Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab
Notebooks and processes
A course by Joan X. Vázquez , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Notebooks and processes
Overview
“I want to show you some of my notebooks, their content and you will see how these notes not only allow us to record and relive moments of our personal history and work processes, but also work for us to stimulate our curiosity and ingenuity.”
In this video lesson Joan X. Vázquez addresses the topic: Notebooks and processes, 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
“NOTEBOOKS AND PROCESSES Since we were able to review some formats and tools to work on the sketchbook, I want to talk to you about why they are important to me. My notebooks are a very important space because I can do many experiments to grow in my personal and professional work. In them I can make annotations that later I can use in other types of projects. I made a small classification from the content I see that it is mostly repeated in my notebooks. It is a personal classification, it will not be any theory, It is the way in which I have been observing the content within them. The first...”
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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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