Sketchbook Creation: Find Your Own Language
Presentation Who am I?
A course by Santiago Guevara , Illustrator and Painter
Joined May 2012
Joined May 2012
About the video: Presentation Who am I?
Overview
“Before being an illustrator, I consider myself a Latin American cartoonist who finds in drawing a way to inhabit the world. In this lesson I will tell you how I realized that my experience as a draftsman, a profession that I had unquestionably in my heart, mind and body as a vocation, acquired new nuances when I was faced with the possibility of creating images that interact within books. You will learn how drawing books became part of my life and how they became an essential tool to decant my feelings, what I want to transmit and tell. ”
In this video lesson Santiago Guevara addresses the topic: Presentation Who am I?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook Creation: Find Your Own Language. Experiment and explore the possibilities of drawing something new every day.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hello. i'm Santiago Guevara. an artist. illustrator. and graphic designer. Discussing my artistic career. i must first mention the initial notebook I received at university. I grew very fond of reading through various materials. which greatly influenced my development and passion for art. shaping my journey profoundly. I attended classes with some essay and narrative professors. This sparked a flood of ideas and concepts I felt compelled to jot down and explore further. or rather. document meticulously in my notebooks for I started crafting a personal space beyond academia. where I could cr...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbook Creation: Find Your Own Language
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook
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.
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