Illustrated Journaling @ work

Illustrated journaling at work.

The best way to convey ideas is to illustrate or sketch them. 

Use an 8.5 x 11 blank book for your sketches. Daily try to illustrate your ideas.

Copy other simple illustrations you see on the Net or other doodles you like. Don't be bashful about coping other work. This is how great artists learned their craft. Eventually you'll develop your unique style.

These "doodles" or illustrations of ideas you see here started as simple boxes. Sometimes I leave the side, top, or bottom open and draw another box or other type of shape.  Othertimes I draw the main idea or word first, then the box around it.  Then I draw the supporting ideas/shapes underneath.

After drawing the shape, start filling them in with simple concepts.  Or draw the concept first, then the box or shape around it.

The overlap of the shapes show connected ideas, screens, concepts, etc.

Next use a light grey marker to "highlight" the bottom and right sides of the shapes. This makes them "pop" from the page.

You can also use this technique in class for your notes. Write what the speaker/professor says first. If it's important, draw a box around the word(s). During the review or your notes after the class, "pop" your notes using the great marker technique as explained above.   It's highlighting on steroids.

...dave
I am NOT lazy. I'm just reducing my carbon footprint. -dave terry