Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
Thinking outside the box as normal
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
About the video: Thinking outside the box as normal
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to question everything. We are going to ask ourselves what normality is and we are going to learn techniques to help break routines. My job when I post vignettes on Instagram or work on a book is to ask the reader questions, to ask the right questions that lead him to his own reflection. At no time do I pretend or want to indoctrinate or speak of great truths. I think our job is to ask questions. Creative work connects directly with this continuous action of asking if everything we have learned and the world around us could really be otherwise. Now I'm going to teach you techniques that will help you ask yourself different questions. ”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: Thinking outside the box as normal, 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
“Thinking outside the box as normal In this lesson we will see the importance of thinking outside the box, how to think outside the box, of what the English have called "think out of the box". In the 70s and 80s, the consultants played a game to their clients showing them nine dots and challenging them to connect those nine dots only with four lines, without lifting the pencil from the paper. It was a way of inviting them to think differently, because lateral thinking is used to solve it. Lateral thinking will help us in the activities we develop to look at things in a different way, with wh...”
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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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