Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
Creativity, communication and neurons
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
About the video: Creativity, communication and neurons
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to define what creativity is. We are going to discover why many of us stopped drawing as children and then I will show you what is the process that I follow from the moment I start looking for an idea until I publish it.”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: Creativity, communication and neurons, 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
“Creativity, communication and neurons Before starting the lesson, I tell you that I have always drawn, I have always been interested in the world of ideas and creativity and I've always tried to get closer to that world to discover where ideas come from. This coupled with the fact that it is very difficult for me to follow routines in my life has made me research creative techniques to try to discover new ideas and get a little out of the most hackneyed or trite ideas, try to discover that, through exercises, which are like the exercises in a gym, you can have some results athlete, but cere...”
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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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