Let's Sketch in - Issue #15

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Let’s jump in today's issue

1. Sketchnote talk of the week

2. 5 Benefits of Atomic Sketches

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Sketchnote talk of the week

A comment on wonderful Sketchnote of Eva Lotta kickstarted an interesting conversation around Sketchnotes. So presenting here Sketchnote talk of the week.

letsketchin✍🏻@letsketchin

Clarity. Ingenuity. Spacing. Awesome Sketchnote

Eva-Lotta Lamm @evalottchen

Throwback to my #sketchnotes from @chrisnoessel's talk about Assistant Technologies at @uxlondon 2019.⁠ I love how Chris breaks complex topics down into digestable categories and frameworks. https://t.co/5apMwZ34Ib

2:58 AM · Mar 17, 2023

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Some key take aways from the conversation

1. Is Sketchnote an infographic or note taking method? The output of note taking is more of in action than an infographic that’s gone through iterations.

2. Practice, tons of it, is what lands a good looking Sketchnote

3. Keeping it simple: less strokes, more space gives this finished style.

4. Sketchnoting is a process - from manual co-ordination of drawing objects to identifying relationships and different patterns

5. When starting to sketchnote, focus on text blocks and layouts and visual mental models

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5 Benefits of Atomic Sketches

The 5 benefits of doing Atomic (small) sketches

1. Daily Accomplishments

2. Life turns into a sketching experiment

3. Visual Thinking

4. New found thoughtfulness

5. Foundation for Sketchnotes

I was reading this wonderful article by Dickie Bush on twitter about the benefits of writing atomic essays and it struck me that the same is true for Atomic Sketches.

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Atomic Sketches

Now that you know benefits of Atomic Sketches, I would request you to check out the newly built website that helps you to build a habit of sketching and sketchnoting. Following the habit forming framework in the book Atomic Habits by James Clear, the vision is to help you grow.

This project is built in public. Am adding new ways of engaging with the sketches that the group members are doing everyday.

The next one coming up is gallery of sketches done till date.

I won’t spam you for anything other than Sketchnotes :-)

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That’s all I have for today.

Have a wonderful week ahead Sketchnoting.

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