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Natalia Nogueira
The look of María Natalia Nogueira, 35 years old, artist, Bachelor in Art and Design. Natalia has experience in engraving, painting, drawing, graphic design, and packaging design.
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Living the Design: The idea of this section is to document the diversity and mix of existing opinions over life, perspective, options, and design development at the professional and academic level around the world.
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Max: In respect to art and design, do you remember the moment when you said, this is what I want to do with my life, and why? What attracted you? What was your motivation?
Natalia: I have always enjoyed drawing a lot. As a young girl I looked at cartoons, concentrating especially on the drawing and dreamed of being a cartoon artist. In elementary school I remember drawing while I was supposed to be paying attention, and it was then that I drew a cat and felt very proud of my accomplishment. It’s a memory that stays ingrained in my mind, even now that I’ve developed a method to keep perfecting a drawing until reaching the desired result. I was to turn 9 years old and the cat wouldn’t have been such a big deal, but it made me discover a fascinating world. My parents recognized a certain quality in me and signed me up for the Bachillerato Bellas Artes (part of UNLP) where I took the exams and ended up being selected for admittance. There I learned everything I know about art, and it was there I learned that I cannot be 100% happy if I’m not drawing, like a physiological need.
"Digital art revived my desire to produce designs because in between school and work, there wasn’t a single moment of my life left for paintbrushes (in reality, paint and stamps)."
Max: In particular, how did you encounter digital art and how did you make the switch to it? What were you involved with? Do you feel in your element?
Natalia: I got into digital art by sheer chance. I have a family business and ever since I was a girl I participated in packaging design. During the years I completed all my works through airbrush and rotring pens until I bought my first Macintosh computer in 1996 and entered the world of design programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, among others. This was how I discovered the program Painter, that a few years ago was acquired by Corel, and started to create my first drawings with the help of a graphics tablet and magnetic pencil.
Digital art revived my desire to produce designs because in between school and work, there wasn’t a single moment of my life left for paintbrushes (in reality, paint and stamps).
This way, I have a little bit of time, even if it’s only a half hour. I sit and draw something, I save it and pick it up at another time, and I don’t have to clean paintbrushes or bother with materials.
Digital art granted me the greatest satisfaction.
Max: Natalie, in the formation of a designer, according to your opinion, what should be emphasized in the context of accelerated changes?
Natalia: I believe the basic information they teach us in art school, how to master the command of color, form, proportion, composition, calligraphy, communication, and the handling of artistic materials; we also have to add the use of new technologies related to design.
If today we count on new tools that simplify the work methodology of the past, the eye must be trained to employ a correct use of these tools.
Max: What is your ideal work environment, do you work in a group? What other areas enrich your work?
"I believe the basic information they teach us in art school (..) we also have to add the use of new technologies related to design."
Natalia: I have always worked alone and I don’t know if I’d be able to work in a group. I like to be calmly seated, silent and very focused, listening to soothing music.
My work improves when I listen, when I read, when I see. I enjoy history a lot; I like to incorporate antique details in my drawings. When I listen to music I try to interpret the message and if it finds its way to my heart, a drawing is born. I like to look at other people’s art and it could happen that I discover something I want to bring to my own works, for example I can take a palette of colors from some decoration or piece of clothing.
I enjoy the discovery of art in everything I see, whether it be objects, pieces of furniture, drawings, clothes, stickers. We live surrounded by art!
Max: In the development of your work, what limitations do you encounter among your clients or at the professional level?
Natalia: For now, none.
When I first started I felt the rejection of a few colleagues who underestimated my artistic capability and gave all the credit to my computer. I can’t deny that it unsettled me to admit I worked with the comp and then witness the faces they made.
Today I can say that I feel confident about what I do and I have the satisfaction of having gained the respect of many artists who have learned to accept this new tool.
Max: What do you like to work with today in software (no more than two), in hardware?
Natalia, combines digital painting, typography and motion graphics.
Natalia: Corel Painter, Macintosh.
Max: Briefly, from your experience with digital design, what do you hope for the future in regards to printing, books, and the use of paper?
Natalia: Today I am satisfied with the copies made in photographic laboratories. There are many types of papers and canvases on which we can experiment with our works. Large-format plotters have succeeded in reaching an optimal quality of impression that only a little bit ago was done by the smallest equipment.
Max: How is music serving you in your work?
Natalia: I can’t work if I don’t listen to music. I like everything but when I draw it has to be calm music, classic or Celtic.
Drink me & eat me by Natalia Nogueira
Respecto al arte y al diseño ¿Recuerdas cuándo dijiste eso es lo que quiero hacer en mi vida y porqué”?¿qué te atrajo?¿cuál fue tu motivación?/
Siempre disfruté mucho del dibujo. De chica miraba los dibujitos animados concentrándome especialmente en el dibujo y soñaba con ser dibujante de cartoons. Recuerdo en el colegio primario que dibujaba mientras debía prestar atención, pero fue allí que dibujé un gato que me hizo sentír muy orgullosa de mi logro. Es un recuerdo que está muy gravado en mi ya que descubrí la forma de ir perfeccionando un dibujo hasta llegar al resultado deseado. Tendría 9 años y el gato no habrá sido gran cosa pero me hizo descubrir un mundo fascinante.
Mis padres habrán visto en mi alguna cualidad y me anotaron en el Bachillerato Bellas Artes (perteneciente a la UNLP) en donde rendí los exámenes y quedé seleccionada para el ingreso. Allí aprendí todo lo que sé de arte, y allí fue donde aprendí que no puedo ser 100 % felíz sin no dibujo, como una necesidad fisiológica.
Communicatheo recommends:
http://www.natalianogueira.com.ar/
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Volunteer translation by Ashley R. Gonzalez
Ashley R. Gonzalez currently attends the Ohio State University in the United States and will graduate with two majors in Spanish and World Literature next summer, 2010. She has academic experience in Mexico and the United States. Furthermore, because of her Mexican heritage, she has been exposed to the Spanish language from an early age. If you want to contact her for work, please write to joboard@communicatheo.com
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