Sketchbook Creation: Find Your Own Language
Think technique
A course by Santiago Guevara , Illustrator and Painter
Joined May 2012
About the video: Think technique
Overview
“If I thought of the notebook as an architectural space, I would think of it as a private room. Maybe a bath, or just the shower. It is, to a certain extent, where it fits in the form of drawings and texts, my intimacy. It is also where I record what I see around me, what I think of him, how I remember him, how I imagine him or pieces that I tear from him. In this lesson, I will tell you what should be taken into account when making the decision about the technique I use in my notebooks. When taking them everywhere we must be very smart making this choice in order to preserve the drawings very well. ”
In this video lesson Santiago Guevara addresses the topic: Think technique, 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
“In Unit 2. we covered the format. and now we'll delve into technique. This notebook here is a section of a journal or travel diary from 2019. as you can observe. It's essential to understand how these elements come together to enhance your writing skills. To create a travel notebook or a travel journal. it's important to think that if you had to choose an architectural space that resembles the notebook. it would be your own room. perhaps even the most intimate place in the house. perhaps even the most intimate place within the house. In this sense. we can explore new languages. experiment. ...”
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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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