Illustration for Creative Minds: Reinventing the Ordinary

Illustration for Creative Minds: Reinventing the Ordinary

“Dear student, we have reached the end of the course. I hope it has been very useful and that you have enjoyed it as much as I did. In the journey that we take in this course we move from what we considered limits, that is, the first clock we draw, boring, known and used a thousand times, towards the search for more unique, specific, and effective variants, in tune with history or the concept we want to talk about as authors. Then we first obtained a range of possibilities that we did not know, in that instance we used drawing as a thinking tool, we obtained unusual, unexpected combinations, which were the fuel for the creation of ideas and metaphors, with which we realized, that we can talk about any topic. In my final illustration, I used a clock to talk about destiny, specifically about agency. The idea is that there is a possibility of consciously modifying the passage of time, although this implies incurring in the realm of fantasy, it is a valid way of giving an opinion about what free will and construction is for me. of destiny within the possibilities that a context gives us. I hope that this way of working has inspired you, especially when there is no urgency to solve the illustration, to understand that research and investigation is fundamental. I will be attentive in the forum to consultations, to exchange experiences and all your work. We are in touch! Christian”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project We reached the end of the course. We will recap a little where we come from and what we have been doing. The first thing was to introduce myself and after that I told them a little about my influences and who were the people who taught me to think. After that we move on to the course project where I told them what we would do and what the final project would be. In a first unit it seemed important to convey what is, from my point of view, the difference between drawing and illustrating, something key in relation to our trade. We also saw how important it is to remove preconcep...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Creative Minds: Reinventing the Ordinary

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (160)
• 1848 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 13m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration