Artistic Illustration: Draw from Your Imagination
Think and feel
A course by Fito Espinosa , Painter, illustrator, and plastic artist
About the video: Think and feel
Overview
“I will teach you the method I use to develop a very simple idea in a sketch that represents personal truth. I am going to explain a method that has more to do with poetic creation, and with that way of creating by opening our senses and listening to our emotions. And it refers to thinking an idea and letting it cause a feeling in us, in such a way that I allow myself to have an emotion that will bring me another idea about it. ”
In this video lesson Fito Espinosa addresses the topic: Think and feel, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Illustration: Draw from Your Imagination. Connect with your emotions and learn to depict them in symbolical and personal pictures.
Partial transcription of the video
“Thinking and feeling In this lesson I'll show you the method I use to transform a basic idea into a more complex concept that somehow represents a personal reality. When I was studying painting, I was in the habit of writing texts to help me in my creative work. It was like an exercise in which I tried to write ideas that would transform into poetic texts that helped me to understand myself, in some way, and to understand what I wanted to capture in my works. This kind of routine started to become a kind of method, you could say, because I realized that the way in which I used it was to try...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Illustration: Draw from Your Imagination
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Fito Espinosa
A course by Fito Espinosa
Fito Espinosa has been painting and drawing for 25 years. In recent years, he has focused on developing images for different communication campaigns. In his work, he explores the emotional and mental worlds to translate them into images oriented to the search and understanding of the world and ourselves.
As a visual artist, he has exhibited his work on more than ten individual exhibitions and as many collective ones and has won several painting competitions. He has published five books of his own and has done innumerable illustrations for magazines, newspapers, and various publications, as well as for communication campaigns. In addition, he has an extensive line of engravings and another line of ceramics. His work can be found in his gallery located in Miraflores, Lima; also in other galleries, design shops, and on his website.
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