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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Flip chart fun, preparing my “analog PowerPoint” for my upcoming LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® team building retreat. 🖍
These flip charts are a real exercise in imperfectionism. They have to be, otherwise I would never finish them!!! 🖍
“Done” is better than “perfect,” and “good enough” really is. Anything that I’m not pleased with just has to be accepted, because there is NO TIME for any other option!
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So we learn to forgive ourselves for being less than perfect, less than superhuman, less than our heroes (whom we imagine to be both of the above, even though of course they aren’t!) and keep in rolling.
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Next page! Onward, Ho!
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Days 8 & 9 of the April Fooling with Faces and Figures creative challenge happening inside the Creative Sandbox Community: “mischievous” and “bushy eyebrow(s)”
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I love @evalottchen’s directive to draw something 50 times in order to own it, so today I decided to do that with “mischievous.” (Clearly I’m also still working on owning “circle”—ha!)
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I threw in a bushy eyebrow at the end, for (additional) fun. 😊
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A lot of people have asked me where they can find the challenge. We hold them monthly inside the Creative Sandbox Community, and most members choose to share inside the safe container of the community, rather that in a public forum like Instagram. But follow @carla.la.la.olson and me to join the fun here. 🖍
And if you’d like a more private space to participate in challenges like these, sign up on the invite list for the next time I open the doors to the Creative Sandbox Community. It’s my lab for women’s leadership through creative expression. http://bit.ly/2pPbRDZ
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More school kids, from a sheet of 23. Getting closer to owning “school kid”—at least the male version! Thanks to @evalottchen for yesterday’s tips—they helped a ton! 🖍
I would love to draw all day. Pick something, draw it 50 times to “own it,” then pick something else and do the same thing. Right now that sounds like my idea of heaven. 😊
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Alas, deadlines await, so it’s off to other things! .
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Inspired by @letssummerize’s #100dayproject, I decided to practice “school kid” today. The other side of this sheet is 16 attempts, and here are 9 more. By the last one I was starting to get fairly quick and fluid. I don’t know if he reads young enough to be a school kid—second to the left at top proportions read as younger—but I’m getting there.
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@evalottchen says to draw something 50 times in order to own it. I’m half way there with “school kid”—25 more to go and it’s mine! 😊
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