Drawing Specialization: From Fundamentals to Artistic Expression

Course summary

• M1: Introduction and Inspiration

  • Introduction

  • Inspiration / Fist

  • Inspiration / Javirroyo

  • Inspiration / Fist

  • Inspiration / Gusti

  • Inspiration / Fortuna Studio

  • Inspiration / Fist

• M2: Drawing for beginners level -1

  • The notebook is a garden of ideas and memories

  • The hand, eternal model

  • Doodles 1

  • Doodles 2

  • Collage with cellophane

  • Games for various proto-drawers

  • Geometric shapes, your new best friends 1

  • Geometric shapes, your new best friends 2

  • What does a lemon feel?

  • Prosopography and ethopoeia

  • Games for two (or more) fearless cartoonists

  • Restrictions and challenges

  • Urban notebook 1

  • Urban notebook 2

  • Drawing people

  • Games for packs of cartoonists

• M3: Creativity techniques: a gym of ideas for drawing

  • Creativity, communication and neurons

  • Procrastinate, think, draw and share

  • Find your weirdness, find your motivation

  • Descriptive self-portrait

  • Analyze your capabilities and your limitations

  • Connecting concepts

  • The importance of conceptualizing and simplifying stories

  • Concept map

  • A mutant form

  • Taming chance to get new ideas

  • Express ideas from different emotions

  • Finding a story and simplifying it

  • Thinking outside the box as normal

  • Turning an image into many graphic ideas

  • Playing a tennis match with concepts

  • Breaking the rules

  • Communicating ideas through different media

  • Humor is the king of creativity

• M4: From beginner to supercartoonist

  • The notebook, a faithful friend

  • Composition and visual weight

  • Action of lines and geometric figures

  • Perspective in drawing: basic rules

  • Proportions

  • Shadows and depth

  • Life drawing (more or less)

  • Hand warmer

  • Blotted line

  • Visual metaphors

  • Mini drawings: one day, one topic

  • Show yourself to the world

• M5: Drawing techniques to overcome the fear of the blank page

  • The notebook as a space of freedom

  • Telling stories by drawing

  • The blockade: our great ally 1

  • The blockade: our great ally 2

  • The Materials family

  • imperfect portraits

  • Learn to count with your eyes

  • Portraits with collage

  • Animals with pen and ink

  • Fantastic cars

  • Inclusive stories: disabling the classics

  • Creating our story 1

  • Creating our story 2

  • Drawing and human relations

• M6: Creative drawing with oil pastels

  • What will we do in the module?

  • The day to day that surrounds us

  • What materials are we going to use?

  • Testing materials

  • Blind drawing

  • The doodle as a starting point

  • Sketch and color proof

  • Outlined

  • From the inside out

  • Lines and final details

• M7: Drawing and creativity for little great artists

  • Recharge your brain!

  • Photo safari

  • What do we name it?

  • Let's invent a character

  • Drawings to warm up your hand and brain

  • Gestural and corporal expression

  • Building animals with geometric shapes

  • Album of drawn photos

  • Primary and complementary colors

  • Photographing abstract landscapes

  • Homemade multi-color printing

  • How to set up an exhibition

• Final project

  • Creative Drawing Specialization: From Fundamentals to Artistic Expression