Best Practices, Sketchnotes, Tips + Process
What makes sketchnotes “look good?” It’s a hard question to answer since “looking good” can be subjective, or up to each person, but generally speaking, appealing art or designs have one or a few of these elements: asymmetry symmetry...
Best Practices, Sketchnotes, Tips + Process
Sketchnotes are a culmination of different of skills: Layout, listening, writing, drawing, and design. That’s a ton of skills to juggle all at once! If you’ve struggled to practice sketchnoting and feel like you aren’t making good progress, it might...
Best Practices, Sketchnotes, Tips + Process
Have you ever turned to online videos like TED talks or podcasts to practice sketchnoting? What you may not realize is how difficult sketchnoting those mediums can be! TED talks are ultra-rehearsed and packed full of interesting and relevant information. TED speakers...
Best Practices, Sketchnotes, Tips + Process
Do you… Feel like you don’t have enough time to sketchnote? Have a notebook with empty pages… that’s months or even years old? Look at others’ sketchnotes more than you create your own? Wish you had notebooks full of sketchnotes but...
Sketchnotes, Tips + Process
Stop the bleed: Know your inks! Have you ever used a black pen to write, then gone over it with a colored marker and the black ink smeared everywhere? This called ink “bleeding” and it’s really frustrating! If you want to prevent this, you have to...
Sketchnotes, Tips + Process
Write for stacking! Adjust your ascenders and descenders. The “descender” is the part of the letter that goes below the baseline. Think the “tail” of the lower case y, g, j, and q. The “ascender” is the tall “stem” that...
