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about tHe illustrator
It took Dina Danosa over four years to create the hundreds of pen-style line drawings that illustrate The Art
of Life Holy Bible .
The team at 2k/denmark envisioned an informative,
inspirational Bible that could be as inviting as a coffeetable book . Some people who have never read the Bible are interested in plants and animals, so creating
a Bible that illustrates them seemed like an excellent
way to make the connection . The team researched the
many plants and animals named in Scripture to create
an illustration list . And since many readers also find
Bible people intriguing, they chose a list of important
Bible characters to be illustrated . As they searched for
an illustrator, they discovered a young Latvian artist
named Dina Danosa .
Dina commented that it wasn’t easy to maintain a
consistent style for over five hundred drawings and
a time period of more than four years . She noticed
that her line style evolved over time, and that it was
somewhat hard to control . To ensure she wouldn’t
fall out of style, she regularly reviewed her earlier
drawings .
This was Dina’s first lengthy project and the first time
she has worked on art related to the Bible . She was surprised by how many different plants and animals appear . Each time she began a new piece, she was always
intrigued to discover where and how it appeared in the
text .
As a child, Dina liked to write and illustrate stories,
perhaps the beginnings of her passion for illustration .
But her professional work as an illustrator began only
about five years ago . Her first bachelor’s degree was in
advertising design, but toward the end of her studies
she began to realize she wasn’t very passionate about it .
At some point, she realized she only really felt at home
while drawing, so she decided to go back to study art
formally . First she graduated from Liepaja Art School,
Faculty of Painting and Illustration, where she realized
she wanted to be a professional illustrator . She then
enrolled in the Latvian Academy of Art and, in 2018, obtained a bachelor’s degree in graphic arts . She is now
working on her master’s degree .
In this project Dina used mostly Staedtler 0 .1 and 0 .5
Rapidograph pens and sketching paper . Dina actually
prefers to draw with ink, since it allows her to draw an
extremely thin line . Rapidograph pens cannot produce
lines quite as fine . However, drawing with ink goes more
slowly, while also risking spills . For all her rough sketches, Dina generally uses Rapidograph pens . But for this
project, she has stayed with the Rapidographs for their
convenience and reliability .
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