Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab
What are stones for?
A course by Joan X. Vázquez , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: What are stones for?
Overview
“Working from word lists is an easy way to record information when we don't have the time to draw pictures. It is also a way to expand our ideas by establishing relationships between things where drawing can distract us. Therefore, in this lesson, you will see the advantages of keeping track of your thoughts and emotions in a list format. ”
In this video lesson Joan X. Vázquez addresses the topic: What are stones for?, 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 ARE THE STONES FOR? The lists allow me to keep a more exhaustive record, when I don't want to draw or don't have the time to do it. I collect all the information that comes to my head or take notes of other texts that you find in the work process. Sometimes I don't use the drawing in my work because I can imagine the result and it can distract me from the result I want to achieve. I am looking for literary references. where I don't see the solution I want to get to, but they feed my imagination and I can find different solutions and this can give me more interesting mental images. As I...”
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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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