Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
The importance of conceptualizing and simplifying stories
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
About the video: The importance of conceptualizing and simplifying stories
Overview
“In this lesson you will discover the importance of empathy in daily work. I will also show you how to think visually and we will see some systems of graphical representation that work as tools in the form of graphs and diagrams, allegories, analogies and abstract analogies, analogies and allegories that will help you conceptualize.”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: The importance of conceptualizing and simplifying stories, 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
“The importance of conceptualizing and simplifying stories In this lesson we are going to learn how to conceptualize and simplify stories. It is a very interesting process and that has a lot to do with empathy. Empathy for us to get an idea is to put ourselves in someone else's shoes and this means knowing in a deep way the world of the other. Empathy is a tool that is super important when illustrating. When we receive an order from a client, we must know very well what is the world we should represent, with which we have to empathize with very different worlds. Empathy is a fundamental elem...”
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Course summary for: Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
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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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