Learn How to Sketchnote - No Art Degree Required! (Japan SciComm, October 2021)

Have you ever seen a sketchnote? It’s when a person sketches and takes notes, often live, to bring research, public service announcements and TED talks to life. It is a powerful visual tool that engages audiences and makes the content of the lecture more accessible and easy to understand. You can use this powerful tool in your own work. This workshop will show you how.

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to…

Understand why sketchnoting is more engaging and accessible than text-only reports
Sharpen your listening skills to convert ideas into visuals
Create your very first graphic recording—no art degree required!

Transcript

1. CJ Hostetter
   October 26th 2021
   

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2. Me, some years ago
   

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4. Why Sketchnotes are More
   Engaging than Text
   

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5. via SketchOwl
   Katharina Blum
   Mike Rohde
   

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6. The Federalist Society YouTube
   

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8. Sharpen Your Listening Skills
   

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9. Sketchnoting requires us to move both our
   brains and our hands.
   This means we are limited to capturing only as
   much information as our hands can produce.
   

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10. The benefit of this is that we are forced to
    focus on the most important takeaways of the
    talk.
    

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11. 1. What does the audience I’m writing for want to
    know about this talk?
    2. What are the key takeaways? (usually ~3)
    3. What are things I can represent in images rather
    than text?
    Ask yourself...
    

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12. How to Start Sketching
    

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13. There are five basic shapes used for sketchnoting...
    

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14. ...and we combine them to make shapes.
    

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16. Don’t focus on
    drawing well at first.
    Sketchnoting is all
    about listening and
    speed.
    

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17. Let’s listen to our first
    talk. No drawing!
    LISTEN
    5 MINUTES
    

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18. Megan Pozzi
    Winner of Three-Minute Thesis 2013
    

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19. Let’s draw our
    sketchnote!
    DRAW
    5 MINUTES
    

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20. 2 MINUTES
    What was easy for you?
    What was difficult?
    REFLECT
    

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21. Let’s listen to our second
    talk. No drawing!
    LISTEN
    3 MINUTES
    

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22. Yuta Nakagawa
    Winner of Three-Minute Thesis 2020
    

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23. Let’s draw our
    sketchnote!
    DRAW
    5 MINUTES
    

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24. Take your favorite
    sketchnote and polish it.
    DRAW
    5 MINUTES
    

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25. Take a photo and share!
    SHARE
    5 MINUTES
    

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26. Q&A
    

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27. World
    Sketchnoting
    Day
    2021.01.11
    https://sketchnotearmy.com
    /wsd
    

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