Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
Connecting
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi , Illustrator, Author, and Designer
About the video: Connecting
Overview
“Finally, we are going to look in our box of found objects (curious objects that have caught our attention in some way and we have saved) and in our photo album, to provoke or evoke some moment of our life. Serendipity is what should guide us to continue in the search for the main idea of our project.”
In this video lesson Raúl Nieto Guridi addresses the topic: Connecting, 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
“Connections In this lesson, we're going to connect everything we have. We have photos, our list of words, and our objects. You should have everything you're using on the table, because you can't lose sight of the whole during the process. We have photos, word lists, and objects. In this case, I'll start looking at each of them, trying to connect them to the words we have. I have the globe, which I can connect with "journey." It can also be related to destiny, even to weariness. I have a photo with my brother, where the word "time" takes center stage. Or the word "sharing" or even the word "...”
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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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