Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

Overview

“Free figuration consists of expressing through line drawings, spots, textures, cuts in a casual way. We can interpret or start from sounds, rhythms, emotions, go testing with materials or tools that allow greater ease in the strokes. I use these types of annotations when trying to break the monotony in my work. Sometimes, while taking a break between projects, I start to imagine what form a piece of music, a memory, a smell, a feeling can have. This is another way of observing, but starting from the interior and from the non-figurative interpretation. ”

In this video lesson Joan X. Vázquez addresses the topic: Free figuration, 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

“THE FREE FIGURATION I also have other types of notebooks in this case where I work with free figuration, the one that will allow me to work more expressively without necessarily seeking to give a complete result. In these notebooks what I do is interpret sounds, smells, textures, emotions, sensations, anything that is not necessarily tangible or that it is not corporeal and make an interpretation from it. In that notebook I allow myself to be experienced in an open way with different tools or different materials, make combinations that I can't find in other notebooks, feel free to express d...”

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Course summary for: Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

• Level: Beginner
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• 2180 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 16m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook