Sketchnote Army is dedicated to finding and showcasing sketchnotes and sketchnoters from around the world, from events, conferences, workshops or wherever sketchnotes are captured or created. If you sketchnote, send me your sketchnotes URL, I’d love to feature them here. — Mike Rohde
HDYI created these sketchnotes during the Influencer Project conference. Influencer Project is the shortest marketing conference featuring 60 thoughts leaders in 60 minutes.
Lea sent a note last week, sharing how doing sketchnotes helped free her from creative block. I asked it would be cool to share her story and she agreed. Here it is:
“I used to do something very much like sketchnotes, a comic called Near-Life Experience, where I wrote down what was in my head, with drawings and words. The response was good. And then I choked. I started to over-plan. The comics became a chore. I put enormous pressure on myself, I vapor-locked and I couldn’t draw the comic any more.
Fast forward to less than two weeks ago. I meet sketchnotes, and I’m enchanted and excited. I have a pen, and a 3.5 x 5.5 Moleskine. I take them to the pool, and start writing and drawing and before I know it, I have four effortless pages of drawing and writing (and an endearingly dreadful drawing of the pool). And I feel great, the best I’ve felt in months.
Funny, all I had to do was call them something besides comics, take them out of this place full of self-inflicted unhappiness and pressure, and I’m drawing happily again.”
More wonderful work from Eva-Lotta Lamb from the UPA UX Clinic panel in London featuring Steven P. Anderson, Whitney Hess, Dave Gray & Jeff Patton. See more of Eva’s notes from talks sketchnotes on Flickr.
My buddy Austin Kleon artfully stitched together the audio and our slides from the Visual Note-Taking 101 panel we did together at SXSW 2010 this past March. Also on the podcast Dave Gray and Sunni Brown. Enjoy!