Frozen time. Day 10 from the July creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community. 🖍
It’s supposed to be a stopwatch in an ice cube, though the blue streaks at the bottom make it look a bit like a gigantic stopwatch on a pillow on a bed with blue sheets! 🤣
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Context is everything. If I drew this image in a sketchnote, to illustrate the concept of frozen time, you probably wouldn’t see a pillow and sheets. But now that I mentioned it, it’s probably all you *can* see! If I added the label, “frozen time,” however, my lack of drawing skills would be forgiven, and you’d get what I was trying to communicate.
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Visuals don’t have to be perfect, they just have to be placeholders. Stand-ins. Something for our eyes to grab onto and say, “Ah, yes, I get it.” 🖍
Having that visual allows our minds to relax—the information is retained by the visual, so we don’t have to remember it. We can focus our attention elsewhere, knowing the information will be there for us when we need it.
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The visual holds the information for us, so much more powerfully than just words! Even if it’s wonkily drawn. 😉
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I made a how-to video for my IGTV channel just now, on knot doodles. This is the result. Of course Doodlebot showed up to play at the end. 😊 You can see the whole thing and learn to make your own knot doodles. They’re super fun, and very meditative.
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Ugh. Being a beginner is so frustrating! But this is how we learn. I set a goal to practice some visual note-taking this weekend, on my 4’x4’ board. This is what I’ve got so far, from a tiny piece of a @creativelive class on body language with the always amazing @vvanedwards. There’s no organization, no useful structure going on here—no subhead for the “mistakes” section (gee, that would have been useful!) or any clarity around what is a fix vs a mistake.
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Sigh… doing this on the fly is HARD! I could come up with a much better layout after the fact, but as a facilitator, my goal is to support the process as it happens. 🖍
Lesson from today’s practice: LEAVE MORE SPACE! If I’d left space above my first mark, I could have created a subhead there. Now it’s kinda challenging to squeeze it in! Live and learn. 😁
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Today’s prompt from the #creativesandboxchallenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community is “bicycle,” so I thought I’d make a little infodoodle on how to draw a bike! Anyone can do it! 🖍
2 triangles 🔺
2 circles 🔵
And a few lines
That’s it!
As you can see, it doesn’t even matter if your circles and triangles are wonky—it still reads as a bicycle! 😊
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Give it a try!
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Creative Sandbox Community July creative challenge, day 7: foot. Practicing drawing feet, quickly and simply. You can see the progression in just a dozen! From top left to bottom right, my foot looks more proportional and human-foot-like. 🖍
Practice makes better. 😊 We’re not aiming for perfection here, because perfectionism paralyzes. But aiming for improvement? THAT I can get behind. 😊👍
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