Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab
Artist book? Chaos!
A course by Joan X. Vázquez , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Artist book? Chaos!
Overview
“Now I will share with you in more detail the process of my project Chaosmos , in addition to that we will make some reflections on the exercises carried out in the notebook and I will give you some clues about its possible later uses.”
In this video lesson Joan X. Vázquez addresses the topic: Artist book? Chaos!, 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
“ARTIST BOOK? CHAOSMOS! By now, I hope your notebooks be they a chaos, a cosmos or a "chaosmos". Years ago I received an invitation from Vertigo Gallery, a space specialized in illustration in Mexico City. They invited me to do my first solo exhibition, where I received this commission and did not know where to start. So the anxiety, the excitement, began to invade me, Since I didn't know where to start, what I did was go through my notebooks, especially in which there were some topics that may interest me. Discomfort manifests itself when we start a new project. "Finishing a work is a feat,...”
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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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