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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Another page from my LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® “analog PowerPoint.” I thought the layout of this one was rather fun. .
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April Creative Sandbox Challenge day 10: confused. After doing 50 of these, as per @evalottchen’s advice, without the question mark, I’m not sure if they would read as “confused.” And the question is, which looks most confused? And WHY? 🖍
I’m thinking maybe the last one on the right, second up from the bottom, but what makes that one read as “confused” rather than scheming, or startled, or..?
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The size of the pupils?
The size of the mouth?
The *shape* of the mouth?
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Thankfully, in graphic facilitation, I always get to include words, question marks, or whatever other marks I need to communicate what I’m trying to get across. This is VISUAL COMMUNICATION, not art, folks! The goal is to communicate concepts, not impress anyone with my artistic chops (much as my ego might love to do that, too. Down, ego, down!)
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Still, it would be nice to understand how to draw what I want to communicate, without using typographic symbols. #wishfulthinking .
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