Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
A course by Javirroyo , Illustrator
Train your creativity by doing simple exercises and discover tools to tackle your next drawing project
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 97% positive reviews (153)
- 3341 students
Train your creativity by doing simple exercises and discover tools to tackle your next drawing project
Creativity is innate in human beings, so in order to be in creative shape all you need to do is train. This is the philosophy of illustrator, designer, and professor Javier Royo Espallargas, better known as Javirroyo. With years of experience drawing for different brands and media outlets, he has mastered the art of distilling complex ideas into simple graphic illustrations and diagrams that resonate with a wide audience, as his 270K followers can attest.
In this course, learn how to boost your creativity through drawings and diagrams. Train in a gym of ideas by completing various simple exercises and discover new techniques to pump up your inspiration and tackle your next drawing project. Explore the endless possibilities hidden within your own imagination and share your ideas with the world.
What will you learn in this online course?
20 lessons & 25 downloads
- 97% positive reviews (153)
- 3341 students
- 20 lessons (2h 54m)
- 25 additional resources (16 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Complete a set of exercises and activities to experiment with different creative approaches you can use in your work, regardless of your profession.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Professionals who want to train their creativity, no matter what field they're in.
Requirements and materials
You don't need any drawing skills to take this course, just the drive to change, improve, and learn how to be more creative.
As for materials, you need a pencil, a fine-tip marker, and some paper.
Reviews
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.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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U2
The creative process: from motivation to connection
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Creativity, communication and neurons
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Procrastinate, think, draw and share
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Find your weirdness, find your motivation
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Descriptive self-portrait
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Analyze your capabilities and your limitations
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Connect concepts
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U3
Conceptualize and simplify
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The importance of conceptualizing and simplifying stories
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Concept map
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A mutant form
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Tame chance to get new ideas
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Express ideas from different emotions
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Find a story and simplify it
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U4
Thinking outside your comfort zone
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Thinking outside the box as normal
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Turn one image into many graphic ideas
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Playing a game of tennis with concepts
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To break the rules
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Communicate ideas from different media
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Humor is the king of creativity
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FP
Final project
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Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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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.
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Learn from the best professionals
Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Watch professionally produced courses
Domestika curates its teacher roster and produces every course in-house to ensure a high-quality online learning experience.
FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
You can redeem the course you received by accessing the redeeming page and entering your gift code.
cligeia
Me encantó! Me fascinó tanto el curso que estoy escribiendo esto sin necesitar el descuento :)
Muy recomendable para todos, hasta se lo iba a regalar a mi mamá de 71 años.
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pietro_gae07
Son ejercicios muy prácticos pero me gustaría que usaran mas ejemplos
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mcarmenrodriguezcaballos
Es genial, Javi Royo es un artista magnífico y explica en cada lección claro y gráfico lo que quiere transmitir.
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gabocarabes
PlusPero lo que realmente distingue a Javi es su habilidad para hacer que incluso los conceptos más complejos sean accesibles y, lo que es más importante, divertidos.
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Al final del día, recomendaría a Javi no solo por su conocimiento y experiencia, sino porque simplemente encarna el espíritu del dicho popular español de ser un "puto máquina".
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lilyangles
Me ha fascinado el curso, videos cortos y muy explicativos para poder ilustrar ideas.
Ojala hicieras alguno para hacer metaforas visuales, diccionario visual para sketchnotes y dibujo simple para representar conceptos.
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