Illustrated Diary: Fill Your Sketchbook with Experiences
Vital notebook concepts
A course by David Morales , Architect and Illustrator
About the video: Vital notebook concepts
Overview
“In this lesson I will explain why I am passionate about vital notebooks and I will tell you about the daily practice of drawing.”
In this video lesson David Morales addresses the topic: Vital notebook concepts, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Diary: Fill Your Sketchbook with Experiences. Learn to use your sketchbook as an illustrated journal by exploring ink drawing with the cross-hatching technique.
Partial transcription of the video
“Concepts for Our Sketchbook Journal In this lesson, I'll show you what it means to me to keep a daily journal, draw every day, and store memories in sketchbooks. I'll show you this sketchbook I have here, which I worked on during one of our trips to Barcelona when we lived in Colombia, encapsulating memories of a month of travel. The sketchbook begins with the day we arrived in Barcelona, on Christmas, with a bit of the atmosphere at home, the places we were visiting day by day. It was winter, and we had this lighting that you don't see in Colombia, a winter light. This is something I alway...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Diary: Fill Your Sketchbook with Experiences
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration

David Morales
A course by David Morales
David Morales is a Colombian architect and notebook artist based between Barcelona and his hometown of Ibagué. It was in architecture school that he began drawing in his notebook, trying to understand the proportions and material quality of buildings that he found interesting. Gradually, these notebooks became an inseparable element of his travels and his architectural work.
In 2018, he started an art project called ""One Day One Drawing"" in which he depicts his surroundings, family, and concerns on a daily basis. He has also created book covers for the publishing house Planeta, Spain and for Taller Talante, Colombia.
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