Drawing and Creativity for Big Little Artists (Spanish, Multisub)

Train your creativity, whether a child or an adult, using just your hands, your brain, and some basic tools This course is for children and adults alike who want to explore their artistic side through exercises and games designed to train a specific creative or artistic ability.

Anyone can be an artist. Puño, a Spanish illustrator and educator based in Colombia, works on this very simple but powerful basis, and assures that using just your hands, brain, and some basic tools, anyone can become a great artist, overcome creative blocks, and learn new family activities for a rainy day.

What will you learn in this online course? Start by getting to know more about Puño, his professional journey, and some of his influences specifically relating to this course before taking a tour of the materials you need to complete the exercises.

Now it’s time to get to work! To know how to draw you have to know how to think, so Puño shares several great ways to stimulate your creativity and see reality from different perspectives. The key to being a great artist is observation!

Next up, it’s time to sharpen your pencils. Puño walks you through a series of drawing exercises for exploring different worlds, from gestural expression and body language to the construction of drawings with geometric figures. Remember that your drawings don’t have to look like things themselves but rather how you see them.

Continue with some more exercises, this time to get stuck into the materials, acquire some manual skills, and understand the time that each project takes.

Use colored paper to experiment with the interaction between them before photographing real household objects to build abstract landscapes. Finally, learn to make printed drawings with several different colors using EVA foam and colored tempera.

What is this course’s project? At the end of the course, set up an exhibition of your artistic works in your home or school using the results of each of the exercises from the lessons.

Who is this online course for? Children between 6 and 100 years old who want to improve as artists, parents who want creative activities to do as a family, and educators looking to incorporate new dynamics into their classes.

Requirements and materials

No drawing or special skills are necessary for this course.

The suggested materials are only a guide. If you can’t find any of them, be brave and experiment with whatever you have at home. For example, you can sometimes use coins and glasses instead of a circular ruler and markers instead of India ink.

That said, you do need a notebook, hard grease pencils, colored pencils or markers, black markers of varying thicknesses, some scissors, colored tempera, a rolling pin, an old tray, EVA foam or a cardboard box, old newspapers and magazines, a glue stick, colored card, a camera, a printer, pins, Blu-Tack or painter’s tape, binder clips, some old clothes to avoid damaging new ones, and, finally, an adult.