Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab
What will we do in the course?
A course by Joan X. Vázquez , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“In this course you will make an artist notebook, in which we will delve into our processes and will help us to store a large number of images that we can apply in other types of projects. The course aims to practice different ways of linking drawing with rational and emotional processes. All these exercises will be part of a cosmos to create content that comes from a careful observation from our inner world. As they are open processes, you can return again and again to solve and deepen the exercises, always from different perspectives.”
In this video lesson Joan X. Vázquez addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, 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
“WHAT WILL WE DO IN THE COURSE? Since you know more about me and my influences, now we will see what we will do in the course. Here we will explore the different possibilities of sketchbooks for personal exploration. This course arises from the desire to share some of my processes with you that I discovered with my sketchbooks. In them I explored and discovered new universes that have allowed me to see new options that I can replicate in my personal and professional work. Here we will delve into different resources that come from the observation drawing, from free figuration, of memory, of t...”
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Course summary for: Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab
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Category
Illustration -
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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