Trust the Brain and Embrace Mistakes

In this final episode of The Sketchnote Army Podcast season 12, we’ve gathered all the tips from 9 fantastic visual thinkers to inspire you!

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Running Order

• Intro
• Hermen Lutje Berenbroek
• Tanvi Agarwal
• Jude Pullen
• Natalia Talkowska
• David Neal
• Kate Rutter
• Tim May
• Raven Henderson
• Sathya
• Outro

Links

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• Hermen’s Artifizer
• Tavi’s Silly Strokes
• Jude’s Site
• Natalka Design
• David Neal’s Website
• Kate Rutter’s site
• Tim on Instagram
• Raven’s Website
• Sathya on Twitter

1. Hermen’s Tips

1. Trust the power of the human brain.
2. Embrace your mistakes!
3. Draw your conversations for better understanding

2. Tanvi’s Tips

1. Focus on the thinking and execution of your visualizations
2. Consume a lot of good content, observe and learn because your mind-shift from good content impacts your style
3. Invest in yourself!

3. Jude’s Tips

1. Make your brain engage in the environment and challenge yourself to sketch on objects
2. Draw for someone not in your world: your mom
3. Learn to sketch upside-down to stay in flow as you sketch for someone else

4. Natalia’s Tips

1. Talk to other people, especially outside of your area
2. Do something else to break out of your old ways: course, approach, etc.
3. Believe who you and and this is what you do

5. David’s Tips

1. Find some way to make visualization a regular thing - practice
2. Keep at your practice, don’t give up!
3. Forgive yourself when your work is not as great as you want it to be
4. Challenge yourself to develop your own way to create things

6. Kate’s Tips

1. Draw until the pen runs dry
2. 3 Times a Charm
3. Talk with someone about their work and share yours, asking “why”

7. Tim’s Tips

1. Believe in the value of sketchy work for collaboration
2. Don’t put pressure on yourself to make drawings beautiful
3. Take a class in something new that you don’t know about

8. Raven’s Tips

1. Do a challenge like Inktober with prompts
2. Go smaller, like with sticky notes!
3. Listen to others for good ideas

9. Sathya’s Tips

1. Have a craftsman’s mindset
2. Be a great fan of things you love and want to recreate
3. Copy then master it and make it your own
4. Build in public

Credits

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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