Sketch: Tortoise

I had saved a pencil drawing of a tortoise from the internet. Unfortunately I can not find the link to the original. I wanted to try a light pencil layer first and then a final layer, but since I did not play around with brushes too much, it did not turn out the way I wanted. Looking back, I should have used lighter and broader pencil for the first layer, and then HB, followed by darker (2B ?

Sketch: Robot

This image inspired by a cartoon appeared in the local newspaper. I liked how simple drawing the robot was. (I’m always looking for simple-to-draw sketches) For the first time, I used color (albeit very tiny, still…) The original sketch had light blue hue for the body of the robot, but I decided not to paint the whole sketch. Just the eyes to draw viewer’s attention was enough. This time also I used multiple layers.

Sketch: Brendan and Al

These are two main characters of O Human Star Comic When I looked at this comics, I really liked how simple the character faces were. So decided to see if I can draw them. I am likely to draw more characters from this comic in the future. These two faces were drawn by looking at this page This is the first time I used layers in HiPaint. First layer is the a pencil drawing.

Sketch: Weight Training

The doodle comes from Dave Gray’s old video (Not sure of the source - sorry) But doodle itself was not the interesting thing. Today I discovered that the Whiteboard app has excellent pen tool. I used the Size 10, and I was able to create excellent calligraphy (if I may say so myself 🫣) Normally I add the date and name in some other app, but I could not resist writing the date in calligraphy fashion.

Visual Alphabet : Session by Dave Gray

This is my attempt to create a sketchnote of the session he delivered during the World Sketchnote Week. 1 Looking at other people’s sketchnotes of this session, I realize that I need to do much better. I’ve just reproduced parts of sketches from his session. Drawing Dave’s face was original idea, rest of it seems unconnected ideas. I should have used banners, containers, lettering etc. Next time. I used a different software this time.

Visual Alphabet

All the (English) words (sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books …) are made up of only 26 alphabets. (Let us leave aside punctuation marks for now 😉)

Similarly, most the (basic) drawing is made up of these 12 basic shapes, hence the visual alphabets.

This English phrase makes it easy to remember

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Deliberate Practice

The idea comes from the book “The Magic of Thinking BIG” Dr. Schwartz makes a point that just persistence is not enough. Each time you try (and not succeed) learn from it, and change something (experimentation) only this will lead to (eventual) success. I tried to show this visually by having different styles the word Try is drawn in the bottom half (but also wrote experimentation - just to be clear 😄)

Sketch: SEO out, AEO in

Once upon a time, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) was all rage. How does your product show up in the Search Engine. But now a days, people have stopped using search engine. Instead they prefer to “get the answer” from one of the LLM/GenAI The Search Engines also now have “AI summaries”, so may be AEO can double as SEO 🤷‍♂️ Software: tldraw.com

Sketchnote in Day to Day Life

This is not shared to showcase my skills 😄 But to remind myself (maybe others 🤷‍♂️) that sketching/drawing doesn’t have to be a big deal. When I make a mental list of things to buy (aka shopping list) I usually write it down if it is more than 2 items (else I’m bound to forget something) Usually, I write it down as a text (doesn’t everyone ? 🤔) But today, I thought in images.

Sketch: Dude and Doc

I had not planned what to draw today. So I decided to use this time for practice. Here is the reference Few things I noticed today. Having a digital canvas has advantages of being able to zoom in. This came in handy when coloring the hair and t-shirt. While at normal scale (no zoom) I have to fill a tiny portion so as not to worry. But I lose precision.