Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

Overview

“By carefully analyzing our records, we can begin to establish formal or conceptual relationships about what we decide to address in them. There are many themes that become recurring, our obsessions and desires are surely reflected in them. Let's take a look at our notebooks, let's select images or doodles that are in the margins, what can we find in them? How do they connect or coexist with other content? Are they part of the same universe? ”

In this video lesson Joan X. Vázquez addresses the topic: An invented museum, 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

“AN INVENTED MUSEUM In that lesson I'm going to show you how to form connections from themes, shapes, colors or another concept that has relation in our notebooks. My reference is the work of George Perec, was a French writer, especially the book "Thinking Classify", which gives a lot of guidelines to generate collections from different ways of thinking. In that book he enumerates a series of objects in an ingenious way, in many cases, in a very humorous way. He tells us how he is building collections and one of the exercises talks about how to generate rankings by checking word lists or rev...”

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Course summary for: Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

• Level: Beginner
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• 2154 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 16m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook