Adam Walker Cleveland is a recent reader of The Sketchnote Handbook who has been sharing his practice of sketchnoting on his PomoMusings blog.

He writes:

I haven’t gotten to practice as much sketchnoting as I had hoped to over the past couple weeks since reading Mike Rohde’s The Sketchnote Handbook, but last Friday I went to hear Marcus Borg and got to practice a bit. Our church partnered with some of the other progressive churches in town and brought Borg here this past weekend."

and this follow-up from more practice with a TED video:

I watched Amanda Palmer’s “The Art of Asking” (not the Art of Happiness, like I thought when I sketched the title of the video on the note below) this morning and did another sketchnote. I think I’m kind of struggling with the drawing piece of this, but I’m having a lot of fun with it."

Adam, I think you're doing great! I think text-heavy (or I would call these Lettering Focused) are just fine as are your drawings on the Amanda Palmer sketchnotes.

Remember that it's about capturing the ideas — as long as that's working for you, you are enjoying the process and it's capturing ideas for later reflection, you're golden!

Hearing some great feedback about Jess Eldredge's beautiful RailsConf 2013 sketchnotes from portland, Oregon. Above are a few samples from her full collection on Projeqt.

Great work Jess!

Here are some great sketchnotes from Ruud Cox captured at the Third Dutch Exploratory Workshop in Testing (DEWT3). I'm loving the use of blue ink on kraft style paper with color highlights here and there. The first image is a poster Ruud made, the second and third are his workshop sketchnotes.

I take notes all the time. I carry a paper notebook with me that I use at meetings, workshops and conferences. I also use it as a diary and for capturing ideas. After reading The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking recently, I decided to give sketchnoting a try at the third Dutch Exploratory Workshop in Testing that took place over the weekend 20 – 21 April 2013.

From Ruud's article on the DEWT3 sketchnotes at his blog.

Great work Ruud!

Mike Rohde here, introducing our guest writer Veronica Erb, who organized a Sketchnote Army at IA Summit in Baltimore. She's written up a great story about her experience, full of sketchnote images for your enjoyment.

To learn more about Veronica, check out her website, her Twitter feed and her Flickr stream.

Now, on to Veronica:

About six months ago (and about half a year after Giles Colborne and I stood talking in the hall after my sketchnote talk at the 2012 IA Summit), I got an exciting request from Giles: lead a Sketchnote Army at the 2013 IA Summit in Baltimore, April 5-7.

The conference and the sketchnoting went beautifully. Below are ten of my favorite notes from Baltimore. You can see even more in the IA Summit Sketchnotes Flickr group. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Kate Rutter

Kate was one of my Sketchnote Army "officers." Kate did large-scale graphic recordings of all of the keynotes, including "When Disaster Strikes, Where do you Turn?" by Dr. Chris Hagar. I think she is incredibly brave to get up and draw in front of so many people. Check out Kate's website, Twitter, and Flickr account.

Charlene McBride

Charlene was another of my officers. She's been experimenting with sketchnotes on iPad, using Paper by FiftyThree, like these notes for Adam the IA's Brown Dirt User Experience. Check out Charlene's website, Twitter, and Flickr account.

Boon Yew Chew

Boon was one of my officers, and he also spoke at IA Summit about typography (which was captured in Caleb's notes below). Boon's notes of Scott Thomas's keynote, Building the World's Visual Language have a great structure, clean lettering, and just enough color. Check out Boon's website, Twitter, and Flickr account. Y'all should also check out Scott's The Noun Project, a visual language database.

Murray Thompson

Murray has a really cool way to take sketchnotes. He uses a Moleskine with accordion pages to create infinite sketchnotes that simply flow from page to page. Murray also came up with the fantastic idea that we all gather on the last day of the conference to compare notes. I dig his elephant and wise men from Andrea Resmini's talk Ghost in the Shell. Check out Murray's website, Twitter, and Flickr account.

Chad Martin

Chad was a prolific sketchnoter at IA Summit, and also happens to be one of the organizers of SketchCamp. The title at the top of his sketchnotes of the opening keynote, Beyond Mobile, Beyond the Web by Scott Jenson provides a great anchor for the rest of the page. Check out Chad's website, Twitter, and Flickr account.

Caleb Brown

Caleb's been taking sketchnotes without needing a movement to get him started. He does wonderful portraits of speakers in his notes, like these from Friday of the IA Summit. The bottom portion are from Boon's Typography is Information Architecture talk. Check out Caleb's website, Twitter, and Flickr account.

Sarah Flamion

I'm pretty sure that Sarah had never before shared sketchnotes, and I have to say I dig them. Her notes have confident, simple figures and other great illustrations, like the book and comb and toolbox in these notes of Stuart Curran's Stories to Stories talk. Check out Sarah's Twitter and Flickr account.

Christian Sosa-Lanz

I love the portraits and illustrations that Christian took during the Summit (notably in the Field Notes books that we included in our Marriott-sponsored sketchnote kits). I also like his notes-to-self in green, "Follow," "Do," "Look up"—very handy. Check out Christian's website, Twitter, and Flickr account.

Stephanie Schuhmacher

Stephanie was was the only sketchnoter to capture Five Minute Madness, a tradition at IA Summit. And though it might not communicate much to the uninitiated (and really, you have to be there), it's perfect from the perspective of an IA Summit devotee like myself. Check out Stephanie's website, Twitter, and Flickr account.

Camaraderie & Sketchnoting

The Army was a great success. We had three handfuls of people sketchnoting and posting group. Some were veterans, and others were beginners We all had a great time sketching and learning and chatting with one another.

Besides the officers listed above, I had wonderful folks helping out with the Army. Mike provided advice and hooked me up with Peachpit to acquire The Sketchnote Handbook prizes; Giles and Vanessa helped with conference coordination; and Livia Labate at Marriott helped make our awesome sketchnote kits possible. If you want to learn more about the program, check out the official announcements.

Thank you to everyone who participated and who made it possible. For you readers, if you have the chance to coordinate sketchnoters, go for it! It will be a rewarding experience.

PS: I took sketchnotes at the IA Summit, too. You can check them out in my 2013 IA Summit Flickr set as well as in the IA Summit Sketchnotes Flickr group with all the other awesome IA Summit sketchnoters.

 Thanks, Binaebi

Here is a first sketchnote from Andrew Pucci (@andrewrpucci) done on a tablet at IA Summit 2013. Simple, fun, gets the point across.

Thanks Andrew!

P.S. If you want to check out other sketchnotes from the IA Summit, visit Veronica Erb's Sketchnotes group on Flickr!

 Thanks, Binaebi

Here's Rob Horn's first ever Sketchnote from Capgemini Agile Foundations course. I really like the light blue and orange, and the fun Rob is having with the space on the page.

Nice work Rob!

Sean Johnson

Full set on Flickr.

Eva-Lotta Lamm

Full set on Flickr.

You can even buy a poster of Eva-Lotta's work at Society6.

Here's a set of sketchnotes captured by Gavin McMahon from the Food for Thought Conference in Greenville, SC.

From Gavin's post featuring his sketchnotes from the event, he writes:

Food for Thought, I imagine, is like TED before it became TED, with really great food. It’s a unique conference hosted every year by Erwin Penland in the charming city of Greenville SC, and brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, marketers and business leaders. This is the second year I have had the privilege of going.“

Be sure to check out the post for all of Gavin's sketchnotes and his commentary on the event. Nice work Gavin!

Here's a sketchnote by Dr. Makayla Lewis on BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) — "BYOD: A Faustian Pact?" from MoMoLondon.

Check out Makayla's work on her site and sketchnotes on Flickr.