Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab
materials
A course by Joan X. Vázquez , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: materials
Overview
“Now it's your turn to show you some of the material options that you can work with in your notebook. Do not forget that these are only suggestions, the idea is that whatever material or tools you use, do not stop experimenting during the course.”
In this video lesson Joan X. Vázquez addresses the topic: materials, 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
“MATERIALS I will tell you about my favorite tools to work on notebooks. Regarding the tools, I am going to start with the soft pencils, I have some very different from each other. The soft pencils allow you to work very loose lines, very expressive and we can work from accidents what is there when manipulating them, those stains that we make roughly or intentionally to make some shadows or delimit some shapes that help us in our drawings. I'm going to start with this pencil where we can see a little the type of finish we can have when handling it and we grab it almost horizontally. If we dr...”
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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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