Build characters from the observation of their essential traits with Gabriela Rubio and Mercè Canals.
A blot with a trunk that becomes an elephant, black stripes on a yogurt pot that make us see a zebra, a tomato with horns representing a demon... Visual representation has no limits when we learn to look closely. In this workshop, we’ll explore how details, shapes, and gestures can contain the essence of a character, inviting us to see the whole through a part.
This workshop is a small sample of the approach of the Specialization Course in Children’s and Young People’s Illustration, where technique meets creativity and narrative precision merges with graphic experimentation.
What will you find?
A hands-on experience led by illustrators/authors Gabriela Rubio and Mercè Canals, who will invite you to look, analyze, and create from the essence of form. Through exercises in observation, synthesis, and action, you’ll explore how small details —a line, a texture, a posture— can reveal the complete identity of a character.
During the workshop you will learn to:
- Observe carefully the visual traits and actions that define a character.
- Simplify and reinterpret these features to express their essence with few elements.
- Explore simple techniques that enhance expressiveness and gesture.
- Discover the narrative value of children’s illustration, where every stroke can tell a story.
- A space to play with ideas, experiment fearlessly, and understand how imagination can transform simple representations into lively characters that tell their own story.
Aimed at
- Graduates in design.
- Graduates in Fine Arts or Advertising and Public Relations.
- People with an interest, skills, or experience in visual arts, graphic arts, illustration, animation, or comics.
- People interested in childhood or pedagogy, with basic skills in graphic expression.
Practical information
→ Thursday, November 13, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
→ Onsite Workshop
→ Eina Sentmenat. Room 2.03
→ Free registration open on the website form
Do you want to move forward?
If this workshop sparks your curiosity about the process of creating characters, telling visual stories, or exploring new ways of communicating through images, the Specialization Course in Children’s and young people’s Illustration at Eina is the natural next step.
A learning and creative space where precision and freedom, observation and play, intertwine to bring your illustrated universe to life.