Sketchbook Creation: Find Your Own Language
My influences
A course by Santiago Guevara , Illustrator and Painter
Joined May 2012
About the video: My influences
Overview
“Throughout my life I have been faced with many and different influences, in this lesson I will introduce you to the artists, illustrators and cartoonists who captivate, move and inspire me.”
In this video lesson Santiago Guevara addresses the topic: My influences, 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
“Well. now that you know me. let's talk a bit more about my influences. Throughout my life. i have been close to many different influences. As a child. i was a bit limited to what I saw at home. Popeye. knights of the Zodiac. captain Tsubasa. My parents noticed my passion for painting and drawing as child. so they enrolled me in oil painting classes. enrolled me in oil painting classes. There. i encountered Impressionists like Claude Monet and Post-Impressionists such as Van Gogh. as teachers always noticed my interest. that for me. it's very important to draw quickly. Anyway. i've always wa...”
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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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