Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
Tame chance to get new ideas
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
About the video: Tame chance to get new ideas
Overview
“Chance is a great generator of new ideas. In fact, there are great discoveries throughout history that were generated thanks to mistakes. In this lesson we will force chance. We will try to make things happen, that ideas arise from mixing other seemingly distant ones ... We will associate ideas by chance; And the results will surprise you!”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: Tame chance to get new ideas, 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
“Tame chance to get ideas In this lesson we will learn to tame chance to generate new ideas. We will domesticate it because chance, as you well know, happens just because, but we will force it because really if we get results that may seem somewhat haphazard and connect them randomly, we will obviously achieve unpredictable results. Let's play with that surprise. Chance did its thing in history, especially in the world of inventions and discoveries. For example, Alexander Fleming invented the most powerful antibiotic we know of, penicillin, because of being a real mess in his lab. The guy le...”
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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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