Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook

Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook

“Before we say goodbye, we are going to review the key phases of the project. It would be great if you briefly explain what you have done in each one and accompany the explanation with one or more images. Ideas and history Look for the essential concepts of your project through self-provocation. Play with objects and words to find inspiration and stick with three key concepts that serve as a starting point to generate ideas and stories.

Graphic identity Look for the graphic identity of your project through a specific idea. Bring those concepts you have decided and apply them to the two-dimensional space of the book to create diverse and surprising compositions. Also decide what the story is going to be and how you are going to tell it. That is, choose the format to do it and make a storyboard. Characters Now comes the time to create the characters, both the protagonist or protagonists and the secondary ones. Clearly establish the psychology of your characters by giving them a part of you. You will also have to define how the protagonists relate to each other and what the space in which they will move will be like. In addition, plan the narrative of your project, defining the conflict that the protagonist will have and how he will resolve it. Cover The cover and first page of the book are key to attracting the reader's attention, so the next step is to sketch or think about what the front and back covers of your project will look like. Expressive possibilities and presentation format Finally, study the expressive possibilities of your project depending on who it is going to address, and consider different ways of formatting or presenting your project seeking maximum coherence, as we saw in Unit 5. Now share your final project with all of us by clicking on "Create your project". Remember to share both the final result of your notebook and the steps that have led you to it. I am looking forward to seeing your project and giving you feedback. Although I ask you for your patience, I will try to access the forum as much as I can and what my professional projects allow me. Finally, I want to invite you to actively participate in the forum, not only sharing your progress, but also giving advice and trying to help the rest of the community. It sure is very enriching! See you on the forum!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Now that we're at the end of this Domestika course, I hope you learned to unleash your creativity. Before I say goodbye, let's go over what we've learned. First, we delved deeper into illustration and creativity through three concepts: Identity, intention, and coincidence. Then we played with objects, words, and our life photos to find inspiration. Then, it was time to find our graphic identity based on a concrete idea. Then we decided on the story we'd tell and worked on our storyboard. Later on, we decided on the space and the plot for our project and how our characters woul...”

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Course summary for: Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 17m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration