POST 1 INTRODUCTION: Brianna Pacheco

Self Portrait, Procreate

 

    Greetings everyone. My name is Brianna Pacheco and I'm currently majoring in BFA Illustration. It's mostly due to the fact that drawing is one of my hobbies and I enjoy being able to bring creative ideas to life. There are so many stories in my head that I not only want to flesh out but also illustrate them.

    I am generally a traditional artist. I started out with a pen but later switched to a pencil. Drawing with pencil is my preferred method because I feel that I have the most control over my lines and strokes when doing so. If I want to preserve my work, I'll ink it so it doesn't suffer from smudging or pencil lines fading. Rarely do I physically color a piece. Usually, if I want a drawing to be colored I put the work into a program like Procreate and color the work digitally. It is due to a lack of fear of messing up as a mistake can be undone digitally and the convenience of being able to change colors freely. I have tried colored pencils, acrylic paint, markers, gouache, and charcoal. Gouache is the only form of paint that I enjoy using due to its ability to be reactivated and lifted off from a piece if needed Charcoal is another material that I found myself enjoying using.

    What motivates me is Manga and Manhwa. They depict their stories through illustrations. Each has a distinct art style whether it be how the characters are designed, the shading techniques, the backgrounds, etc. Sometimes series may have a similar or exactly the same art style to another series due to influence or an artist working on more than one work. I enjoy viewing all the different styles of the artists. Some of the people who have profoundly impacted me are Lizbeth R. Jimenez, both author and artist of her manga series Sacred, and Katsura Hoshino, both author and artist of her manga series D.Gray-Man. Jimenez runs her own YouTube channel that centers around her manga series and tips for creating manga. Hoshino’s art style has developed over time as she worked on her manga.

Cow Witch, Photoshop

Young Self Portrait, Charcoal

Kitsune, Photoshop

Zelda, Procreate

Eliza, Pencil and Micron pen

Susan Sontag Quotes

"To collect photographs is to collect the world."

Photos are essentially still moments of time. If you capture the still moments of various places then you get the different perspectives of life happening all around us.

"Photographs furnish evidence."

As a photo captures a still moment, it presents the truth. That truth can be the current state of something or something that has happened.