Sketchbook Illustration for Collecting Ideas
Opening your eyes, look beyond
A course by Catalina Bu , Illustrator
About the video: Opening your eyes, look beyond
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you how to become aware of your own interests, the way you perceive your environment, what catches your attention and what motivates you according to your history, your work, etc. I will tell you about my personal experience with industrial design and how that influences my interests with objects in general.”
In this video lesson Catalina Bu addresses the topic: Opening your eyes, look beyond, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook Illustration for Collecting Ideas. Learn how to create detailed illustrations by experimenting and revealing your ideas.
Partial transcription of the video
“Opening Your Eyes, Looking Beyond WORLD In this lesson I'll show you how I work on a project from the start, that is, with observation. But first I'll share what we'll do in this course. First we will observe, then we will create a sketchbook that we'll project into an illustration that we can transform into different formats. First, with an observation exercise, we will understand how our own creativity works. It's important to do this because nothing is drawn just because. There’s a reason for everything we do. That’s why this exercise is important, to see which objects surround us and in...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbook Illustration for Collecting Ideas
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook

Catalina Bu
A course by Catalina Bu
Catalina Bustos Mendoza, better known on social media as Catalina Bu, is a Chilean illustrator who is passionate about drawing and uses simple strokes to express big ideas and tell complex stories. She currently works as an illustrator for numerous publishers, brands and companies.
She has written four books (Diario de un Solo 1 and 2, Libro Libre and En Blanco) and co-authored another three (Gatos Gordos, Solo Necesito un perro and Un espacio vacío); her books have been translated to French and Portuguese. Her work also has been featured in individual and collective exhibits in Santiago de Chile, Madrid, Mexico City, Shanghai, New York and Bologna.
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