Abandoned. Day 14 of the July #creativesandboxchallenge inside the #creativesandboxcommunity, my lab for women’s leadership through creative expression. Did you know the doors are opening to new members soon? We’ll kick off the re-opening with a Great ClutterBust on July 24th — 3 weeks of clearing out the clutter to make space to create! All members, new and current, get to join in. Turning an onerous task into something fun and playful, and actually getting it DONE, together. 😄 🖍
It’s a great way to start off your membership in the community: a fresh start, with a freshened-up space, that you’re excited to be in because it makes you feel good, makes you WANT to create! Not like this drawing of an abandoned house! 😂
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Stay tuned…
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Sketchbook page. Practicing hands from @evalottchen. She does the coolest illustrations!
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Day 11 of the Creative Sandbox Challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community: graveyard. 🖍
Yes, it appears some of the residents of this graveyard are quite short. Ahem. I’ll have to work on that. Still, it gets the point across, I think, which is the goal, after all. 😊
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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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