Alphabet of native flora, fauna and fungi
from central argentina
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This outreach material was born from a Public Science Communication course where two colleagues had to think about how to bring native biodiversity knowledge into the classroom
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Given that most learning alphabets contain species that belong nowhere near Argentina (or even South America, really), they came up with the wonderful idea of making an illustrated alphabet entirely filled with native animals, plants and fungi.
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Thus, when I entered the project, the material was pretty much developed except for two groups: pill bugs and bumblebees. Lovely!
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At this point, I didn’t have that much experience with digital illustrations, so when I look back at these I want to re-do them so badly. However, I hold this project so close to my heart that I will forever display it proudly in my portfolio.
Here is the full-color alphabet (in Spanish)
(click to see them full size)
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Best part? It is free for download here
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The second part of the project consisted of adapting all illustrations to coloring pages. It might seem like an easy linework task; however, it was not that simple.
Most of the illustrations were done (beautifully) in watercolors and pencil. And kids… kids need structure. They need boundaries.
Therefore, we had to adapt complex shapes into simpler, clearer, easy to fill drawings that any kid in pre-school could tackle.
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The result was so awesome that an independent editorial decided to edit it physically (the coloring pages were also – and still are – free to download), so we published it!
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