Art Toy Creation
Search for ideas
A course by Luaiso Lopez , Graphic Designer
About the video: Search for ideas
Overview
“In this lesson you will see the creation of lists as a basis to foster inspiration and make them your possible art toys. Ideally, inspiration comes spontaneously and from an unpredictable lightning in your head you can come up with an idea that you take as a starting point to get to work. But most of the time it is not like that, you often face the situation of having to create something, either on request or because you simply feel like it. To solve this situation, I will show you two options with which to encourage the appearance of that inspiration. ”
In this video lesson Luaiso Lopez addresses the topic: Search for ideas, which is part of the Domestika online course: Art Toy Creation. Learn how to design, build and model a unique and collectible 3D character.
Partial transcription of the video
“BRAINSTORM Now I'll explain how to make an art toy that's not just beautiful, but also has a message with which to express yourself. Sometimes you get a commission or you have a deadline or whatever and you have no ideas. In this lesson we'll learn how to overcome that artistic block and use some tricks to encourage that inspiration. It involves list creation. Write absolutely everything that enters your mind. We'll differentiate two kinds of things to write on the list. On one side, we'll have objects, which can be any object, animal, person, that kind of thing. On the other side, we'll ma...”
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Course summary for: Art Toy Creation
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Category
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Areas
Art Toys, Character Design, Sculpture, Toy Design

Luaiso Lopez
A course by Luaiso Lopez
Born in Alicante, Spain, Luaiso López is a graduate in graphic design at Espai Grafic and in desktop publishing at EASDA. He then started illustrating professionally and created his first collection of sculptures in 2014.
His first limited edition Zombie Mario sold out a few weeks after it was released in Singapore with Pobber Toys. He has participated in various exhibitions and has created Art Toy work for Museo TOPIC in Guipúzcoa, in collaboration with Kram. He designed a Zombie Popeye for Medialink for the character’s 90th anniversary. He was awarded the Contemporary Art Prize “Propuestas” in 2011 for his work as a photographer and illustrator.
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