Valentina Avilés Among stories and pictures

Valentina Avilés Among stories and pictures

When re-draw it reality, or even transmute the world of stories and vivid scribbles,  Valentina Avilés  is able to capture on paper the images stored in your eyes.

Exaggerated characters, dressed as animals, colors that are hidden within the pages of books and even textures that play with imagination forms are some characteristics of jobs that  Valentina  has proposed in his drawings for children's stories. Meticulous and perfectionist, takes 6 years recreating your own reality artwork.

His story is simple, while she was studying the first semester of graphic design at the University Model ,  in Mérida, Yucatán, dedicated his free time to wander with brush and leaves, creating drawings and illustrations for itself. One day, his sister came to his desk tasks without more, I uttered the phrase that would determine the course of the following years: "your drawings are childish, you should work on stories for children." In that time she has not learned how to take the comment, but soon the echo of it would impact his career as a designer, and was as well as during social service, studying just the third semester, he ran into the possibility of the illustrations for children's short stories, for the School of Psychology at the same university, there it all started. Passion began what would become of Valentina.

From that moment the snowball grew and grew exponentially and inevitably. Just one semester after completing their first project, members of the Association for Research and Popular Education Autogestiva, AC (IEPAAC) invite her to participate in the illustration of teaching materials for children. In 2011 she found work in the Editorial Dante, where he developed projects like the illustrations from the collection of classic tales of  Hans Christian Andersen  and the  Brothers Grimm , among many others, gradually, he would slide featuring on his pencil on paper.

Ink, watercolor, digital and recently metal engraving, are some of the techniques that  Valentina  has experienced and which makes clear his continuing hunger for new learning and polishing their quest for a personal style followed in consolidating his career.

Illustrator currently is developing a personal project with her ​​sister, together plan to create a storybook in which Valentina illustrated stories to write Gaby (his sister) to wrap their creativity and imagination of children.

Valentina  talks us that in future plans arises focus all your energy on putting a publishing workshop where she can work on their design projects and children's illustrations, and at the same time work as a school where we can share the knowledge of all those who get drunk with the world of graphic arts.

Throughout this road traveled  Valentina Avilés , are of course different sources of inspiration that always guide, teach and define the personal style of an artist who continues to grow. Among the names mentioned are the illustrator:  Javier Saez Castan ,  Oliver Jeffreys ,  Sophie Blackall , Rebecca Dautremer ,  Isis Egle ,  Benjamin Lacombe , and within the Favorite Quino  and  David Roberts .

The uniqueness that surrounds this young is important mention of the phrase that moves and inspires his work:

"What really makes the desert beautiful is that it hides a well anywhere."

Phrase rescued from The Little Prince  describes the invitation  Valentina  makes people illustrate when remembering on their own experience are the tiniest and seemingly insignificant details that rescue us and give us a sense or a "do not know" capable of exerting a force of gravity, which paints with colors our moments. So, with brush in hand and well put imagination on the head,  Valentina  Aviles  is ready to share a bit of this idea through their artwork.