Creative Sketchbooking: Explore and Play with Illustration
Drop your hand and look again
A course by Alejandra Acosta , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Drop your hand and look again
Overview
“In this lesson we will do a series of quick drawings as a warm-up. Ideas will pour out like a magician's hat!”
In this video lesson Alejandra Acosta addresses the topic: Drop your hand and look again, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Sketchbooking: Explore and Play with Illustration. Create a professional, illustrated idea log and discover your artistic vision through playful exploration and creative exercises.
Partial transcription of the video
“Drop your hand and look again Now it's time to start with our creative exercises for our notebook and I'm going to explain a modality which I love to use whenever I feel a creative block and that helps me a lot to generate interesting and very unexpected solutions. I call this exercise "The Wizard's Hat" because it has a lot of surprise, it is very unexpected and it helps me a lot to generate creative associations. For me, within illustration, association is something very important to generate especially unexpected solutions and that they are very useful when you have a blank mind facing a...”
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Course summary for: Creative Sketchbooking: Explore and Play with Illustration
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Areas
Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketchbook, Watercolor Painting
Alejandra Acosta
A course by Alejandra Acosta
Alejandra Acosta is a Chilean illustrator known for her undaunted exploration of visual techniques and languages in her art and the books she illustrates. After earning a degree in graphic design, Alejandra spent several years working as an art director before deciding to pursue her passion for illustration full time.
With more than a decade of experience, she's found success as a professional illustrator and has an extensive portfolio showcasing her diverse illustration styles. She has collaborated with many of the big names in publishing including Jekyll & Jill, Zorro Rojo, Barbara Fiore, Amanuta, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Sexto Piso, Carthusia, Loqueleo, Planeta, and Random House.
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