Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
Descriptive self-portrait
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
About the video: Descriptive self-portrait
Overview
“In the previous lesson we have talked about how the Ikigai can serve as a tool to know what we want to do in life, to be able to establish motivational goals. Now we are going to discover how we are to be able to move towards that goal: we are going to do an introspection exercise through a self-portrait, using drawing and text.”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: Descriptive self-portrait, 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
“Descriptive self-portrait How are you? Is everything okay? In the previous lesson, we set the goal what is our motivation. And in this exercise, in this lesson, let's see what our ship is, how we are, to reach precisely that goal. And for this we are going to make a self-portrait, but it will not be a self-portrait as you are imagining, we will not draw our eyebrows, our eyes, our mouth, but we will make a self-portrait of what we really are inside. We are going to describe ourselves with completely subjective data. In the self-portrait we are going to work with written data how we see ours...”
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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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