 I used to be Talia Lancaster. I don't know if anyone remembers me from 2019. I'm now Talia McEwen. I just got married in December, so I'm still getting used to it. Thank you. Thank you. So I am a professional doodler as well as a scrum master and an angelist. So I actually get paid to take visual notes of events. And to do graphics for people. So I still can't believe that it's a profession, but I love it. And I'm here today to share some of that with you. So this is the start of your sketching journey. I'm from South Africa. I live in Cape Town. I can see the ocean from my house, which is amazing. So I'm very happy to be here with you in person again this year. Okay, so how many of you doodle? So doodling, I remember at school, I used to always kind of doodle and teachers used to say like stop messing around, stop doodling, you know, pay attention. Actually, if you doodle, you are 29% more likely to retain the information even if those pictures aren't necessarily related to the context. So it's really interesting how we taught to not value pictures and to not value kind of drawing and doodling, but it's actually a superpower that we can tap into different modes of learning. And that's what we're gonna be talking about today. So what is sketch-noting? Okay, let's hope my tech works, please everyone. The demo guards. Okay, so sketch-noting, I suppose it's in the name. So in a very basic way, it's using words and pictures. So what we're saying is not that words aren't important, but we're saying that if you add visuals, it can actually enhance that message. It can help you communicate better and it can help you retain information better. So sketch-noting basically is a summary using both words and pictures or images. And it's become quite popular. I don't know if you've seen online, like it's become quite a trend. So it's awesome to see that people are actually tapping into this different way of learning. And the thing is with visuals is that there are a lot of benefits to them. So again, we kind of taught the older we get, you shouldn't doodle, you shouldn't draw, you should only draw if you're an artist. But actually it adds to our communication. So using visuals can actually help with memory retention. So they did a study where they gave people information and they added visuals to it. And 65% of people could remember that information three days later, as opposed to 10% of people who had no visuals. Okay, so there are a lot of studies that show the benefit of it. It can help increase understanding by up to 400%. I know in India, who was saying how many official languages or how many languages do you have in India? A hundred plus. Love, a hundred plus, yeah, I can't even imagine. So in South Africa, we have 11 official languages. And I think we underestimate the fact that English is maybe not everyone's first language. However, pictures are more universal. If you're traveling, you see signs, you see street signs. A lot of that is translatable across languages. So it's really important to kind of use images as well to enhance understanding. It also helps with creativity, it helps you think differently. You'll see now some of the techniques that we're gonna use. You're forced to create links and to contain things and group things and summarize things. And that's a very different way of processing information to just using text. It helps with engagement as well. So we're talking about sketch-noting. So you'll find if you're taking notes while someone's talking, you're way more engaged and you're kind of paying attention to that information. Better communication and then also motivation, especially in learning. So 98% of people who did e-learning see that they were more motivated to learn if they were visual. So, I mean, can you imagine someone just giving you a whole bunch of text? I don't think anyone would be motivated to learn. Speaking of which, that summary that you've just seen, the text version is that. So what we're doing today is kind of taking information and finding creative, more effective ways of presenting it. Okay, and then why should you sketch notes? So if you are sketch-noting, you are actually using kinesthetic learning as well. So you've got visual learning, read-write, and at school, a lot of our learning is actually read-write. We're not encouraged to focus on pictures. And then you've got auditory, which is listening, and then kinesthetic, which is moving. So if you sketch-noting, especially, and I would encourage a lot of you after the session to take notes during the conference, you're activating all four modes of learning. So it can really help you retain the information better and it helps you kind of focus on what's happening. Okay, so what we're gonna focus on today is are there lots of different types of visual thinking? So what we're gonna focus on today is sketching for me, which is kind of here, personal sketch-noting. Where that's really useful is if you're studying. So say you've got a whole bunch of information that you need to summarize and remember, you can kind of do it for fun. So that is not live. So you can take information and take your time to do it. You could also do personal sketch-noting live. So as I'm talking, or as someone's talking, you can do it real time, which is a bit harder. Group workshop, so if anyone's gonna be around on Saturday, we have a poster making workshop on Saturday and this is very much in this space. So that's big visuals to collaborate with people and teams. And then performance sketch-noting. So this is kind of the space that I play in. It's very, very stressful. So this is kind of live sketching for people. So on a scale of kind of easy to hard, we're gonna be starting here today, which is personal sketch-noting, getting you comfortable and confident to draw and kind of learning those skills. And then you can decide to kind of progress if you enjoy it. Okay, and the process is simple. So we're gonna take either written information or, yeah, let's say written for this. You can also kind of listen to information. Then there's a process in between where you have to interpret. You can't draw and write everything. You have to pick out the key points. You have to find linkages between things. You have to separate or connect ideas and then you sketch-note. So it's very, very kind of simple process, but it can be quite daunting when you first start. Okay, and then the other important point is that sketch-noting is not art. Okay, so I love art, but it's got a completely different application to what we're doing today. The more imperfect your sketches, the better because it makes it memorable. And what we're doing is we're representing things. It's not gonna be a super realistic picture of something. It's gonna be very much about representing something. So sketch-noting is actually more about thinking than about giving a very realistic representation of something. So we want to get quick, confident and be able to draw and represent things quickly. Okay, so don't worry. We're not here to create a Mona Lisa. In fact, people who are fine artists find this really difficult because you almost have to unlearn everything you've been taught with fine art. This is very much just about keeping it simple. Okay, and then where do I start? So I think with sketch-noting, a lot of people think you just do whatever and you can. And I would encourage you to play around, but there is actually a set kind of formula to it. And that's what we're gonna do today. So I'm gonna take it piece by piece with you and then we're gonna put it all together and you're gonna have an opportunity to create your own sketch-note today. It's a safe space. So if you're gonna do it, here's a place to try. So think of it like building a house. Each step we do is kind of in order. So we're gonna start with layout. That's about kind of space planning, figuring out where you wanna go with your sketch-note. Then we're gonna talk about text. We're gonna talk about visual cues, which is kind of bullets, lines, arrows, numbering, pictures and people, frames, and then lastly shadows and color. So that's in order. A lot of people could just do layout text, visual cues, some pictures, and that's fine. You don't have to add a whole bunch of color and shading. So kind of this is the process in order. And then if you have time or you want, you can add a whole bunch of color and shading to make it look colorful. Okay, does everyone have a little booklet? Cool, so there should be booklets on your table. There's plenty of space to take notes. I would encourage it, and you can kind of follow along. It's not all in the booklet, so I'm gonna be adding some extra stuff that you can take notes on. Okay, so firstly is layout. So we wanna start with a plan in mind. And there are a whole bunch of different layouts that you can use. This one, the first one I really like, so you would have a title at the top, and then you would put kind of text pictures. You'd work your way down almost in columns, and then go back up to the top, and you kind of create like these three columns on your page. The other one, you can just follow kind of like a flowing route through your page. That can be quite cool if you sketch noting and you wanna use a metaphor of like a journey or a traveling. It's more kind of organic flowing along the page. This one is called popcorn style. So you could do a title in the middle or at the top, and then you would just put chunks of information anywhere that you have a gap. So there's no kind of real order to it. This one, which I like a lot as well, is like a radial or like a mandala or like a clock. So you would actually start, and I go clockwise, so I go one, two, three, four, and I go in order kind of around the circle. And then there's some other ideas. You can obviously just kind of go across the page. Another one, which is quite nice, is like a modular, so you could put the title in the middle, and then you can actually just divide your page up depending on your different chunks of information. Some might be smaller. You can kind of divide it up and actually draw the lines to kind of separate your page. Okay. So an important thing also is to kind of keep some space, because remember you're going to start with text and you're going to build on. So you don't want everything to be full. You want to make sure that you're planning and you have enough space. Very difficult to do when you do it live because you don't always know what's going to happen. And you can also do landscape. So if you want, sometimes information is kind of more, maybe like a list. You could do something like that and you can just kind of contain each chunk. Some may be smaller, some may be bigger. So you can kind of just do a straight down kind of list. Yeah. Okay. So when you see kind of infographics or sketch notes, think about how they've laid it out because there are plenty of kind of ideas out there in terms of how you could do different layout. Okay. Easy. There is a space there on page two of your book if you want to invent your own. So you're welcome to put a different layout in there. Okay. Cool. The next thing is text. So you're probably thinking, why am I talking to you about writing? Because everyone's been writing since they were kids. Okay. But there is a kind of process to this in terms of how you would do your text in a sketch note. So essentially you want to make sure when you start you're going to start with a title. And your title can kind of be big and bold. I would suggest you also summarize. And this is where that interpretation comes. Think of something fun and short for your title. So that's the first thing that you're going to do. Then you're going to add your subtitles. And I suppose we kind of used to it with Word and PowerPoint. You have kind of different hierarchies of text. So you're going to add kind of your subtitles next. Any other main points. And then if you have kind of little bits to add. So your text kind of goes first. Bearing in mind you want to summarize, you want to keep it short. You want to find ways to kind of represent things where you're not just rewriting a whole big paragraph. Okay. So that's kind of the order of it. And then you can have fun with typography. So think of the topic. Think of if there's a fun way you could tie the topic into your font. But just bear in mind, if you have 10 different types of fonts, it's going to get very busy. And we're still going to add pictures and color and borders and all of that. So I would suggest for your sketch notes, come up with a bold, fun font for your title and subtitles. And then just use your normal handwriting for the rest. So I would suggest limiting to kind of two or three styles per sketch note. Okay. And you'd be surprised how much we already can do with what we know. So for example, just doing all caps, that's kind of a style in itself. It is quite nice for headings because then you're not going to have things kind of hanging, sometimes you have letters that are long or short so it can get hard. So all caps are really good for headings. And then if you want to make that special, you want to make like a serif font, you can just add little lines to the edge, which is a really quick, easy way to make like a Times New Roman serif font. Another cool one is, and I do this quite often as a style is just to use all small case and not capitalize. Or you can kind of mix, you can have small, capital, capital, small. So if you're doing that as a style, you can mix once. Bubble letters are also super cool. I would suggest doing in pencil first, your writing, and then just go around it in pen or marker. So that's a really easy way to do bubble letters. And you can actually have fun with it. You can do very thick, you can do very thin. And the nice thing with this is that it gives you space to also color in. So it kind of creates a whole different style. And you could do kind of rounded versus square. So already you see how much you can actually do just with typography. And they're people who actually only do typography. It's so big, you can do so much. Another one which we're not gonna spend like three days learning proper calligraphy, because that's a whole different ball game. But I can teach you kind of a trick if you want to make it look like calligraphy for your headings. So what I do is I kind of do either like a cursive or like a scribbly font. So I don't know if you guys at school had to do cursive. Yeah, okay, cool, so that's also one we all know. So you're gonna do that as you're heading. And then the trick here is that we don't need fancy calligraphy brushes and all of that. All you do is you go back and then on every down stroke. So where your brush would be going down, you just make it thicker. So I would go up here, here it's going down. So I'm gonna make that line thicker. Okay. I'm going down here, so I'm gonna make this line thicker. I'm going up on this side of the E, I'm going down. This I'm going down. So you can actually make it look like you've used a proper calligraphy brush. Here, go up, here on this little thing I'm going down. Easy. You can even just do kind of normal font and then use the same rule. So on every down stroke, and what I do is I kind of trace it with my pen and when I go down, I just make it thicker. So these would be thicker. I mean, I could do fonts all day, but I think people might get bored. Okay, is that enough for now? You've got enough to work with. Okay, I'm gonna give you maybe a minute just to play around on the page, next to a thing on page three. Play around and actually try some things out. We need some music while we're busy. Can you help me put ads in here? Fix my tech, quick. Okay, awesome. Has everyone invented a brand new font? You must tell me so I can use it. Okay, I think that's better. Okay, awesome. Okay, so we've done layout, we've done font. The next thing is that I've lumped it all together, but you can have a lot of fun with this. So I don't know if anyone has seen online that people who do like bullet journaling, so they're very neat and they have like planners and things. Okay, so people who bullet journal pretty much use a lot of this, so you can actually do a lot with this. So this is bullets, numbering, connectors, arrows. So bullet points, what they do is kind of separate ideas. As soon as I put a bullet point there, I know that these things are their own standalone point. And you can have a lot of fun with them. So obviously, you know, kind of the main bullet, the sub-bullet, which are just circles. What I like to do is almost like an open square. Even with teams and that, if I'm taking notes with teams, I'll do something like that. And then I know if a task is done, I can put a tick in there. If a task is canceled, I can put a cross in there. If it's in progress, I can put a dot. So you can almost create your own language or your own interpretation of these things, especially if you're sharing these with other people or for yourself. You can do triangles, you can do stars. So all of these things can become a bullet point. What I do often, if I know that there's an issue or a risk, I put like an exclamation point and I put it in a triangle. So I know that that point is an issue or warning. If it's an extra point of information, I put an eye and a circle around it. So suddenly bullet points, which we thought was just one thing, could mean a hundred different things. You can also have fun with it. So a cute one is like a circle with three smaller circles, which is like a little animal paw. Okay, and then the difference with bulletting and numbering is that, and we know this as agilists, what else, sugar. So if these things are bulleted, there's kind of no hierarchy. It doesn't matter which one you get first. As soon as I number it, okay, bread is more important, then milk, then sugar. As soon as I number it, it gives an order of priority. So just be conscious of your numbering things. It implies that there's an order of priority or there's a sequence in terms of a process or steps that people have to take. Okay, cool. So again, I'd encourage you to kind of play around with that and see how many different types of bullets and things you can create. Okay, the next one is connectors, separators and arrows. So let's say we've got lots of ideas and information. An easy way to kind of separate things very quickly is to use a line to separate them. You can also, and we're gonna go into more detail with this and make it a bit more fun, you can also kind of contain it to say this is idea one, this is idea two. A way that you can kind of show direction or show a connection between something is using a line. So if this information relates to this idea, I can actually put a line or a arrow. And suddenly now we actually sorting information and sorting ideas in a very quick and easy way. And there are also kind of different psychological meanings to this. So if I do like a thin line versus a thicker line versus the dotted line, what do you think those would mean? What do you think the difference between those would be? Did everyone hear that? Okay, so a thicker line can show a strong connection between something and a thinner line could show a weaker or a subtle connection and a dotted line could be like an indirect connection. So again, it's interesting how much meaning these things can have and we often don't really think about it. You can also use lines to highlight information so you can underline something. You can use, I mean, you'll see this often in my work, these like three little lines which kind of makes it shine. So you can make words kind of stand out just using lines. So how are you feeling up until now? Easy, pardon? Interesting, okay, cool. So usually people up until this point are like, cool, I got this, you know, it's manageable. All stuff that we use every day. We're now gonna go on to the fun part, pictures and people. So this is sometimes where people get a bit nervous, but I promise, yeah, the dotted line. Sorry, let's just go back. So dotted line could mean kind of indirect. You know, so often if you have like a dotted line, it could mean also like subtle or indirect. So maybe idea one and two are somehow connected, but not really. Dual reporting, exactly, like an organogram. So we have like a solid line and then a dotted line which is like indirect or sometimes even like informal. So it's amazing actually how many visuals we use every day. You know, like a lot of this is familiar to us. Okay, and this is maybe where it gets a bit more exciting is pictures and people. Okay, so how many of you are confident drawing pictures? Okay, awesome, okay, that's good. How many of you maybe used to enjoy drawing when you were a child? It's amazing, so what happened? Life, life happened. I feel like sometimes somewhere along the line, someone said, oh, that's not autistic or you don't have autistic, you know. So somewhere along the line, we got discouraged. And again, this is not art. Okay, this is thinking. This is an extension of your thinking. Okay, and this is a really cool trick, right? So think of everything in the world as made up of basic shapes. Okay, so we're not trying to make like a super realistic with like three dimensional, you know, drawing. We're trying to do a very quick representation of something. So we use these elements, so line, a spiral, or like a squiggly line, triangle, square, rectangle or circle. Okay, and from this you can draw anything. Okay, so for example, like a flip chart. How I draw a flip chart really quickly is just a line, another parallel line, a line across, line across, and a line at the back. Flip chart in one, two, three, four, five lines. Okay, cool. The squiggly line, super easy. We could do a cloud, triangle. You could do something like a fish. A square or a rectangle. So you could start with a rectangle, do a line across the top, a line at the bottom, do a little line and a circle, and you've got a cell phone. If you make a square, it's a tablet. That, I mean, you can use all the time. Okay, a circle. One I like, but I've realized now with the keynote this morning, I need to learn how to draw energy saver bulbs. Because I like to do like light bulbs. But this is like the old fashioned one. But I still like it. Okay, so with a circle, you can do a light bulb. With a triangle and circles, you could do, for example, like a triangle. Give it three circles. You've got an ice cream. What I love also, like it's a square and a circle. So when I draw a puzzle piece, I actually draw the corners first. I suppose you could think of it almost as doing like a pencil square. So when you think of it, it's almost like that. So I do the corners first. I go in, out, in, out, or whichever way, and you've got a puzzle piece. A nice game to play also is to kind of look around. And if any of you have kids, I don't, but I've got like nieces and nephews and that is a fun game to play, to kind of walk around and say, how would I draw that really simply? What you can do also is, if you need inspiration, you can actually Google, so like Google ice cream, but then say icon or clip art. So often the simplest form of something would be like an icon. And basically this is like learning another language. So you're going to have, you're going to build on your language in terms of what you can draw. And you can get kind of more fancy, more 3D or you can keep it simple. Like one of the things I love to do is like a stack of books. So I would just do like this, try and match them up so it's the same on both sides. And then you just join it with a line. Okay, so pretty much like the world is your oyster, but keep thinking simple. As long as it looks like it represents that thing. And often, you know, if you don't love it or if you feel like it doesn't look like that, just label it. Remember it's not about perfection, it's not art. So if you're spending 50 minutes trying to make something look super realistic, you could probably move on. Okay, and it's practice. Like when we learned how to read and write, we had to practice. Okay, so I'm gonna give you two minutes to just play around with some ideas of objects. I see we've got some budding sketch notices here. And the thing is in agile, you know, we have to learn and understand and communicate complex, you know, ideas and complex things. And this can really help to explain things to people or to learn new things. So it is kind of a really cool tool to have when you're working with teams as well, or even just for yourself to kind of advance your learning as well. Okay, cool, ready to move on. I know, we could just draw all day. Okay, next thing, and this is very useful. You can kind of stop at objects, but I feel like it limits you. So the next thing is people. So how do we represent people, emotions, faces, et cetera? I'm here to tell you that stick people are people too. Stick people are okay. Okay, so at school or whatever we were told, you know, you need to be more realistic. No, you can use stick people, especially if you're trying to draw quickly. The thing is you can actually do them more interestingly. So if you think of a stick person, you might have a stick man or a stick woman, but you can actually give them a lot more character by using, so there's like a chess person, so you can do a head and like a half circle, give it legs. I do like a little bubble at the bottom of my feet. You can even just give it like an arm, that's like a bubble. So it helps to kind of give them a bit of substance, give them a bit of body. So you've got like a chess person, you've got a bean person, which are really fun because you don't have to be accurate. You just make like a bean shape, give it legs, give it arms, and you've got a person. You can also do, instead of a bean, you can do a square. It's quite nice to kind of try and give them some movement. So if someone's kind of running, you can make the body go in a different, you know, you wanna kind of make that body move. And a nice thing to do also is to just get someone to model for you or use your own body to kind of say, which way would my legs go if I was running or if I was jumping, what would it look like? Okay, and then you can also do like a star person where you basically just do the legs and the arms all in one kind of movement. And you'll find your style, you'll find something that you like that works for you. Either you're gonna like kind of the more square shapes or you're gonna like the more organic kind of rounder shapes. We don't have time and unfortunately to get everyone to model and jump and do poses, but it's definitely something to kind of practice because once you have a few poses down, you can actually show a lot of expression and movement through that. Okay, so there's some examples. So it's amazing what you can do as a people. You don't have to go further. You can, but this is more than enough to kind of communicate different things. It's like a sound of concentration here. I'll have a bit. Okay, so now that we have people and kind of bodies and movement down, we're gonna talk about expression. So expression is a really cool way to convey emotions. I think also especially in what a lot of us do in software development, it's important to have that human element. So emotions are sometimes a lot more memorable than just objects. So in your book says this grid and this is kind of the best way I've found to explain this. So you can use three shapes and show a whole range of emotions. So across the top here is the eyebrows. So those would kind of go down and across the side is the mouth. So here I'm gonna go and I'm gonna put this mouth across that row. I'm gonna put this mouth, this mouth. And then I'm gonna put the eyebrows going down. So originally it was this shape but I've kind of split them. Otherwise people have unibrowls. So I'm gonna put the eyebrows that way, eyebrow. Okay, this person does have a unibrow. So a lot of our emotions is actually in our mouths and in our eyebrows. So if you just have eyes and a nose, you're not gonna see any emotion. A lot of it is if you surprise your eyebrows go up, if you're angry they go down. So in this grid is pretty much every emotion you'd need to know how to draw. Easy, see everyone can draw. Some people who sang before the workshop they said I'm not gonna come because I can't draw. And I was like everyone can draw. Okay, and then you can have fun with it. So you'll find your own style. So you can do eyes, what I do is I do a circle and then I do a line over it which makes it maybe look a bit more realistic and I do like a little line for a nose. Eyebrows I kind of squiggle. So you'll find your own style. You could just do dots. You could do like a round nose. So play around with different styles as long as it's quick and it feels like authentic to you but you can really kind of look around and play with different types of styles. Again, we're just trying to be as quick as possible to convey what we wanna convey. Okay, sorry I know I'm moving quite quickly but I will give you time at the end to put it all together into a sketch note. Okay, so it's very easy if you need to draw a suitcase or a fish or a phone because it's a literal object but what happens if you have to draw something like strategy or communication or management or collaboration? So what we find is often they're kind of like abstract terms. So what you are doing in that situation and again it's about like building up your vocabulary, building up how you would represent things. So if we take strategy as an example, what I sometimes use for strategy is if I do like a square, a rectangle, a bigger rectangle, bigger rectangle and then three lines and a star. I've drawn this very close to the one end. You could have like a telescope with the star to show like a north star for strategy. I mean maybe more simple. You know now how to draw puzzle pieces so you could draw maybe puzzle pieces fitting together and maybe some separate. What else? How would you kind of represent strategy? Magnifying glass, definitely. So circle, another circle, a line, a rectangle and then a line like that. I sometimes like to give it like a little shine. Okay, cool. So we're gonna play a game and I'm gonna play it with you. Okay, so this is called visual jam. So I wonder, let me maybe just use a flip chart. Otherwise it's gonna be on the screen. I'll just put a, cool. So I want you on one of your blank pages in your book even, just make four kind of squares, make a grid. Okay, cool. I need a timer for this. Okay, so especially this is kind of training you if you wanna do more live note taking. Your guys flip charts are very different Charles. Okay, cool. So you're gonna make a grid. So we're gonna do four words. So you've got four different spots. Okay, and I'm gonna do it with you and I also don't know what's gonna come up but I'm just gonna turn around so everyone can do their own. Okay, so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna give us 30 seconds and we're gonna draw a concept. Okay, who wants to give us a word? Okay, what's a word that we could draw? Think abstract. What are some of the things that you come into contact with in agile or at work? Growth, awesome. That's a good one. Okay, is everyone ready? Do you have an idea? Okay, 30 seconds start. Just one, yeah. Good question. Okay, so we're drawing growth. Okay, so growth. I'm gonna start the timer. Okay, go. Okay, that's kind of how quick you have to be especially if you're doing live sketch noting. Okay, next word. We're gonna do four words, so that's the first one. Transformation. This one's hard, hey. But let's do it. Okay, transformation. Okay, time's up. Be kind to us next person. Okay, next one. Challenges. Be kind, okay. Do we wanna do challenges? Okay, let's do it. Okay, last one. Be kind, let's do it. And the thing is, it is hard, right? So to visualize complex things or intangible things is hard. But if you can, you'd be surprised how that helps you kind of interpret and remember things. Okay, I'm gonna show you mine. And maybe if you can all kind of hold yours up to your table. It's great to look at how other people did it because you may get ideas. Okay, but that's just my interpretation. Everyone's gonna have different ways of visionizing things. Growth, exactly. So growth, you could have transformation. Transformation is a hard one. So I always do some kind of cocoon in a butterfly or something. Did anyone else have something different for transformation? I'd love to know. Oh, that's called transformation like a circle, a triangle, a square with arrows. That's easier. I love that. So from like an old school Nokia to a smartphone. Love that. Love that. Okay, so ice to water. You see, so you learn. If you share and you kind of chat with other people, you'll actually find different ways of representing things. So it helps to, although it can be scary, it helps to share your work and brainstorm with other people as well. Awesome, well done. I'm very impressed. Okay, cool. And that's kind of the hardest. The hardest thing is to draw life. But it is fun because you can't spend 10 hours on it. So it is fun because it forces you to keep it simple and to be quick. Okay, awesome. Okay, frames. Okay, so we're on number five. We're almost done. And then you guys are gonna do your own sketch note. Okay, so frames you can have a lot of fun with or you can do it really simply. So imagine now you've got your sketch note. You've done your title. You've done kind of your other text. You've added some pictures. You've added some people. Now what you'll do is you'll start to actually contain it. So you can use, so the trick is here to do the text first because if you don't, if you do contain it first, you might run out of space. So it's like really frustrating if you do that and then you like conversation, converse, say, and then around about there, you realize that you definitely don't have enough space and then it's like something like that. Okay, so you always wanna kind of do your text first and then contain it afterwards. So you can go really simple like a square block. You could do kind of like a rounded block. What I like to do is if it's like a quote or something, someone said, then you can do some kind of speech bubble which is essentially just a triangle with either a square or a kind of rounded block. So speech bubbles are great. Also what's good because it doesn't have to be perfect is like a thought bubble. So when I take notes for myself and I have an idea or a thought but it's not coming from that person, I'll kind of put in a little thought bubble, you know, so that I know everything thought bubbles is like an idea or something I've thought about. And then you can actually just have like a lot of fun with it. So to do like a sticky note, you would do a square but then before you close that last corner, you do a triangle inward and then you join those two. So it makes it look like the corners folded up. Okay, and then you can also do like fancy frames. For example, like a box and then what I do is do like a little half circle in the corners and then a half circle midway on the length and then I just join them with like a little curved line and that makes it look like almost like a picture frame and then I add like a little nail in the wall and a line. If you sketch noting and you don't have space around your text to close it that's fine. So say for example, you've got like a heading and then you've added a really cool picture next to it so that you remember like here's an envelope. So you remember kind of what that is relating to the text. If you need to contain it and now I don't have space really, it's gonna get messy to try to go around the text like that. What you can do is actually contain the text but let the picture break that container. And then the trick is to leave a gap between the container and the picture. So what that does is it actually gives an illusion that the container is behind that picture. Makes it almost look kind of 3D. Okay, and then there are also a whole bunch of flags which are really fun. So flags, my favorite one, you do almost like a backwards S, a forwards S. Just wanna make this a bit longer. You do a line so you can imagine your text would be here. You do a line obviously thick enough for your text and then you do a line the width of your top line. And then you wanna just check kind of the gap here must match the gap here. So if you can imagine it must try be the same width when you draw it. So then I'm gonna draw down and I'm gonna leave it, leave a bit of a gap underneath and then just join it all. And I've got a flag. The simpler version of that would be like a rectangle and then behind it two squares and then you just join the back and the front corners like that. Okay, we onto our final section because I wanna give you time to also sketch note. And here's the thing, right? Here's a prime example is we always kind of run out of time. So if you run out of time, your color and your shading is what you do last because it doesn't really change the meaning. It just makes it look cooler. So that can kind of be something that you play with right at the end. So with shading, a funny thing is I don't know in India but like in South Africa, I always picture the light source coming from the top right, which means the shadows would be on the opposite edge. Americans, I don't know why. Are there any Americans? I must do like a survey. Do the opposite. So if I look at like American sketch note is the shadows are all the opposite way. It doesn't matter. Just be consistent. So if you picture like an imaginary sun, anything opposite that's gonna be in shadow. So for example, if you have a block like this, your shadow is gonna be on the side of that block. And then also don't go right to the end. It gives an illusion of making it like 3D. So I'm not gonna go right to the end of that block. I'm gonna leave a little gap and then it also makes it look like it's 3D. You can also pretend like the light source is coming from above in which case all your shadows would kind of be over it. I mean, under it. So it looks like it's hovering. And all you do is you take a light gray marker and you just go over your sketch note and just kind of on the left side of everything just add shadows. And it really does make a difference. It makes it look a lot more kind of 3D. Okay. And then lastly is color. So try to use one color. So you can do a lot with just one color or two colors. If you're using 10, it's gonna be a lot of time and effort. And sometimes it doesn't add more value. Okay. So what you can do is you can use similar colors. So you can use kind of shades of blue, shades of green, yellows and oranges, or you can use opposite colors which are called complimentary if you wanted to be bright and there to be a big contrast. So that would be like purple and yellow, or complimentary, blue and kind of orange. So it's actually that way, pink and green. Okay. So we've got markers for you guys to play with. So we're gonna hand out some markers. And there's also a four paper on the table. So if you guys have tablets in that you can play around with virtual sketch notes or digital. But to be honest, it's really great to start with pen and paper. Because there's no kind of learning curve from a tech perspective. So today we're gonna do pen and paper. There are pencils around. So if you wanna start with your layout and do light kind of pencils to lay it out, then you can. What I've also done is I've printed out the Agile Manifesto. So there's the four values and the 12 principles. So I thought that could be really nice inspiration if you wanna do like a sketch note on the Agile values. Otherwise you could sketch note about anything. You could do a sketch note on this workshop if you wanted to. So you can pick your topic. Okay. And then I think we should play some music and I'll walk around. So if you have any questions or anything, then I'll be around. Okay, I'm just gonna do that. Okay, so these markers I've got a thick end and a thin end. Please don't take them because I've got a workshop on Saturday and you need them again. But we're gonna be using the thinner end for this. On Saturday for the posters, we're gonna use a bigger one. I want to start in which one is bigger. But I usually use this one. I'm seeing some of my cooking photos there on my channel. I've kind of been walking around. There've been a few questions. If there's time, I wanna spend a minute or two maybe showing you the digital version of this and the tools that I use. So let's maybe do that quick. For this presentation, it was actually an experiment. It was my first time plugging my iPad in and drawing on slides. So I used Keynote because I've got an iPad, but I'm sure that PowerPoint would also have like a pen tool that you could draw on. So what I can also do is I'll clean up these slides, I'll delete the blank ones and I'll upload them on the conference site. So you have it. But basically with this, I could pick with the Apple Pencil. As soon as I start drawing, it brings up like a pen tool. And then I could pick. There's even one that I think converts. No, it's not gonna work now because the demo guards. There's one that converts if you write, it actually converts it to text. So this is Keynote. It's Apple. Apple's not for everyone. So I have an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil. What I like is that I can lean on the iPad and draw. So for me, it's got a very much like a pen and paper feel to it. So I think whatever setup you get, just make sure your stylus, this is Bluetooth. So just make sure you don't have to keep your hand off the thing to draw because that makes it a lot harder. But I think nowadays you can get Android and stuff that does the same. When I do other things, I use an app called Procreate. The reason I got an iPad was because Procreate was only available on Apple. I think it still is. But there are hundreds of other drawing apps that you can use. I like Procreate because I'm quick on it. So the only thing with digital drawing is there's a learning curve in terms of just getting quick on the tech. So this was a sketch note I did of Anita's talk this morning. But it took me, oh thanks. It took me a year or two to get very quick. And I use a lot of gestures. They're like double tap to undo, triple tap to redo. You're working with layers, so digital can be awesome because it's editable. You can move stuff around. But there is also a bit of a learning curve just to get quick on it. The nice thing about Procreate is that it also records in the background a time-lapse video. So what I often do is just export it out. It's almost like a byproduct of the sketch. But sometimes animation can take days to do. So this for me I love because it actually is just like a byproduct of the sketch. It's got all my mistakes and it's very linear. So it's really limited as like a video, but it's quite fun to share. So it's already on Twitter as well if you guys wanna see. So that's what I use. If I'm drawing in vector, I use Fresco, which is an Adobe product. Because then I can draw straight into vector, SDG, you know, and call it, it's a bit more editable. Okay, any sketching is M. So if I do take sketch notes, the conference, I will post them under that name so you can follow me. And then if you take sketch notes, you can tag me. I'd love to see.