Break Shapes Down, Add Details Later

In this final episode of The Sketchnote Army Podcast season 11, we’ve gathered all the tips from 13 fantastic visual thinkers to inspire you!

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Running Order

• Intro
• Welcome
• Sponsor: Concepts app
• Tips
• Outro

Links

• Paul Mignard’s Website
• Renée Stevens’ Website
• Andy McNally’s Website
• Zsofi Lang’s Website
• Andreas Gaertner’s Website
• Franziska Schwarz’s Website
• Adrien Liard’s Website
• Kris Necklemann’s Website
• Lai Chee Chiu on Instagram
• Tanmay Vora’s Website
• William Warren’s Website
• Chris Wilson’s Website
• Scott H Young’s Website

1. Paul Mignard’s Tips

1. Get in the habit of making and posting content regularly
2. Be curious with new things
3. Get inspired by learning by people online across disciplines

2. Renée Stevens’ Tips

1. Try out XR and observe XR in everyday life
2. Choose rhythm and routine instead of inspiration
3. Break out of rectangles - think outside in open space

3. Andy McNally’s Tips

1. Break things down into their basic shapes
2. Focus on capturing the idea, add color and details later
3. Don’t be afraid to leave space blank and return to it later
4. Keep learning new things

4. Zsofi Lang’s Tips

1. Look at other work that’s awesome and analyze and understand why
2. Visually journal 3 things that happened today
3. Don’t be discouraged when its hard, keep going
4. Use 50% opacity layer or a sticky note to capture in-progress ideas

5. Andreas Gaertner’s Tips

1. Use gray and black for 2 levels of information
2. Shut up — DO IT! Practice again and again!
3. Make your drawing process visible to the customer — don’t hide it!

6. Franziska Schwarz’s Tips

1. Copy other artists’ work
2. Draw a new idea by mixing two disconnected elements
3. Hand letter poetry or quotes that you like

7. Adrien Liard’s Tips

1. Practice consistently a little bit each day, regularity for the win
2. Inspect your work looking for growth areas you can work on
3. Practice the things that you’re weak on, it should hurt
4. Draw from life because drawing is in the mind

8. Kris Neckelmann’s Tips

1. Draw sample lines with your pens before you’re under pressure
2. Find people’s work you like and analyze it to learn and grow
3. Have patience!
4. Show your work and reveal your journey

9. Lai Chee Chiu’s Tips

1. Explore the 33% people rule
2. Treat your drawing as a reward instead of a task
3. Post as much work as you can

10. Tanmay Vora’s Tips

1. Integrate visuals into everyday tasks and routines
2. Share your work generously with others to keep yourself active
3. Constraints will help you keep on track

11. William Warren’s Tips

1. Creativity flourishes with boundaries
2. Visualize the problem as a movie
3. Pursue adjacent creative activities - painting or music

12. Chris Wilson’s Tips

1. Create something that’s just for you and not public consumption
2. Shake up your tools and play around with them
3. Ask what a tool wants to used for and not used for, then play with both

13. Scott H. Young’s Tips

1. Develop your own visual language
2. Don’t worry about your stuff looking good!
3. Look for a visual picture to represent an idea to help your learning

Credits

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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