Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
Find a story and simplify it
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
About the video: Find a story and simplify it
Overview
“To generate ideas that are understandable and reach more people, we will need to simplify them, and make them understandable, connectable and empathetic. With stories, with storytelling, the same thing happens: we need to build stories by taking away what is left over or adding elements that facilitate their connection. In this lesson we will learn that the stories that best connect with others are those that they too have lived in some way in their life and recognize as their own patterns. Having lived it only leaves us open cables to be able to connect with our readers, but they are not a guarantee that this story will produce interest. To do this, we will make a turn or represent a point of view that surprises, captures attention or makes people reflect. From there, we will simplify it.”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: Find a story and simplify it, 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
“Find a story and simplify it In this lesson we will learn to simplify stories. To generate ideas that connect with people we have to always make them understandable, connectable and empathetic. With stories it is exactly the same. We must be able to imagine a story and to be able to make them understandable, that connect with people and generate empathy, that generate an emotion as well. How will we do it? First of all, what is important is to know that history. If you have lived that story, you can tell it first hand, and that will simplify your work a lot. What we will actually do when we...”
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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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