Practicing icons. Or as @loosetoothcom calls them in her fabulous book, The Idea Shapers, “postage stamps.” A small image that communicates a big idea. This can be super challenging with abstract concepts! Quick: how would you draw “commitment”? Or “engagement”? Or “unity”?
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These are the types of things I’m working on coming up with my own visual vocabulary for, so I actually have an icon in my metaphorical pocket, at the ready, should the need arise. When I’m at a loss for how to start, Google image search is a great jumping off point! From there I can develop my own icon/postage stamp. And the real key, as @evalottchen says, is to draw it over and over and over—at least 50 times before you really “own” it. (Plus you have to *keep* drawing it, or trust me, you’ll forget how! 😂)
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Adding a few more knot doodles to this page to start the week with some creative sandbox playtime! Science shows that play is good for your brain—doing something that engages your interest is actually the BEST way to power up your willpower, so you have more FOCUS, more PATIENCE, and more ability to resist temptations and distractions! 🖍
That’s some powerful stuff. The opposite of “frivolous and self-indulgent,” wouldn’t you say?
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Know all of this, what are you doing to add a little play to your day?
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Saturday morning knot doodles. Tiny and daily. .
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Finished square of knot doodles. Isn’t it satisfying to finish something? It’s easy to fill up your space with unfinished objects, but your space was not meant to be a UFO warehouse! Maybe there are UFOs you might want to let go of (like the sweaters I’ve been meaning to post to Ravelry, because I have no intention of ever finishing them, and I’m absolutely fine with that—I got what I needed out of the experience of partially completing them). But the projects you know you want to finish but you’re just scared of, because maybe you’re afraid they can’t possibly be good enough? What if you just let them be crappy? What’s the worst that would happen?
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Practicing icons for “empathy.” Drawing abstract concepts is challenging. I’m working on creating a visual vocabulary of some of the concepts I use frequently in my work, so I can whip them out on demand. 🖍
Obviously, some of these profiles are more… successful… than others, but they all read as people, which is all that matters here. As a visual practitioner, I’m drawing for ideas and communication, not for “art!” 😊
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