This is the end result from my latest time lapse video (sneak peek coming soon!) 🖍
Likes: -I really like my Mac computer 😊
-You can’t tell this from this photo, but I’m proud of myself for doing this one at the wall *without* putting any sketch marks up there first, which has been my protocol up til now. I *did* do a lot of sketching at a smaller scale to work out concepts, icons, how to draw Steve Jobs and Jonas Salk, etc, but I did NOT do a scale draft before jumping in. And I am very proud of myself for making the attempt without getting stalled by perfectionism! 🖍
Why? Because when graphic recording or graphic facilitating, you don’t have TIME to get perfectionistic!! You don’t have the luxury for that!! You have to throw some marks down and MOVE ON! If I can’t do that in the privacy of my own home, how can I possibly expect to do it with an audience???
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Which brings me to…
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Wishes: -I wish this composition came out more balanced. The upper left corner feels like the icons are floating in space, lost, about to float away! -I wish my lettering (especially my title lettering) were more consistent. I have a tendency to drift downward, and the size of my letters also drifts! “Steve Jobs” bears little relationship to “Jonas Salk” 😂 Part of this is the challenge of writing low down on the sheet, which is uncomfortable. But it’s also my general lack of consistency… 🙄
-I wish I’d written “curiosity” larger on the door, and made the “creativity” figure a tad less hidden, as they are both hard to read.
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A great jazz singer, Sheila Jordan, once told me in a workshop I took from her, “Every performance is a rehearsal for the next performance.” And so it is with graphic charts: every one is a rehearsal for the next one. 😊 If you make a note of your Likes and Wishes (thanks to @malgosiakostecka for this lovely paradigm), youcant help but improve!
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Snapshot from My Studio: April 29, 2019 at 10:36AM
The finished graphic for today’s LinkedIn home feed post, illustrating 7 recommendations from @safibahcall’s @harvard_business_review article on structure as a critical component in innovation. 💥
There’s a lot of focus on company culture as key to innovation, but Bahcall noticed that at a certain point, companies “phase shift” into rigidity—like water turning to ice.
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He’s developed a model to explain this (see HBR Reprint R1902E for a full explanation), along with 7 specific recommendations for enhancing innovation—shown here. 💥
See the article for Bahcall’s expansion on each of these recommendations. .
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Snapshot from My Studio: April 22, 2019 at 07:37PM
The art from today’s video… Stay tuned! 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: April 21, 2019 at 01:31PM
The main event at today’s Creative Sandbox Playday: visually recording a podcast.
WorkLife with @adamgrant. It’s my new fave! 🖍
There’s so much to work on to improve (crowding, lettering, organization, etc…), but that’s what practice is for. Plus I had a ton of space left over at the bottom, and didn’t want to belabor it, so filled it in with swooshes.. 😂
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Snapshot from My Studio: April 21, 2019 at 11:58AM
Well, this is pretty fun! I finally figured out how to fill my @neulandcom Fat One marker with ink, and tried out some letters! It’s huge, so a flip chart doesn’t go very far. 😉 🖍
That’s an inadvertent custom color, btw. I’d tipped some 500 yellow onto the nib awhile back, and forgot about it. Then filled the chamber with 401 green. Now I have a blended yellow-green. 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: April 21, 2019 at 11:27AM
It’s Creative Sandbox Playday this fine Easter Sunday! I’m starting the day practicing lettering, with a brand new nib in my @neulandcom Artmarker. By the end of this sheet, though, the nib is already mushy! 🤨 😛
Am I the only one who goes through these nibs so quickly? It’s my only complaint about these fine pens, really—that the nibs turn to mush so fast. Otherwise they are my favorites!
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Snapshot from My Studio: April 17, 2019 at 09:16PM
Working out some ideas at the wall. With a dying pen…. Argh… Time to order more supplies from @neulandcom!
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Snapshot from My Studio: April 12, 2019 at 09:37PM
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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Snapshot from My Studio: April 11, 2019 at 07:12AM
Sketching out some ideas in my journal that I want to try in big paper later today…
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Snapshot from My Studio: April 10, 2019 at 09:02PM
Practicing different buildings on flip chart paper. .
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Snapshot from My Studio: April 09, 2019 at 10:44AM
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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Snapshot from My Studio: April 08, 2019 at 11:04AM
Practicing drawing 3D boxes at my flip chart. As you can see, they get better with practice! 😊
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