Travel Log Illustration with Mixed Techniques
A course by Iván CruzIllustrator
A course by Iván Cruz, Illustrator
Learn different illustration techniques to narrate your travels in a sketchbook
Looking for a creative way to collect memories and experiences? How about illustration? In this online course, illustrator and travel enthusiast Iván Cruz teaches you how to capture the people, places, animals, and things you come across during your travels using materials that fit in your pocket.
Learn a range of mixed techniques to bring your travels to life in the pages of a notebook. Warm up your hand with some exercises and see how to compose an illustration with your personal touch before sharing your artistic vision with the world.
What will you learn in this online course?
15 lessons & 17 downloads
What is a travel log?
3 minutes, 57 seconds
Basic exercises and mixed techniques 1
15 minutes, 50 seconds
How to approach the drawing?
6 minutes, 30 seconds
Conceptualization
6 minutes, 5 seconds
Color palette, illustration, collage and techniques 1
14 minutes, 50 seconds
Color palette, illustration, collage and techniques 2
14 minutes, 14 seconds
What's included in this course?
Begin your trip with Iván Cruz by getting to know him a bit better. He tells you about the life experiences that turned him into an "illustrated traveler" and encourages you to start carrying a notebook with you wherever you go.
Discover where travel logs originated from and the materials you need to make your own before warming up your hand with a few exercises. Iván then shows you his creative approaches to tackling the blank page.
Next, start planning your two-page entry and learn how to sketch, structure, and develop your composition—the more you do it, the more automatic the process becomes. Continue by sharpening your line work before adding color and integrating mixed techniques.
To tie everything together, your teacher explains the basic notions of lighting and framing to help you take inspiring photos of your illustrated pages. The only thing that's left to do is share your travels with the world!
What is this course's project?
Illustrate a two-page entry telling the story of a trip you took using mixed techniques.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Travel and painting enthusiasts who want to create visual memories of their experiences.
Requirements and materials
No previous knowledge is necessary to take this course.
As for materials, you need a travel notebook, watercolors, brushes, technical pens, colored pencils, and a few others that your teacher will specify during the course.
Reviews
- 5 months ago
Me gusta mucho la explicación y recomendaciones desde la experiencia a´si como tambien la manera que incentiva el probar y tener ciertas bases para cada práctica
- mvdeepaPLUS8 months ago
Inspiring!
- 8 months ago
Me ha encantado éste curso, no sólo es inspirador, sino también me ha ayudado para la composición de mi diario ilustrado
- 11 months ago
Davvero molto interessante, e le spiegazioni sono chiare.
- 1 year ago
curso delicioso! adorei!
His creative process revolves around observation and compiling content. After recording and illustrating everything that catches his eye, Iván then uses mixed techniques to share his personal experiences with the world.
Content
- U1
A dialogue between colleagues
- About Me
- Influences
- U2
Why a blog?
- What is a travel log?
- Materials
- Basic exercises and mixed techniques 1
- Basic exercises and mixed techniques 2
- How to approach the drawing?
- U3
Travel and illustrate
- Plan the page
- Sketch, layout and structure
- Conceptualization
- Color palette, illustration, collage and techniques 1
- Color palette, illustration, collage and techniques 2
- Color palette, illustration, collage and techniques 3
- U4
Share your trip with the world
- Final photograph
- Publishing and Social Media
- FP
Final project
- Travel Log Illustration with Mixed Techniques
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FAQs
An art journal is a notebook where artists record ideas, creative processes, memories, and personal reflections. It serves as a tool for self-discovery, documentation, and visual exploration, allowing you to experiment with techniques, storytelling, and materials in creative projects.
Yes, this course is designed for those with prior drawing or illustration experience who want to deepen their skills in mixed media and visual storytelling applied to art journals.
You’ll need a journal or sketchbook, graphite pencils, portable watercolors, technical pens, alcohol markers, refillable brushes, cotton paper, recycled materials, and personal objects or keepsakes to glue and incorporate into your pages.
You’ll learn mixed techniques like watercolor, graphite, technical pen, collage, alcohol markers, gradients, character sketching, visual composition, artistic recycling, and how to blend traditional media to enrich your journals.
Autobiographical visual storytelling is achieved by weaving in memories, personal objects, photos, texts, and anecdotes throughout your journal pages, creating unique visual stories that reflect your experiences and emotions.
Yes, the course includes techniques and tips to start an art journal, overcome the fear of the blank page, and spark creativity through practical exercises and personal exploration.
Yes, the course encourages using recycled materials and found objects as part of the creative process, teaching you how to incorporate them to add value and originality to your work.