😀 Personality, Not Perfection! ~ The goal is NOT to create “the perfect sketchnote” but to learn and have fun doing it! 👩🏼🎨 Be Inspired, Not Intimidated ~ When checking out other people’s sketchnotes, try… Read More »Things to Consider for Your Sketchnotes
💬 What happens when you start learning a new language? You learn a few words and the basic way to use them, but whenever you try to say something new you have to pause and… Read More »Visual Language Has a Vocabulary That You Can Practice
📃Every time you create a sketchnote, try starting in a new place on the page and see how that feels. By testing different layouts, you’ll likely end up with a preference or two. 👀 A… Read More »Testing Different Layouts
✍🏼 Do you hate your handwriting? If you do, that’s ok! Handwriting is just any writing you do with a pen or pencil ✏ You have permission to love it, hate it, or be completely… Read More »Letters are Drawing in Disguise 🔠
❌ As a professional graphic recorder, I spell things wrong all the time. We aren’t human dictionaries, so don’t let the fact that you don’t know how to spell something trip you up. ✍🏼 In… Read More »Did You Spell Something Wrong?
When you’re starting something new, it’s common to feel like you need to go out and buy special supplies in order to do it properly. I’m here to tell you that you absolutely do not… Read More »One of the Best Things About Sketchnoting is it’s Practically Zero Cost to Start Up!
When you sketchnote, you’re using your visual language and your written language together to communicate meaning. And you can unite these two languages even more smoothly by overlapping and intertwining them. Overlapping and intertwining are… Read More »Overlap & Intertwine Info and Drawings in Your Sketchnote
If you aren’t sketchnoting presentations all day like me, what in the heck do you sketchnote? Here’s a list of some things that you can sketchnote: When I started on my visual communication journey 10 years… Read More »What Can You Sketchnote?
People Summarizing Themselves: “What I’m really trying to say is …”Sketchnoting is all about active listening and assessing in the moment whether you need to include a piece of information. Always listen for a verbal… Read More »Listening When Sketchnoting
On Sunday and into this week we’ve had multiple wildfires breakout across the province in Canada where I live, Nova Scotia. On Tuesday the government did an update. I saw that the video of the update was… Read More »Creating a Sketchnote to Help Communicate Important Information