Sketching Techniques Specialization

Overview

“Have you ever spotted a figure in a stain on the wall, a coffee cup ring, or a blurred photo? Maybe a face, a dog, or a horse in the clouds? This is called pareidolia—our brain's instinct to find familiar patterns in random shapes. In this session with Felix Scheinberger, you'll explore why we do this and how it can inspire creativity in your drawings. But why are we doing this? ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Pareidolia Exercise , which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketching Techniques Specialization. Explore the power of sketching alongside top-notch drawing masters..

Partial transcription of the video

“I wanted to tell you about a super interesting perceptual phenomenon called pareidolia. And pareidolia is a weird word. It came from the Greek. And it's a perceptual phenomenon that things just appear if we see patterns. For example, if we sit outside in the grass and look at the sky and see the clouds. And sometimes we see a cloud and see, oh, it reminds me of a sheep or a horse, maybe a face. From our perspective, things appear in our mind because we see a form. We create these things in our mind. And I tell you about this phenomenon because it's such a super good and useful and interesti...”

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Course summary for: Sketching Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
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• 8832 students
• 9 units
• 94 lessons (15h 44m)
• 51 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Artistic Drawing, Botanical Illustration, Character Design, Children's Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting