Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab
Influences
A course by Joan X. Vázquez , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“There are many references that have marked my taste for drawing and illustration. Now, I will show you some artists who have piqued my interest in the creative world.”
In this video lesson Joan X. Vázquez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab. Learn how to use memory, abstract language, and wit to experiment and expand your visual vocabulary.
Partial transcription of the video
“INFLUENCES Since you know more about me, I invite you to review some references that marked my taste for drawing and illustration. I will start with marginal art. Roger Cardinal, an art critic, coined the term marginal art, translating it directly from the French term Art Brut, which was the one that Jean Dubuffet coined in the mid-1940s. With that, he tried to describe all art that was off-limits to official. He believed that all this fringe art in a way was very honest, very crude in how it was displayed. And that's why he became interested in what type of artists generated this type of g...”
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Course summary for: Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook
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.
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