Fine Line Tattoo Design: Symbolism and Magic
Making Your Personal Grimoire: Signs, Symbols, Sigils, and Archetypes
A course by Christian Castañeda , Visual and Tattoo Artist
Joined January 2019
Joined January 2019
About the video: Making Your Personal Grimoire: Signs, Symbols, Sigils, and Archetypes
Overview
“So that you can develop your own symbolic language, I will first explain what a grimoire is, a sigil and the differences between signs and symbols. I will also briefly tell you about the archetypes, and then I will show you different notebooks that I use in my daily practice. With this information you will find a lot of material to start generating your personal codes. ”
In this video lesson Christian Castañeda addresses the topic: Making Your Personal Grimoire: Signs, Symbols, Sigils, and Archetypes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fine Line Tattoo Design: Symbolism and Magic. Learn how to conceptualize your ideas and create your own catalogue of symbols to enrich your personal tattoo style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Making your personal grimoire: signs, symbols, sigils and archetypes Next I am going to talk to you about what a grimoire is. A grimoire is a book or manual usually linked to magical knowledge. That's why our sketchbook I have thought of it as a grimoire. In it you will deposit all the symbols, the stains and all the drawings you make from now on to function as your personal library. The more drawings you make, you will have more visual references for your final design. In the last lesson we worked with spots, But now I'm going to teach you how to complexify those spots to translate them in...”
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Course summary for: Fine Line Tattoo Design: Symbolism and Magic
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Creativity, Design, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Tattoo Design, Traditional illustration
Christian Castañeda
A course by Christian Castañeda
Christian Castañeda is a Mexican visual and tattoo artist with more than a decade of professional experience. She studied art at "La Esmeralda" Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado as well as photography at the Centro de la Imagen. A large part of her work is based on research into metaphysics, space, silence, and alternate realities, to create designs filled with powerful meaning.
Throughout her career, she has participated in over 30 exhibitions across Mexico and abroad, as well as festivals and art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Canada, and Copenhagen. Her collaborations include work for brands like adidas, Vans, and Netflix Latinoamérica. She also cofounded Estudio Flo alongside Andrés Gómez Servín, where they develop graphics and design projects that give free rein to the imagination and artistic creativity.
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