Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
Concept map
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
About the video: Concept map
Overview
“One way to search for new concepts is to make a concept map. In this way, we can get to refine or discover ideas that were originally hidden, but that, thanks to the map, we can discover. In this lesson we are going to develop an illustrated concept map from a topic.”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: Concept map, 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
“Concept map In this lesson we will play explorers. We will look for ideas through a map, but it will not be through a treasure map, although almost, but through one of concepts. What we will do is generate a concept map where we try to squeeze a topic to the maximum, with all its detail, with all its nooks and crannies, to try to get new ideas, ideas that may not have occurred to you at first. This technique that comes from "design thinking", in a way of thinking visually, We will use it to reach places where we could not go otherwise. How will we do it? Very easy. We will think about the i...”
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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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