Category: visual thinking

Unpresenting With Heather Gold in Seattle

You may notice the uptick in blogging. I have such a queue of draft blog posts that I resolved to start getting them out. In April, the amazing, wonderful and talented Heather Gold came to Seattle and ran one of her “unpresenting” workshops for us. While I was still raw from the death of my dad, I was still able to absorb some of her wonderful advice, mostly captured with some sketchnotes. What was most significant for me was that the advice she gave resonated with my best experiences. Being fully present. Don’t focus on content, focus on people, connection and conversation. Be fearless and fully yourself. Own it. Unpresenting with Heather Gold …a few visual notes by @NancyWhite :: bookr ::pimpampum.

Building Our Drawing Confidence

I have been running more graphic facilitation workshops and everyone asks me how to draw icons. Icon drawing comes from both having both a visual vocabulary in one’s head/practice, and being able to draw with just a few strokes. I need a ton of practice in this area, and have started compiling my own “icon” book – basically looking at others’ icons and practicing drawing them myself.

Today via DroolyDog I ran into some slide decks from Betsy Streeter that I found really easy and useful. (I tried to embed them, but today something is amiss, so you’ll have to just follow the links.)

Draw Faces Your Own Way

via Draw Faces Your Own Way.

Here is another on “Drawing Nothing”. !!

How To Draw Nothing

visual introduction with one solid lineMy goal is to do some practice EVERY DAY. Wanna hold me to it? Ask me about it whenever you see me. A little pressure never hurt. But I promise to remain a model of “the person who can’t draw who can do this graphic stuff” — we can all create beauty in our own way!

Here is a yesterday’s practice piece – a visual self introduction. This was my second version. I decided I wanted something with SOME sort of cohesion and chalk coloring in the first version didn’t do it for me. So I decided to do a “one line” drawing. This is essentially keeping your pen on the paper the whole time. Then I went back and colored in. I liked this version better and shared it as part of my work in the AlphaChimp Studio’s online “Graphic Rockstars” workshop.

Collecting Graphic Recording/Facilitation Icon Ideas

I preset this blog post in advance, as I’m on the road again… just when my greens are finally growing in the garden. Timing is everything. I’m off to Pretoria, South Africa and Dar es Salaam Tanzania (with a weekend stop in exotic Zanzibar!) One of the workshops I’m facilitating in S.A. is on graphic facilitation and I’ll be doing the graphic work in Dar. In July and October I’m co-facilitating two more longer form graphic facilitating workshops, sSo it felt like time to show you a little project I’m working on.

Graphic Recording and Facilitation Icon Ideas – Nancy White – Picasa Web Albums.

Now there are a ton of sources out there for icons. Drawing books. Children’s books. Cartoons. Google images. But I realized I needed to PRACTICE and think about the process of drawing icons myself to better encourage that practice with colleagues. So I took a big bite of bravery chocolate, picked up my pens and started creating my own practice book. But instead of keeping it on paper, I’m sharing it online. I usually use Flickr, but frankly Picassa was feeling like a good choice this time.

Do your have a visual practice book you can share? Want to add images to this one?

Social Media for Business Infographic

From David Steele comes this nice infographic that can easily be reinterpreted OUTSIDE of business. (Link below the image.) So no Monday video today. It is Monday Infographic. (Well, since I shared an image from a business, what do you think about this upbeat video ABOUT a company?)

For more great infographics, see here. (Hattip @DavidSibbet )

The Steel Method | The Do’s and Don’ts of Using Social Media for Business.