Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
Turn one image into many graphic ideas
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
About the video: Turn one image into many graphic ideas
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to carry out the opposite process that we saw in the previous lesson, where we asked a lot of questions to an image. Here we will try to get graphical answers based on a single shape. In this way, we will explore all the possibilities you have.”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: Turn one image into many graphic 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
“Turn one image into many graphic ideas This lesson will be like doing sit-ups at the gym. I will propose a very basic way and from that way you will have to develop all the illustrations and drawings that fit you in ten minutes. You wonder why we do it. Because this will make them activate inside our brain certain parts and it will help us to think in a different way. These images are illustrations that will show us other ideas through themselves visually. And it is an interesting exercise for this very reason, because from an image we will get a whole universe of different and completely r...”
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Course summary for: Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
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Category
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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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