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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More emotions for the April Fooling with Faces and Forms creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community. Today’s prompt was “happy,” but I threw in three “confused” faces too, because I’m still trying to figure out my visual shorthand for “confused”!
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Yesterday one of the members posted that doing these daily prompts has had a very positive impact on her, that in fact, she’s struggled with depression for 30 years, and this “tiny and daily” creative practice has been the most effective “treatment”!
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Talk about a testimony! 🖍
That’s the power of creative expression, folks. And that’s the power of community, which helps us get to our creative expression when the rest of the world seems to conspire against us.
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When we create, we are unstoppable. (If you want some of that community support for yourself, sign up to get an invitation inside at http://bit.ly/2pPbRDZ 🖍
Doors are opening again next month.)
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I can’t let go of “confused.” I want to figure out how to communicate this emotion, without writing the word, or using a question mark! Elsewhere on this sheet I played with different mouth shapes — a squiggly line ~ or a short angled line. I’m not sure which reads best.
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I’ll keep working at it! .
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Using some quick visuals to help me plot out my plan of action for getting my supplies from my car to the room for today’s LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® team building retreat.
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