Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
Procrastinate, think, draw and share
A course by Javirroyo, Illustrator
About the video: Procrastinate, think, draw and share
Overview
“Now we are going to see why procrastination is an important phase in that creative process that follows when thinking, illustrating (or doing any other activity) and sharing.”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: Procrastinate, think, draw and share, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas. Train your creativity by doing simple exercises and discover tools to tackle your next drawing project.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson. we delve into the creative process utilized for generating and sharing ideas. It is to note that this process consistently comprises four distinct stages. The first issue is procrastination. discussed earlier when dealing with absorbing vast amounts of information. Next comes critical thinking. followed by the skill of illustrating concepts clearly. and finally there's the act of sharing knowledge with others. How do they operate? They work in a cycle. When we share. we loop back to procrastinating. thinking. illustrating. and sharing. However. sometimes we find ourselves st...”
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Course summary for: Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
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Creativity, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

Javirroyo
A course by Javirroyo
Javier Royo Espallargas, better known as Javirroyo, is an illustrator, designer, and professor who holds a fine arts degree from the University of the Basque Country. His specialty is taking complex ideas and boiling them down into simple yet thought-provoking illustrations bordering on the abstract. The aim of his work is to tell stories and discuss topics like death, sex, love, friendship, and topical issues. In 2020, he won the Gràffica Award, which every year recognizes the top ten creative professionals in Spain's visual culture.
In addition to running the illustration and design studio Chispum, he currently collaborates as an illustrator and cartoonist for El País, El Semanal, Visual, La Maleta de Portbou, Uppers, El Meteorito, and El Estafador. When he's not drawing, he's teaching others how to do so as a professor of illustration and design at the Open University of Catalonia, Eina, IDEP, and BAU. He is also a board member and the head of education at Foundawtion, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting and developing education and architecture in Africa. His latest published books include Martín Berasategui y David de Jorge, La Tortilla de Patatas, La Escuela, Grandes cócteles del mundo, Life is Sho, Homo Machus, and Laborachismo.
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