Illustration & Design With Peta Kishawi

Date: Saturday 16th March
Time: 10am - 12.30pm
Cost: $55
Level: Foundation
 

Join local artist Peta Kishawi for this foundational workshop. Perfect for newcomers and young artists, as well as those looking to reconnect with their craft, participants will be taken through a series of illustration exercises exploring storytelling through simplification, exaggeration, and imagination.

 

The exercises will encompass the key techniques of story-driven illustration with a focus on character design. To achieve this, we will:

 

Discover the importance of mindset.

• Learn how to integrate an effective workflow in your practice.

• Encourage a non-critical process. 

• Align your skills with your vision and learn to appreciate what emerges from the gaps in-between. 

 

Move from observation to imagination and back again!

• Learn how to ‘see’ with the goal to ‘know.’

• Uncover stylisation and simplification. 

• Utilise strong shape language to elevate key features. 

 

Draw from your own memory and experience.

• Learn how to utilise personal connection and authenticity.

• Discover how your preferences, experiences and habits influence the identity of your work. 

 

Participants will finish the workshop with a series of experimental sketches and a final pen and ink illustration. This session will have a focus on using line and tone on paper, however the concepts can be applied using any drawing medium. You are welcome to bring your own equipment. There will also be pencils, pens and paper available to use if you wish.
 
Peta Kishawi is a multidisciplinary artist who works across traditional and digital mediums to create effective story-driven illustrations. (See her portfolio at bottom of page). With an artistic practice spanning across both visual art and performance disciplines, Peta is interested in the overlap of art forms to evocatively engage audiences. Her work focuses on story-driven design, with a specialization in character and concept development. Stylistically, Peta draws inspiration from graphic novels, animation, and children’s book illustrations, appreciating above all else the freedom and wonder of drawing from imagination. Peta encourages and upholds a positive mindset-driven practice as the key to artistic improvement and satisfaction. She finds joy in encouraging every artist's journey as it evolves. Through her work, Peta has created illustrations for the promotion of many theatre productions in collaboration with Observatory Theatre, Robert the Cat, Vena Cava, and more. 

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Instagram: @petakishawi