Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

“Dear students, we have reached the end of this course. Thank you for getting here, I can't wait to see your exercises! To do this, I will recap what we saw throughout the course. Choose your notebook Before starting to work, we reviewed the different formats and presentations of artist notebooks, we did tests with some materials that may be useful and you learned the importance of notebooks to be able to deepen our artistic processes.

Draw, draw and draw Later, I showed you in detail some of my notebooks and you also saw observation drawings to analyze details and gestures, others where I started from observing works by other artists to make annotations with drawings and text that I can later integrate into my work; Hence, I told you a bit about how lists allow us to have greater order in our organization and from them build relationships that make us imagine different possibilities through lateral thinking. Finally we practice free figuration as a resource to represent emotions starting from abstraction. Order out of chaos Then, we take care of organizing the chaos to give shape to the ideas, I shared a bit of the process that I used in the book Nada where I applied free figuration, which we also practice with the exercise of memories and Finally, we dedicate ourselves to observing a space and thinking about how to modify it by altering time. materializes the ideas and drawings In the last unit we went from ideas to planning possible uses that we can give to these contents, thinking about how to compile ideas and drawings that exist within our notebooks and I shared with you the creative process behind Caosmos , exhibition and publication, where I put the content of this course into practice. I recommend you keep practicing and always carry a notebook with you, don't forget to record not only what we see with our eyes, but also all that internal universe, which starts from our emotions and memories. I hope you have enjoyed, that many of the ideas that have emerged in your notebooks can evolve and become more complex projects.”

Partial transcription of the video

“FINAL PROJECT Before we say goodbye, I would like us to see a summary of everything you learned in the course. I showed you some of the different formats and substrates that exist in sketchbooks, we examine their materiality and we review the range of materials and techniques accessible to work. I showed you how sketchbooks are for experimentation, generate notes and document ideas. First I drew my present where I showed you what it's like to be on this side when recording my course. I appropriated a work that lives in a book to make my own version, reinterpreting and studying what is forei...”

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Course summary for: Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

• Level: Beginner
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• 2154 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 16m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook