Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab
A course by Joan X. Vázquez , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Learn how to use memory, abstract language, and wit to experiment and expand your visual vocabulary
Lose the fear of the blank sheet and discover drawing exercises that can unleash your creativity. With the help of illustrator and graphic designer Joan X. Vázquez, learn how to create illustrations by observing your environment and developing a personal bond with the image, generating unique illustrations that are full of character.
In this course, learn how to use the sketchbook as a creative tool and a space for experimentation. Explore the ideas that arise from memories, abstract language, and wit, and allow them to evolve in order to experiment and expand your visual language. Once finished, you will be able to create content in sketchbooks that can be applied to publications, exhibitions, or any personal or professional project.
What will you learn in this online course?
15 lessons & 38 downloads
- 100% positive reviews (127)
- 2,220 students
- 15 lessons (2h 16m)
- 38 additional resources (8 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish · Romanian · Indonesian
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Make an artist's sketchbook full of drawings, where you explore various themes and techniques that can be applied to publications, exhibitions, or a personal or professional project.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
This course is aimed at art enthusiasts, cartoonists, artists, illustrators, teachers, and anyone who wants to use drawing as a tool to unleash their creativity.
Requirements and materials
No previous knowledge is necessary to take this course, just curiosity and a willingness to experiment.
Regarding materials, you should have a sketchbook with paper that can withstand mixed techniques, colored pencils, watercolors, markers, India ink, brushes, colored or textured paper, glue, scissors, and any other material you have around and feel like using.
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Joan X. Vázquez
A course by Joan X. Vázquez
Joan Xavier Vázquez keeps a record in his sketchbooks of everything he observes, using them to understand and go deeper into complex subjects such as his emotions and thoughts. The illustrator, graphic designer, and teacher organizes workshops in his studio, Lapis, where he shares creative processes, generates questions, and diversifies perspectives.
Currently, he creates conceptual illustrations for magazines and books, as well as for for social and cultural projects.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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What will we do in the course?
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U2
The notebook as a rehearsal space
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The notebook as an object
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materials
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Notebooks and processes
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U3
Record the chaos
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Register the present
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Notes and appropriation
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What are stones for?
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Free figuration
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U4
From chaos to idea
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Interpret nothing
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I remember
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The space and time
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U5
From the idea to the artist book
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An invented museum
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Artist book? Chaos!
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FP
Final project
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Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab
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Muy buen curso para todos los que queremos experimentar en cuaderno y no sabemos por donde empezar!
Es muy bueno!
This class was very helpful and meaningful to me.
Muy bien!
really good course. It helps me so much with creativity