Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

Overview

“It is time to delve into the content of some of my observation notes. When I'm traveling or out for a walk, I take advantage of the pauses to sharpen my gaze and try to capture situations spontaneously. In these quick drawings is where I can study the form, the gestures, the characteristics and the expressiveness of some objects and people. In these types of notes I find a very strong temporal link, since every time I turn to them, memories of when I was drawing come back to me and I again perceive sounds, smells, colors and even flavors that I thought were lost.”

In this video lesson Joan X. Vázquez addresses the topic: Register the present, 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

“REGISTER THE PRESENT I'm going to show you some notebooks where I record the present. In this case I work with small format notebooks because it allows me to draw with them in a much more efficient way. In this case I work with the materials that are in hand, mainly pens, markers, colored pencils or bicolor pencils, because it allows me to make some quick annotations and after contrasting with the color to highlight some parts of the drawing that I would like to be more striking. I work from observation. I try to draw without seeing the notebook so much, in this case paying attention to som...”

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Course summary for: Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

• Level: Beginner
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• 2160 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 16m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook