Artwork in Progress

I’m at Creative Sunday Lab, hosted by @jenniheffernanbrown, working on these Visual Shownotes™ of a TED talk by @isabelbehncke, Evolution’s gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans. 🖍
I’m not at a point where I can live capture a talk like this—the talk is under 20 minutes, and I’ve spent over two hours on this flipchart sketchnote! And it feels WAY too busy, and WAY too messy, and is filled with mistakes. But practice is practice. Every time I do ANYTHING related to sketchnoting or visual facilitation/visual communication/visual notetaking, I learn. 🖍
EVERY time I do something that makes me think, “Well, THAT didn’t work…” And you know what? THAT is when the learning happens!! Because only when I make those “mistakes” can I figure out what would work better! 🖍
So go out and try something, knowing that it’s not going work the way you want. That’s the way we grow! We need the crap to fertilize the good stuff! 😊
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#creativesandboxway #creativesundaylab #visualcommunication #visualpractice #visualnotes #visualshownotes #neulandmarkers #graphicfacilitation #isabelbehncke #dailycreative #doodlesofinstagram #originalart

Who knew there was such a thing as No Dirty Dishes Day?? The things I’m learning thanks to the May creative challenge in the Creative Sandbox Community! 😊
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#creativesandboxcommunity #creativesandboxway #nationaldays #nodirtydishes #originalart #doodlesofinstagram #visualthinking #visualcommunication #dailydoodle

May 17 is Walnut Day, Cherry Cobbler Day, and Pack Rat Day. All things I learned thanks to the May monthly creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community! 😊
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I am not a photorealist, nor do I aspire to be. I like to figure out how to quickly communicate concepts through sketching. That’s what I use the monthly creative challenges for: to grow my visual vocabulary. Other members use it to work on strengthening their drawing muscles, or to have a writing prompt every day. It’s up to you. It’s a fun way to stretch and share, and be inspired by each other. 😊
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Community is great for that.
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#smalldailyacts #tinyanddaily #dailydoodle #doodlesofinstagram #originalart #visualcommunication #visualnotes #neulandmarkers #dailycreative #creativesandboxcommunity #creativesandboxchallenge

Happy Nylon Stocking Day! 😊 It’s also the first day of Multi-Passionate Must-Haves, the 72-hour bundle sale for people with a ton of different passions and interests. My ebook+workbook combo, Erase the Chaos Toolkit, is part of the bundle this year, which is a great lineup of courses and books to help you be more productive AS a multipassionate. Valued at over $1500, but selling for less than $100 for 3 days only—after Thursday, it’s gone.
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Check it out at http://bit.ly/MPMH2018 .
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#mpmh #nylonstockingday #tinyanddaily #smalldailyacts #visualcommunication #originalart #sketch #dailydoodle #multipassionate

We had Mom & Pop over for dinner last night for Mother’s Day (Avocado Alfredo—yum!). I recently took delivery of a new flipchart easel, which I’d set up in the living room to try out, so instead of making Mom a card, I made her a flipchart. It was the first thing she saw when they walked in, and she LOVED it! She immediately wanted to snap a pic. 😊
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Sometimes the tools of the trade come in handy for more than the trade. ❤️❤️❤️
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#mothersday #creativesandboxway #imperfectionism #justdoit #tinyanddaily #visualcommunication #doodlesofinstagram #flipchart #visualnotes #originalart #greetingcards