Lettering and numbers Visuals are great, but without words to accompany them they can become very puzzling. Don’t overuse your visual vocabulary – if necessary, write things down. The two most important things are to make your writing legible and embellish it when you have time. Don’t forget to combine uppercase and lowercase letters and […]
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Composition Composition helps to structure content and thus makes it visually more appealing. No matter if in classical art, photography or simple graphics on flipcharts and websites, those rules help to understand the fundamentals of visual alignment. Some of the most frequently used composition rules are: symmetry, rule of thirds, golden ratio, sectors and visual
Color wheel A diagram which constitutes an organisation of colour hues in a circle. It shows relationships between primary, secondary, and tertiary colours. Primary colours are: red, yellow and blue situated at three equally spaced points of a circle. The corresponding secondary colours are: green, orange and purple. Intermediate colour hues represent colour mixtures. The
Perspective First draw a shape. Then draw a straight line that will be your horizon. Draw a point on the line (vanishing point). Draw lines connecting the corners of your shape with the vanishing point. Now define the ends of the shape with vertical lines. When you are done, erase all unnecessary lines. Used for: illustrating depth on a flat
Shading and volume When you are done with basic elements, you can try shading and volume. It attract attention to certain parts and adds depth and contrast to your content. It makes your picture look ten times better with just few additional lines that represent shading and give some volume to your elements. Used for:
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Graphic snapshot If graphic recording is more a visual summary of the whole event then graphic snapshots are more a way to capture visually some of the ideas of the event. Graphic snapshot don’t aim to give an overall picture of all the main key ideas. The advantage of graphic snapshot is that they allow
Visual message The main components of a visual message are words, colours, patterns and shapes. These main components may be used in many different ways to design, produce, transmit and interpret messages. Principles of visual message design are unity, harmony, hierarchy, proportion, similarity and contrast.
Mind maps Mind Map is a highly effective way of getting information in and out of your brain. It is also a tool to visually organize information or to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas. Some tips: use colours, symbols, emphases, associations. Mind maps can be drawn in different shapes, such as a tree, fish, octopus, jellyfish
Sketchnoting Sketchnoting is a way of enhancing memory of the material presented through text and visuals in the form of various hand-made drawings, sketches and doodling (as proclaimed by definition Mike Rohde, author of the book The Sketchnote Handbook, it is a mix of handwriting, drawings, hand typography, shapes, visual elements such as arrows, boxes,
