Sketchbook Creation: Find Your Own Language
There are themes that persecute us
A course by Santiago Guevara , Illustrator and Painter
Joined May 2012
About the video: There are themes that persecute us
Overview
“Reviewing my notebooks, after a few years, I realized that there were recurring themes. In this lesson we are going to identify those themes that appear again and again, we are going to make conscious what was unconscious. In this lesson, we will put our interests in order.”
In this video lesson Santiago Guevara addresses the topic: There are themes that persecute us, 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 the previous unit. we explored various techniques. and in this unit. we'll delve into the technical themes that consistently appear in our sketchbooks. When it comes to sketchbooks. we don't frequently address the underlying themes that persistently influence us. We frequently wonder what will be included in them. as we tend to arbitrarily jot down the things we wish to incorporate. These entries can take the form of notes. papers. or sheets. capturing our thoughts and ideas in They can be drawings of different types. I view the notebook as a pocket. much like a trunk where you store all...”
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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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