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The article addresses related issues surrounding the artistic biography and production of Gregorio Vásquez, the most important painter of colonial Colombia, active in the latter part of the seventeenth and the first decade of the eighteenth century. Vásquez is a unique figure in Latin American art historiography because local historians researched and wrote about his life and works since at least the nineteenth century. His vast catalogue consists of almost five hundred paintings and includes a unique corpus of over a hundred drawings. Based on published and unpublished primary sources and chronicles, and the analysis of his painterly style and drawing techniques, it is argued that the painter's abundant production and fame were both the means and result of artistic strategies devised by Vásquez and his followers throughout the eighteenth century in order to capitalize on the painter's regional success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design academies in Colombia traditionally teach freehand drawing techniques to develop ideation skills in students. This teaching practice promotes cognitive activity that precedes and becomes part of the materialization process of the designed product. Through the drawing of some quick lines in the sketch, the students explore and discover the main axes of an idea. This exploration requires several stages that start by drawing something abstract and end with the proposal for a new product. Nowadays, students develop projects in collaboration with members of different disciplines, and it is no longer enough for designers to draw the lines of a sketch to communicate a design idea to these interdisciplinary teams. Instead, they need to have the ability to combine up to five different non-graphical forms of language to improve and convey their ideas to other professionals and, as a consequence, develop more complex projects. Being able to understand these different forms of languages that complement the lines of a sketch at the ideation stage is part of doctoral research that was carried out through a case study at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]