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My name is Liandro Roger, I'm a cartoonist and teacher. I create drawings and comics - sometimes playing a bit with animation too. I teach about art, design and creativity.
I'm one of those few people who never stopped drawing. As a child, I had fun creating characters and copying illustrations from Disney movies and Monica's Gang comics. When I was still a teenager, I started receiving my first "commissions". But things started to become professional around 2006, when I was graduating in Advertising.
I worked with illustration, graphic design and art direction, in agencies and as a freelancer. Then, I started giving drawing classes to children, and this led me to open Oficina de Desenho, my studio-school that operated until 2013, when I had the chance to become a professor at the UFC (no, not the fighting championship - it's the Federal University of Ceará), where I work until today. I got a master's degree in Communication studying webcomics and have taught classes in basic drawing, cartooning, character design, art direction and design history. Currently, I coordinate "Clube do Sketch", a project that brings together a community of artists in training and seeks to foster a culture of drawing inside and outside the university. I am also taking a PhD in Psychology, researching drawing and creative thinking in relation to the environments I pass by.
But it wasn’t my academic journey that shaped my artistic work. Over the years, I studied “self-taught” through online art platforms such as Schoolism, Proko, New Masters Academy, Iconic and Revolution. I also had the opportunity to experience courses, mentorships, workshops and personal feedback sessions with talented artists such as Stephen Silver, Stan Prokopenko, Iliya Mirochnik, Hiro Kawahara, Renato Alarcão, Daniel Brandão, JJ Marreiro, Anchises Queiroz and William Barreto. Standing on the shoulders of these giants and with persistent practice, I gradually felt my artistic path take shape and direction.
In recent years, I have had the honor of participating in important exhibitions, such as the Salão de Humor de Piracicaba (SP) (one of the most influential international exhibitions of comic drawing) and the thematic exhibitions “How Funny! Beethoven in caricatures, cartoons and comics” and “Beethoven, Du bist der Grösste!” in the cities of Bonn and Koblenz, Germany.
Since 2018, I have maintained working partnerships with Proko (USA), an online school for arts training. There, I launched a video lesson of my own about creative ideation techniques. Until 2023, I also collaborated by creating illustrations for videos and serving people from different parts of the world in online critique/portfolio review sessions. I am currently developing my first complete course on this platform.
And I keep drawing! What moves me is telling humorous stories using a simplified, iconic and expressive visual language: cartooning. I draw practically every day and I'm always looking to learn and evolve.
...that is, when my boy allows me to have time for myself at all! 😅
