Well, you are not alone with your struggle of trying to draw "on the fly" the ideas in your head without a reference. I totally get it, I am in the same space and it makes me mad at times, and I feel even embarrassed at times that I can't draw a simple something despite knowing exactly what it looks like in my head! I really enjoyed your behind the scenes idea for the icon prompts. I bet your sewn icon book must look amazing! Such a brilliant idea.
Thank you for this honest and interesting article Amy.
I’m extremely interested in learning how to sketchnote and I recently purchased Emily Mill’s book to guide me through the process.
Something key for me is to build a library of simple icons that I can learn by heart, almost like learning vocabulary so to do that I’m planning on using a small repertoire book and enter each icon under its first letter.
I'm glad I am not alone in not being able to draw the simplest things from memory. I keep meaning to try to practice so this is a good reminder for me. Those are wonderful examples from your journal pages. Love those whales!
Well, you are not alone with your struggle of trying to draw "on the fly" the ideas in your head without a reference. I totally get it, I am in the same space and it makes me mad at times, and I feel even embarrassed at times that I can't draw a simple something despite knowing exactly what it looks like in my head! I really enjoyed your behind the scenes idea for the icon prompts. I bet your sewn icon book must look amazing! Such a brilliant idea.
Thank you for this honest and interesting article Amy.
I’m extremely interested in learning how to sketchnote and I recently purchased Emily Mill’s book to guide me through the process.
Something key for me is to build a library of simple icons that I can learn by heart, almost like learning vocabulary so to do that I’m planning on using a small repertoire book and enter each icon under its first letter.
I'm glad I am not alone in not being able to draw the simplest things from memory. I keep meaning to try to practice so this is a good reminder for me. Those are wonderful examples from your journal pages. Love those whales!