Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners
Visual Metaphors
A course by Puño , Illustrator and Educator
About the video: Visual Metaphors
Overview
“Not everything in this course is going to be about training the eye and the hand: it is also necessary to enrich our ideas, because a skilled hand without a creative brain behind it rarely draws something interesting. We are going to use metaphors, a literary resource that also has its visual version.”
In this video lesson Puño addresses the topic: Visual Metaphors, 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
“Visual metaphors The course isn't all about training our eye and hand, we also need to enrich our ideas, as a very skilled and trained hand with a bored brain behind it, will rarely create interesting drawings, while the opposite often happens. So in this lesson we'll work on visual metaphors. A metaphor is a figure of speech of the thoughts via which a concept is represented through a different one, establishing a relationship of similarity between them. It is not only used in literature or poetry, but we have also turned them into cultural conventions that we use every day. For example ti...”
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Course summary for: Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
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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