The Magic Sponsor - version 3
Experimental Picture Book
This is an unpublished picturebook based on a free interpretation of an popular story registered by the Brazilian folklorist named Luis da Câmara Cascudo. This is one of six illustrated versions of the same text. I made them as part of my PhD Thesis in Drawing/Illustration (Fine Arts Faculty of University of Lisbon).
For each one of them I used a constraint adapted from OuBaPo (acronym of Ouvroir de Bande Dessinée Potentielle, a group that uses constraints as a creative process). Here I used the constraint named Iconic Restriction, that limit the representation of one or more character/object. The more important the element to be restricted, the more intense the result.
I was a little radical on applying this constraint and I didn’t represented any character from the original story, instead I hid them in a parallel narrative along the work. In addition, I set the story in a circus, which has nothing to do with the set of the original story. The result is a contrast almost surrealistic between text and image.
The illustrations were first sketched a storyboard, the first rough was made with the text and, finally, drawn with pen and ink. The last step was paint it on Photoshop.
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