Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
Our format
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi , Illustrator, Author, and Designer
About the video: Our format
Overview
“Next, we are going to select the format of our book; We will decide if it will be square, rectangular, round, if it will have something special, what type of paper, size ...”
In this video lesson Raúl Nieto Guridi addresses the topic: Our format, 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
“Our Formatting In this lesson, we'll talk about format. In all my projects, I’m so passionate about formatting. That's my editors' biggest nightmare. I'll walk you through some of the riskier projects that I've delved into, and I’ll be focusing on the possibilities a project can offer beyond the scope of what we think a book is. Let's talk about my project "Why's this Sardine on a Man’s Head?" Let me walk you through the concept. I used to work as a high school teacher in Punta Umbría, Huelva, and on my way to work, I'd see all kinds of things. One day, I’d clocked out really late, and I sa...”
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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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