Instagram: @pauladiaguiar 1. What's your story? Where are you from?Hi! I am Paula de Aguiar, I was born in Recife, Recife is in the Northeast of Brazil, a very cultural region, full of colors. I was a very imaginative and creative child, I loved playing alone or with friends, and drawing women from a magazine that came to my house every month, as a teenager I stopped drawing and decided to dedicate myself to photography, it was what I had decided to do, although I like to draw and always watch videos about digital illustration, I didn't get attached to the idea of being an illustrator, until one day I passed the entrance exam and started studying Visual Arts at the university in my city, in the same year that I started college, I went to the Instituto Federal of the neighboring city, I had a chair that was digital illustration and that's when I got involved with illustration again and here I am! 2. Tell us about your aesthetic.I love textures! I think the drawings I made of women in childhood influenced me a lot in what I do now, the Pernambuco/Northeastern culture also influences a lot what I do. 3. What is your favourite medium and why?I make sketches on paper and paint digitally, I love colored pencils and acrylic paint. 4. What is your artistic process like?I like to look for photographic references and also for music, films and animations and put everything that comes to mind on paper, whatever paper I find. I also record audios to remember an idea that came up to put in some project. 5. Who and/or what inspires your work?Photography, folklore and fantasy stories. 6. What role does art play in your life? How does it change the way you view the world?A way to escape from reality, I can create everything I want in drawing. I can invert the size of things, a big woman, a tiny house, I can take everything I am feeling without having to speak. 7. Where did you study?I did Computer Graphics at the Instituto Federal de Pernambuco (IFPE) and Visual Arts course at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) 8. Where do you see yourself in five years?I hope to improve my style and try new techniques and forms, I would also like to have completed an animation project for ANIMAGE (Pernambuco International Animation Festival) that has been in the drawer for two years, I would also like to get to know Latin America, drink a little of this culture that I love and that can add a lot to my work. 9. What about in ten?In ten? I hope to continue living from my art, to live far from the big city, in an interior surrounded by trees, with my dog, writing and illustrating children's books, I also hope to have matured as an artist, improved my trait, participate in incredible projects. 10. What do you hope to achieve with your art?I hope to continue doing this and I hope that people continue to like what I do because I like to do what I do. 11. Now, tell us a little more about you as a person: what is your favourite food?I really like sushi, also Brazilian and Mexican food, I love chocolate and Bolo de rolo from Pernambuco. 12. Favourite book?I couldn't choose a favorite, I will say four Coraline, Alice Through the Looking Glass, A Study in Scarlet and As melhores crônicas de Fernando Sabino. 13. Favourite genre of music?I love Brazilian popular music (MPB) and Latin American folk music. 14. What are your hobbies?I like to grow plants and ride a bike. 15. If you weren't an artist, what would you be?I really don't know, I can't imagine myself outside the art world. Comments are closed.
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