Sketchontes are inherently about letting, borders, arrows, visual concepts, and other adornments. I've seen many well-drawn and formatted sketchnotes that did not have a single character. So why am I dedicating a weekly post to just characters and locations? Because this is my favorite part of … [Read more...]
Step 2: Preparing #Sketchnotes for Format, Flow, and Materials
This next step in the Sketchnote School series is a continuation from last week about preparing to sketchnote. You may be saying to yourself, “Self, isn’t preparing and format the same thing?” Well, yes…sort of. Format in this context is more about how your sketchonte reads rather than the physical … [Read more...]
Step 1: Preparing to #Sketchnote: Live Sketching or Post-Sketching?
Last week was an introduction to the series, Sketchnote School: 6 Steps to Great Conference Sketchnotes. There are a lot of pieces and parts to Sketchnoting that we’ll cover in the coming weeks. This week is the choice between sketching live in real time or saving some time later in the day for … [Read more...]
Sketchnote School: 6 Steps to Great Conference Sketchnotes
Communicating visually is one of those skills many believe they can’t achieve. There are others on the interwebs and authors of books that have extensive examples, tutorials, and styles to help you get started. Even with great books like Dan Roam’s, Back of the Napkin and Mike Rohde’s book, The … [Read more...]
Storyboarding – A #Sketchnote Solution
Storyboarding is part of the design process. The DESIGN process. In the elearning industry there are a lot of authoring tools from the rapid family to those that require skills in programming languages. I run a company that develops primarily in rapid tools, but I don't develop rapid elearning and I … [Read more...]
Live Sketchnotes of Super Bowl 47
Planning a drawing by sketching it out in pencil first and finishing it in ink later is quite different than live sketching with a pen. I had been planning on sketching noting the Super Bowl, but my original plan was to take traditional notes first. After taking notes I was then going to grab … [Read more...]