Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners
Hand warmer
A course by Puño , Illustrator and Educator
About the video: Hand warmer
Overview
“It is very important to warm up the hand before facing any drawing, either amateur or professional. I will offer you some dynamics that will help our brain to get into the appropriate zone to be able to draw and for our hand and wrist to visibly improve their psychomotor skills.”
In this video lesson Puño addresses the topic: Hand warmer, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners. Reconnect with your creativity and improve your drawing skills no matter your level.
Partial transcription of the video
“Handwarmers In this unit we'll finally leave behind the rules and approach drawing in an even more ludic way. I've put together techniques and dynamics which train each of the aspects we need to improve as artists, so in this first lesson we'll start with some handwarming exercises. I call them handwarmers because, obviously, they warm up our hands and wrists in a psycho-motor aspect, but they also serve to enter that special part of our brain, that altered state of consciousness we enter when we start drawing. Let's look at the first, called dandelions and ripples in the water. I've called...”
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Course summary for: Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners
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Design, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration

Puño
A course by Puño
Puño has been a professional illustrator since 1994 and it was just three years later that he also began his career as an educator specializing in creativity, illustration, and graphic storytelling. He has extensive experience in desktop publishing and created and managed the publishing house Ultrarradio from 2010 to 2013. He was also director of the One Year Illustration and Graphic Novel course at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid and curator of the Madrid City Council's exhibition series La Ciudad en Viñetas between 2012 and 2015. He received the 2018 Barco de Vapor Award and the 2009 Fundación SM International Illustration Award, among others.
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