Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe

Exercises to promote imagination

A course by 72kilos , Illustrator and Cartoon Artist

Illustrator and Cartoon Artist. Bilbao, Spain.
Joined May 2015
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4,704 students
Audio: Spanish, English
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About the video: Exercises to promote imagination

Overview

“Now I want to encourage you to work your imagination with various techniques that I have developed over the years. Although I love to sit back and think and let magic happen in my notebook, I find much more satisfaction if I sit back and try to apply any of these techniques. ”

In this video lesson 72kilos addresses the topic: Exercises to promote imagination, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe . Combine texts and images to create comic strips that tell a simple, powerful and heartfelt story.

Partial transcription of the video

“Practice: Stimulating your Imagination WHAT IS SELF-LOVE? IT’S LIKE OTHER TYPES OF LOVE, BUT MORE IMPORTANT. Now, we'll go through a number of different exercises that I usually do to stimulate my creativity, my imagination, and get some ideas that I can then use for my strips. The idea here is that you have a good time. There are no rules. This is merely recreational, a whole game that's going to happen in our notebook so we can revisit it later when we get an idea or when we're feeling stuck, like the idea in front of us isn't going nowhere. These activities, these games are something I u...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (148)
  • 4704 students
  • 4 units
  • 12 lessons (2h 21m)
  • 4 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop, Procreate
  • Areas

    Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Instagram, Social Media, Traditional illustration

72kilos

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A course by 72kilos

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Illustrator and Cartoon Artist

Óscar Alonso, better known as 72kilos, is an illustrator and cartoon artist. He uses his drawings to recount the events of his day-to-day life and share his inner universe with nearly two million followers on Instagram. Thanks to his inspiring illustrations, he has collaborated with big-name brands such as adidas, Amnesty International, and the Spanish Red Cross.

He also has thirteen years of experience working in creative advertising, where he developed the ability to quickly generate lots of new ideas and adapt them to contexts with limited time and space. This experience also gave him the skill set he needed to successfully launch and develop his career as an illustrator.


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Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe . Illustration course by 72kilos

Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe

A course by 72kilos
Illustrator and Cartoon Artist. Bilbao, Spain.
Joined May 2015
  • 100% positive reviews (148)
  • 4,704 students