Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners
Drawing of the natural (more or less)
A course by Puño , Illustrator and Educator
Reconnect with your creativity and improve your drawing skills no matter your level
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About the video: Drawing of the natural (more or less)
Overview
“In this lesson I will propose an exercise to be able to copy an object from nature, instead of a photo, in the least painful and most satisfactory way possible: drawing a crumpled paper ball. ”
In this video lesson Puño addresses the topic: Drawing of the natural (more or less), 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
“Drawing from life (roughly) This lesson is called "Drawing from life, roughly", and you'll see why. A very decisive and important moment for an artist is drawing from life, because of everything we mentioned earlier. Because it's a way of generating new problems, of finding solutions to those problems and of storing new information which we will need in order to become expert artists. In academic drawing, we normally copy a classical plaster cast sculpture, which is excellent for learning anatomical proportions and shading. But it is a very frustrating and hard exercise, which I recommend y...”
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Course summary for: Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Design, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Puño was born in Madrid in 1978. He has worked as an illustrator since 1994 but didn't actually take it seriously until 2005. He is the author of several book illustrations, both for children and adults, and has published books of all kinds, including some with his poems.
He has worked in different professional fields, such as advertising, media, and animation. In his spare time, he creates a street photography series. He has lived in Madrid, A Coruña, and Paris, working for a long list of clients including Coca-Cola, Nike, Greenpeace, TEDx, BBVA, Telefonica, ING Direct, Ono, El Mundo, Kalandraka, Nobrow 8, and more.
In 2009, he won the SM Foundation International Illustration Prize and the First Creacomic CAM 2009 Award. Since 2011, he has coordinated and directed several courses in illustration and creativity, including at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid.
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