Sketchbook Creation: Find Your Own Language
A course by Santiago Guevara , Illustrator and Painter
Joined May 2012
Experiment and explore the possibilities of drawing something new every day
Joined May 2012
Sketchbooks have played a key role in human history and countless artist’s works, from the renaissance until today. Artist and illustrator, Santiago Guevara, has already filled several with sketches and drawings, and in this course, he will help you to find your own visual language, resulting in your very first artist's book.
With Santiago, you will learn all about the tools, materials, strategies, and techniques to develop a new and original illustration project.
What will you learn in this online course?
12 lessons & 19 downloads
- 96% positive reviews (579)
- 13,379 students
- 12 lessons (1h 25m)
- 19 additional resources (13 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
An artist’s book that combines the explored visual languages from your different sketchbooks. These notebooks will include work that results from the exercises proposed in the course.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Illustration students, beginners, and any other person that has a passion for drawing and the urge to keep a daily sketchbook.
Requirements and materials
Previous knowledge is not necessary to do this course.
As for the materials, you will need notebooks of different sizes with different kinds of paper and binding. Also, pencils, charcoal, stylograph, oil pastels, hard pastels, colored pencils, and markers are needed.
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Santiago Guevara
A course by Santiago Guevara
Illustrator Santiago Guevara graduated with a degree in graphic design from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, Colombia. He combines his work as a freelance illustrator–primarily for children's books and young adult literature–with a teaching position in the art department at the Pontifical Xavierian University.
He has collaborated with magazines, newspapers, publishing companies, and both national and international clients. To date, he has published and co-authored numerous books with a variety of writers and companies, including Corazón de león by Antonio Ungar, Los irlandeses by Jairo Buitrago, La gata sola by Carolina Sanín, Soy asesino y padre de familia by Fabio Rubiano, and Los 16 motivos del lobo by Amalia Moreno.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation Who am I?
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My influences
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What will we do in the course?
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U2
The shape
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Format
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Kind of paper
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Hybrid formats
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U3
The technique follows the function
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Think technique
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Pass by looking. Field drawing
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To experience. Let yourself be surprised
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U4
Thematic
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There are themes that persecute us
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Genre Dissection
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Mashup
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FP
Final project
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Drawing books: find your own language
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FAQs
You’ll learn mixed media drawing techniques, character creation, graphic storytelling, material experimentation, and how to develop your artistic identity using sketchbooks as a creative space.
Yes, this course is designed for those with basic to intermediate skills who want to deepen their experimentation and visual storytelling techniques in sketchbooks.
You’ll need sketchbooks, pencils, technical pens, markers, watercolors, charcoal, oil pastels, various papers, and collage materials. The course encourages experimenting with whatever you have on hand.
The course teaches you how to combine pencils, inks, watercolors, and collage on the same page, giving your sketchbooks more expressiveness and visual variety.
Yes, you’ll explore creating characters from geometric shapes, textures, and stains, and layering elements to develop original visual ideas.
It includes timed exercises, blind contour drawing, quick field notes, and methods to capture movement and emotion in characters and scenes.
Yes, the course covers calligraphy and typographic experimentation for titles, alphabets, and integrating writing with drawing in your sketchbooks.
I enjoyed Santiago Guevara's course in illustration and sketching. Even though I was, unfortunately, not able to listen to the original language, the English language option, which was AI-translated and narrated, was clear enough to follow. A nice short course to follow and enjoy, I got inspired to do a lot with it. Thank you.
Me encantó, curso recomendado.
Super Kurs! Santiago vermittelt sehr anschaulich seine Kreativ-Techniken – empfehlenswert!
Me encantó este curso. Muy Creativo y Sencillo en su explicación. Recomendable
Sehr inspirierender Kurs!