
Georisell's Creative Journey
2/12/2025 | 4m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
Meet Georisell Vasquez Soto, a Puerto Rican artist from Scranton
Meet Georisell Vasquez Soto, a Puerto Rican artist from Scranton whose passion for painting, digital art, and storytelling has shaped her creative journey. In this episode of VIA Short Takes, she shares how her love for sketchbooks, Japanese manga, and family heritage fuels her work. From ballpoint pen sketches to fantasy storytelling, Georisell proves that art is for everyone, no matter the tools
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Short Takes is a local public television program presented by WVIA

Georisell's Creative Journey
2/12/2025 | 4m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
Meet Georisell Vasquez Soto, a Puerto Rican artist from Scranton whose passion for painting, digital art, and storytelling has shaped her creative journey. In this episode of VIA Short Takes, she shares how her love for sketchbooks, Japanese manga, and family heritage fuels her work. From ballpoint pen sketches to fantasy storytelling, Georisell proves that art is for everyone, no matter the tools
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipMy name is Georisell, and I am an artist from Scranton, Boricua, and I like to do a lot of things with different kinds of art.
My mom has always said that I was born with a crayon in my hand, and I've been painting since I was little.
I've always been a girl who goes from one place to another very fast, and that shows a lot in my art.
I do a lot of styles.
I do painting, I do sketchbooks, I do digital things.
Even when I was little, I painted on the walls.
When I left school, every afternoon, I would run to watch television.
And when I saw television, it had stories that I wanted to do, and I made my dolls, and I kept painting, and I kept growing.
You don't have to have a lot of things, you don't have to have a lot of money to start doing art.
You can do art with a highlighter and a pencil on top.
For me, that's one of my favorite things to do.
I take the sketchbooks, I can take a highlighter, or I can take something light, and I paint on the bottom, and I take a pen from anywhere, whether it's ballpoint, or any style, and I paint on top, and that's all you need to do something that's your own art, that's your own books.
Sketchbooks are something that I love to do because it's more natural.
I feel like I can say things without being afraid to hide something.
It's more of what's inside of me.
I've always liked Japanese comic books, and I find that a lot of my inspiration comes from that.
I started reading it, and I loved it, and that's been a lot of my inspiration, because I like the lines, I like the stories.
It helped me to be inspired to do more fantasy stories, more characters stories, anything that you don't see all the time, also inspired by real things.
The Hispanic family is always together, and my grandmother and my mother and I, many generations of women, we are always together, and we always loved each other a lot.
And since my grandmother passed away, it has been my mother and I. I want to tell the story of the relationship between mother and daughter.
That can be fantasy, it can be reality, it can be something that touches many people.
I have planned to do it traditionally with pens, but later I will try to put it online too, to show the story to more people around the world.
It's good to plan the story first, because even though you can take things and write them down and plan how you're going to do things, it's important that the person who's going to read this knows where they're going to put their eyes.
For example, on this page, there are going to be words here, and you have to follow how the person is going to read it.
And use art to show people where to go next on the page.
I think it's very human to be able to make art and be able to tell your own stories.
To be able to show people what you've done and where you've been.
For the future, there are many things that I want to do.
I want to make a graphic novel, I want to be a teacher.
I want to teach what I know, but I also want to teach the love of art.
What gives you the spark.
Short Takes is a local public television program presented by WVIA