Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
Descriptive self-portrait
A course by Javirroyo, Illustrator
About the video: Descriptive self-portrait
Overview
“In the previous lesson we have talked about how the Ikigai can serve as a tool to know what we want to do in life, to be able to establish motivational goals. Now we are going to discover how we are to be able to move towards that goal: we are going to do an introspection exercise through a self-portrait, using drawing and text.”
In this video lesson Javirroyo addresses the topic: Descriptive self-portrait, 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
“How is everyone doing? All good? In the last lesson. we defined our motivation's goal. Now. in this exercise and lesson. we will build on that foundation to further explore and deepen our understanding of what drives We are going to figure out what our ship represents and how we will precisely achieve that goal. For this. we plan to create a self-portrait. However. it won’t truly be a self-portrait as conventionally understood. as you are imagining. We won't sketch our eyebrows. eyes. or mouth. but instead. we'll craft a of our true inner selves. We'll depict ourselves using entirely subjec...”
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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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