Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
Influences
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi , Illustrator, Author, and Designer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“To create our artistic universe it is essential to analyze what things are important in our life and how they have influenced. In this lesson we will see some things that have marked my career and have served to inspire me in my day-to-day life.”
In this video lesson Raúl Nieto Guridi addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook. Discover strategies to develop your graphic identity by learning to draw with words and to write with pictures.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Today, we'll go through the influences that inspire my creative process, my work. Let's take a look. I have five different blocks that influence me in one way or another. When I feel things, when I'm with my friends, I'm listening to their stories and we share a moment, that influences my entire process; it's then possible that a story comes out of that. My family is really important. They support me in every project. It's a really special moment in which they're pretty critical, and I appreciate it greatly. Reading is important. Yes, reading, ladies and gentlemen. You have to re...”
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Course summary for: Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Raúl Nieto Guridi
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi
Raúl Guridi is an illustrator, author, and designer specializing in the field of children's literature and poster design for cultural campaigns for theater, dance, and puppet theater. He studied painting in the fine arts department at the University of Seville.
Raúl has published more than 70 books which have been translated in many countries such as the United States, Italy, France, and Russia. His projects have earned him multiple awards including the 2015 Spanish National Prize for best picturebook for El Rebaño, honorable mention from the judges' panel at the Bologna Children's Book Fair for the picturebook Dos Caminos, the "Serra d'Or" Premio de la Crítica award for Un pèl a la sopa (2019), and the 2021 Premio Banco del libro de Venezuela for Cómo meter una ballena en una maleta.
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