Creative Artist's Diary: Define Your Visual Language
A course by Armando MesíasArtist
A course by Armando Mesías, Artist
Awaken your creativity by experimenting with materials and new ideas through drawing, collage, and watercolor
Accidents, mistakes, or the unexpected can lead to new creations. For an artist like Armando Mesías, who regularly experiments with different materials and visual languages in his work, without play there is no creativity.
In this course, learn how to express yourself with experimental techniques through your artist's diary. Explore your own language through new materials and unusual approaches and travel down unexpected paths to gain visual and manual flexibility.
What will you learn in this online course?
15 lessons & 23 downloads
What Will We Do in This Course?
2 minutes, 59 seconds
Media and Materials
3 minutes, 48 seconds
Techniques
3 minutes, 56 seconds
Classification of Materials
3 minutes, 4 seconds
Creation of Spots
7 minutes, 11 seconds
Drawing: Objects and Spaces
11 minutes, 56 seconds
What's included in this course?
Meet Armando and understand how his professional, academic, and travel experiences have all influenced his work. Discover where he finds inspiration, which ranges from modern painting to pop culture, and see his biggest influences.
Then, start experimenting with different materials, techniques, and formats that you’ve never worked with before. Learn how to search for your own avenues of expression through abstraction and immerse yourself in a creative process revolving around trial, error, and unexpected answers.
Now it’s time to create your journal and let your creative side wander. Start by combining materials and painting blotches and spots. Next, loosen your hand muscles with some drawing exercises, create a sketch, and combine it with the final result in the same piece to reveal your discoveries, decisions, and creative process. Then, play with collage and compositions and add some final touches to give it cohesion and a defined style.
Finally, take pictures of your creation so you can digitally edit it. Cut out your work and try some of Armado’s tips for sharing it on Instagram in a way that not only showcases the final result, but also your research, materials, and creative process.
What is this course's project?
Create an artist's journal for your plastic experiments that walks the line between artwork and diary and reflects your process of exploration and learning.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
For all types of creative minds that want to spark their imagination and discover a new visual language.
Requirements and materials
You don’t need any prior experience, just be open to exploring new techniques and possibilities.
For this course you need some traditional materials like ink and colored pencils, and some more alternative ones like oil, spray paint, and coffee. You also need a journal, a camera, and a computer with Photoshop.
Reviews
- 15 days ago
Excelente curso.
- 3 months ago
Molto creativo! Tante idee!
- 4 months ago
Kurs otwiera umysł na nieodkryte przestrzenie i pobudza wyobraźnię. Na dodatek dał mi dużo radości. Prowadzący pozostawia dużo przestrzeni na własne eksperymenty bez narzucania określonego przez siebie stylu. Dla niektórych może to wada kursu, dla mnie to zaleta.
- 4 months ago
Ein sehr inspirierender Kurs. Habe dadurch eine andere Herangehensweise und gute Ideen erhalten. Vielen Dank
- 6 months ago
Un buon corso. Lo consiglio!!
The aim of his work is to start conversations that can only be approached from subjective experience. He thrives off experimenting with different visual languages like oil painting, drawing, or collages, as well as different materials ranging from traditional staples to mediums you’d never expect.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- Presentation
- Influences
- What Will We Do in This Course?
- U2
Classification of Materials
- Media and Materials
- Techniques
- Classification of Materials
- U3
Development of Pieces for the Notebook
- Creation of Spots
- Drawing: Objects and Spaces
- Drawing: Portrait and Figure
- Composition and Collage
- Last Added 1
- Last Added 2
- U4
Registration and Digital Publication
- Registry
- Digital Edition
- Publication
- FP
Final project
- Creative Artist's Diary: Define Your Visual Language
What to expect from a Domestika course
Learn at your own pace
Enjoy learning from home without a set schedule and with an easy-to-follow method. You set your own pace.
Learn from the best professionals
Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
Meet expert teachers
Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.
Certificates
PLUSIf you're a Plus member, get a custom certificate signed by your teacher for every course. Share it on your portfolio, social media, or wherever you like.
Get front-row seats
Videos of the highest quality, so you don't miss a single detail. With unlimited access, you can watch them as many times as you need to perfect your technique.
Share knowledge and ideas
Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
Connect with a global creative community
The community is home to millions of people from around the world who are curious and passionate about exploring and expressing their creativity.
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FAQs
You’ll learn mixed media techniques combining drawing, collage, and stains, how to visually capture your surroundings, and develop a personal artistic language using accessible materials and creative visual journals.
This is an intermediate-level course, perfect if you have basic drawing or collage skills and want to explore new techniques while boosting your creativity through experimentation.
You’ll need an artist’s sketchbook, various papers, a pen, dry and wet materials, tape, coffee, spray paint, recycled papers, and everyday objects you can find around your home.
Yes, the course encourages using everyday, accessible materials so you can experiment with whatever you have on hand to spark your creativity.
You’ll explore realistic and abstract drawing, collage, stains, paper texturing, tape usage, dry and wet media, readymades, visual composition, and journaling.
The course includes playful exercises, free experimentation, working with mistakes and happy accidents to unlock your creative flow and nurture intuition.
Yes, you’ll learn to observe and gather materials from your environment, like urban objects and everyday items, to incorporate into your compositions and collages.