Trying out some ideas that I’d drawn in my journal at the flip chart. There’s simply nothing like drawing with big markers! 👍😁🖍
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Sketching out some ideas in my journal that I want to try in big paper later today…
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Practicing different buildings on flip chart paper. .
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In visual facilitation, simplicity and speed are key. Way more important than realism or aesthetics. “Learning to draw” means something different when your goal is to communicate concepts than when your goal is to express the glory of a landscape (or whatever).
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Here is a flip chart filled with dogs, as I practice communicating “dog” visually as quickly as possible! 🖍
These dogs aren’t going to win any awards for artistic achievement, but that’s not what visual thinking is about. It’s about communication of ideas. So if my “star dogs” or “stick figure dogs” communicate the idea of “dog” or “dog-ness” to a viewer, they are a 💯% success! 😊 After being mired in the perfectionist paralysis swamp of the art world for so long, there’s something really liberating about that. .
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Practicing drawing 3D boxes at my flip chart. As you can see, they get better with practice! 😊
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Silly critter knot doodles on a Sunday morning. Hope you’re having a great weekend!
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Today’s graphic facilitation practice: drawing the 8 play personalities from Dr. Stuart Brown’s seminal book, Play. This was a fun project! 🖍
My previous post showed sketches in my journal, as I worked out how to draw some of the icons on a smaller scale. Then I did a few rough passes at a layout—also in my journal—and then I did some practice passes at the wall, on flip chart paper, with my Neuland markers.
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This image is a snapshot of the final result! 😊
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Since I’ll be using this drawing as part of a series of posts over on LinkedIn, and a wider, longer shape works better there, I decided to futz with it a bit in Photoshop, to end up with a 1200×628 pixel dimension graphic.
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If you’re on LinkedIn, watch for my posts on the 8 play personalities over the coming days! 😊
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How do you learn to draw? The same way you learn to do anything else: practice! Applied effort over time. Here’s a peek at my journal, where today I was working out how to draw a director’s chair, with help from The Noun Project (if you don’t know of this fantastic resource yet, check it out at http://bit.ly/2Vj5o2z).
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My first attempts were a bit sad—more like lawn chairs than director’s chairs! 😅 But I assessed what I needed to change, and tried again. When you approach your practice sessions this way, you improve—imagine that! You may not master the thing overnight (let’s face it—you probably won’t), but mastery takes time. We’re aiming for improvement here, not perfection! Bit by bit, you’ll get better, and that’s pretty darn cool. 😊
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Practicing arrows. .
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As part of my graphic facilitation practice, I’m committing to getting my big markers in hand every day. That could mean just practicing lettering or drawing icons at a flip chart, even just for a few minutes. Or it could mean listening practice—recording a podcast on a flip chart or a 4’x8’ sheet. Or it could mean, like today, writing out my to-do list on a flip chart. 🖍
As long as I’m doing *something* that uses *some* of my graphic facilitation skills, it counts! 😊
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That’s how we grow: flexing the muscles we want to build. One step at a time, we move forward toward our goals. 😊
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What muscles are you wanting to develop? What steps are you committing to take to get yourself there?
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Teeny-tiny critter knot doodles. Happy Monday! Happy April Fools Day! Go play!
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After 3 days at a @groveconsultants graphic facilitation workshop with the fabulous @malgosiakostecka, I am inspired and motivated to practice with my #neulandmarkers every day! Lettering, drawing, listening, layout—*something*. Even just a minute at a flip chart is better than nothing! And there’s never a shortage of things to improve on. Arrows and boxes are hard, for example (straight lines and symmetry: NOT my strong suits!) But these faces are so fun to draw! They’re just a U, an L or w for a nose, and dots or upside-down u’s for eyes, c’s for ears, add a neck, mouth, and some squiggles for hair, and voilá! A happy person!
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I can’t wait to take another workshop with Malgosia! If all the Grove trainings are as good as this one, I’ll probably take them all eventually. Off the chain! 👍👍👍👍👍
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