And, finally, my book is out!

It’s called Godô dança. Godô is short for Godofredo and dança means dances. It’s a children’s book. The story is about dog considered to be lame and boring until we discover that it… dances! Dança is the first book of at least ten, each about a different action, such as cooking, spying, etc.

The godofredo.org site (portuguese only) has a blog about animals, activities pdfs, a glossary of terms used in the book and a gallery section with photos and/or artwork from readers.

The book is already distributed nationwide (Brazil) and can be found in all the major bookstores.

Its ISBN is 978-85-204-3103-0 and the publisher is Editora Manole.

Both story and illustrations (and design) are mine.

The illustrations are vector over acrylic paint and/or china ink.

This is an exercise for the Illustration and text interpretation course at Centro Cultural São Paulo.

Assignment: to create a few illustrations, without any kind of text, respecting the narrative structure of a fairy tale: absentation / confrontation (with evil) / counter-action (good beats the hell out of evil, evil dies) / celebration.

This should read as following:

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

1, 2: absentation
3: evil
4, 6, 7: counter-action
8: evil dies
9: celebration

Technique:

1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9: non-solved watercolor + permanent ink pen -> cut and paste over Kraft paper -> cut and paste over black foam board;

3, 8: non-solved watercolor over black foam board.