Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
Influences
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to review some of the artists I admire and continue to learn from about how they communicate using drawing as a graphic and textual language. Each one contributes different things, but something common to all of them is that, when I met them, each of them opened a unique and different world to me. All of them have used illustration and drawing not only as artistic expression, but as a language in itself to communicate things. And they all speak from humor, irony or a different and surprising look.”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas. Train your creativity by doing simple exercises and discover tools to tackle your next drawing project.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson I will show you some of the artists that have influenced me the most and whom I deeply admire because they have always worked from the point of view of the illustration and the text. Above all I am interested in showing them and sharing them with you because they are all artists who in a different way from another, each in their own way, they have opened different worlds to me and they have shown me ways to do different. Maybe what they all have in common is that they have used mainly the drawing and the illustration not only as an artistic expression, but as a mea...”
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Course summary for: Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
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Areas
Creativity, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Javirroyo
A course by Javirroyo
Javier Royo Espallargas, better known as Javirroyo, is an illustrator, designer, and professor who holds a fine arts degree from the University of the Basque Country. His specialty is taking complex ideas and boiling them down into simple yet thought-provoking illustrations bordering on the abstract. The aim of his work is to tell stories and discuss topics like death, sex, love, friendship, and topical issues. In 2020, he won the Gràffica Award, which every year recognizes the top ten creative professionals in Spain's visual culture.
In addition to running the illustration and design studio Chispum, he currently collaborates as an illustrator and cartoonist for El País, El Semanal, Visual, La Maleta de Portbou, Uppers, El Meteorito, and El Estafador. When he's not drawing, he's teaching others how to do so as a professor of illustration and design at the Open University of Catalonia, Eina, IDEP, and BAU. He is also a board member and the head of education at Foundawtion, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting and developing education and architecture in Africa. His latest published books include Martín Berasategui y David de Jorge, La Tortilla de Patatas, La Escuela, Grandes cócteles del mundo, Life is Sho, Homo Machus, and Laborachismo.
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