Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
A mutant form
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
About the video: A mutant form
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to start from an archetypal representation: starting from the figure of the human body we are going to represent apparently distant ideas. We will also mix the representation of the body with different themes to get unexpected results. We are going to experiment, to play with apparently dissociated ideas and we are going to mix them through drawing.”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: A mutant form, 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
“A mutant form In this lesson we will talk about how to get ideas starting from an archetypal form. An archetypal form can be a form agreed by all. For example, the representation of a person is a body and it is an archetypal form. Or an arrow would be another archetypal shape that it is consensual and that we all understand it as such. To start with, I will show you images throughout the story related to the archetypal. For example, the first one I show you, that you will remember because I talked about her in the influences part, it is an image where human bodies are shown, human represent...”
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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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