Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
Self-provocation
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi , Illustrator, Author, and Designer
About the video: Self-provocation
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to write words that are part of our life, positively or negatively, that are important to us. We will make two lists: one in which there are those that we like and another in which there are those that we do not, to find the first sentence that leads us to the idea of our project.”
In this video lesson Raúl Nieto Guridi addresses the topic: Self-provocation, 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
“Self-Provocation In this lesson, we'll make word lists of words that we like and dislike to kick-start the process of self-provocation. Words are part of our life. Though our biography is filled with moments, unwittingly, usually, those moments can often be reduced to words. The thing is you need to find the word that represents that moment. Within the positive words, I like doing a word list for moments I've lived that made me feel good. One of those words, for instance, could be "friendship." I like using charcoal as a tool because it makes me feel free. When you use a pencil, it's like i...”
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Course summary for: Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
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Category
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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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