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Day 24 of the April Fooling with Faces and Forms creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community: bored. Playing with different bored faces. 🖍
Whenever I feel frustrated with my efforts, I remind myself that when graphic facilitating, slapping a label on a drawing solves just about all problems. I’m not aiming for Art here, but communication of ideas.
What a relief that is! 😊
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Playing with different angry faces for the April Fooling with Faces and Forms creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community. .
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Visual Shownotes™ from CSW157 with @ghirschbotjoy: Gary Hirsh Wants You to Steal His Idea, all about the concept of—and challenges in—letting go.
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As with all my Visual Shownotes™, this one was an experiment, and some parts succeeded more than others. The grey titles, not so much… Now I know for next time!
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Each time I do one of these, I learn what to do differently next time. 😊
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Saturdoodle! Time for a little abstract playtime in the creative sandbox, and a visit from Doodlebot, while listening to @jordanharbinger and @vvanedwards on the Jordan Harbinger Show, one of my favorite podcasts.
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What are you creating this fine Saturday?
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From upper left to lower right, my process of simplifying and streamlining a figure holding a gift + index card. Trial and error and trial and error set on repeat will eventually get the results you want. I’m still working on it!
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Day 20 of the April Fooling with Faces and Forms creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community: tongue out/pfft. (Check out @carla.la.la.olson for a fun interpretation of the prompt, as always! 😊) These guys look like they’re wearing fringe! Hahahaha!
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Practicing “sad” for day 19 of the April Fooling with Faces and Forms creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community. I know a simple 🙁 would do the trick, but I wanted something a bit more expressive, but still quick to draw, for visual communication/graphic facilitation purposes. The big eyes are definitely more expressive, don’t you think?
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Day 18 of the April Fooling with Faces and Forms creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community: missing teeth. 🖍
Check out @carla.la.la.olson’s fun sketch for this one! Every day she makes a sketch to the daily prompt me that utterly delights me. 😊
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Want to join us in the Creative Sandbox Community? Doors will be opening to new members again soon! Read more and get on the invite list at http://bit.ly/2pPbRDZ
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Practicing bikablo® “silly” emotions for day 15 of the April Fooling with Faces and Forms creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community. Stick figures are fun! 😊
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It feels like ages since I’ve done an abstract doodle, so today I did one live on video! To remind myself of why I do them, and hopefully to inspire you to get creating, too. Click my photo to watch.
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Inside the Creative Sandbox Community, we’ve been doing monthly creative challenges, and this week one of our members, @carla.la.la.olson, said:
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“Like the sun warming your face in the morning, whether it’s 5 or 30 minutes, these daily sketches have had a very positive impact on me. I’ve struggled with depression for over 30 years, and this daily practice has been the most effective “treatment”…26 days and counting. Hooray for the power of TINY and DAILY!”
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Wow. Talk about a testimonial! She gave me permission to share her words with you, and here we are coming full circle: my words from my Creative Sandbox Way™ Guideposts (“think tiny and daily” is Guidepost #4) inspired Carla, which in turn inspired me to return to my own doodle practice.
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We need each other. The power of community + creativity cannot be overstated. 🖍
Find out more about the Creative Sandbox Community at http://bit.ly/2pPbRDZ. Doors open to new members next month—get on the invite list now.
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After drawing all those boy school kids some days back, the girl school kids kept clamoring for their turn. So last night I started playing around with what they might look like.
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In mainstream society, girls have a lot more variation in clothes and hair before they start to get ridiculed or seen as “different.” If I’m drawing a “generic” symbol that’s intended to read as “female school kid,” something like one of these might work.
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Obviously, real humans come in a spectrum with infinite variety. But the goal as a graphic facilitator is to capture concepts quickly. My goal here is “school kids,” and I wanted to make them clearly read as female. Goal accomplished, I think.
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Looks like these two are off to some kind of hockey practice together—ice or field, I’m not sure! 😊
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