [Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Illustration and Visual Communication Techniques] (https://www.eina.cat/ca/postgraus/diplomatura-de-postgrau-illustracio-creativa-i-tecniques-de-comunicacio-visual), coordinated by Philip Stanton...

Thursday 12 July saw the opening of the "Don't Erase" exhibition, where visitors can see a series of projects produced by students on the [Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Illustration and Visual Communication Techniques] (https://www.eina.cat/ca/postgraus/diplomatura-de-postgrau-illustracio-creativa-i-tecniques-de-comunicacio-visual), coordinated by Philip Stanton.

Under the title of “Don’t Erase”, the students consider the importance of embracing mistakes and losing their fear of them to find the only and non-transferable way of illustrating, as mistakes are not the enemy, but travelling companions.

“There’s no quick way to becoming a successful illustrator, just as there’s no one way to illustrate, each one of us does and will continue to do it in our own way, but what’s clear is that to illustrate well, you need to do it without fear, with confidence and certainty both in your successes and in your mistakes, because that’s what makes a work excite us,” explain the students.

Illustrating is a process of trial and error, of making drafts, colour trials, repeating, crumpling up paper and throwing it away, going too far, not getting there and, above all: erasing.

The act of erasing gives us the possibility of putting right what we don’t like, it opens up new paths and, at the same time, it limits us. On the one hand, it allows us to edit everything we want to, but on the other, this infinity in correcting takes us to the extreme idea of reaching the right, exact and perfect point, which sometimes distances our work from the reality it’s illustrating: done on the basis of small mistakes.

In illustration, we always try to make everything perfect because in real life that’s impossible and we try to run away from mistakes, creating images under our control without realising that sometimes what’s correct and what makes our work transcend is precisely showing the mistake in all its glory, working with errors like we do in our everyday life: not erasing.

Participating illustrators: Alexia Adrover, Lucas Amaral, Eugenia Anglès, Martín Azpilikueta, Berta Cervilla, Maria de Balanzó, Andrea de Castro, Raquel Díaz, Laia Ebert, Bernardo Ferro Bagulho, Varvara Fomina, Santiago Gómez, Alicia Jimenez, Claudie Linke, Catalina Mekis, Rosario Merello, Constanza Olea, Belén Olivera, Adriana Páramos, Júlia Puig, Marc Rodríguez, Arantxa Rueda, Valentina Silva, Rut Tena, Ariadna Veas and Shuang Zhang.

With the collaboration of Sumarroca.