Sketchbook Creation: Find Your Own Language
Mashup
A course by Santiago Guevara , Illustrator and Painter
Joined May 2012
About the video: Mashup
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to do something very fun, we are going to mix notebooks so that we can create new results from their different languages.”
In this video lesson Santiago Guevara addresses the topic: Mashup, 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
“Alright. we've covered genre dissection using notebooks. with each notebook symbolizing a specific this lesson. we will explore the concept of a mashup. The term mashup originates from the blending of two songs. creating a new track that sounds like a single cohesive piece. What is the goal of this exercise? To take two seemingly different languages and mix them to see what happens. I have these two notebooks. One notebook is for masks or characters. and the other is for life drawing. First of all. These two drawing experiences differ not only visually but also in feel. One offers a smoothe...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Sketchbook Creation: Find Your Own Language
-
Category
Illustration -
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.
- 95% positive reviews (574)
- 13,126 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
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever