On the second-to-last day of my trip to Rome this summer, I was tired, lost, and wandered upon an art supply store on a narrow street near Piazza Navona. While there I discovered a product I’d not seen in the US before- masking liquid in a pen- and eagerly bought it for about 7€.…
Previously I’ve written about my favorite supplies, but when it comes to travel- especially international travel, the rules are different! In July 2017 I set off on a 25-day solo trip journeying from iconic spots in Italy, across the Adriatic and down the Croatian coastline and venturing into the mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina.…
I’ve been slowly revamping some of my bullet journal layouts in the last few months. I’m still loving the content, but finding bullet journaling is more fun and less overwhelming for most people when putting together a layout doesn’t require a large amount of time just to prepare a page to begin journaling. Instead, I’ve been focusing…
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to work as graphic recorder at the Redeeming Food and Body Conference. The Redeeming Food and Body conference is an event conference in Seattle, WA each spring hosted by The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. This conference brings in dynamic speakers from the fields of Psychology, Theology,…
The Cascadia Worship and Arts conference, for 2017, was kind of my first event where I was designated as an “official” graphic recorder. The organizer had welcomed small format work so I approached the conference as I would a class. As I write this blog post a few weeks after the close of this conference,…
This term has felt like something of a controlled landslide, and although I have fewer credit hours than the last term, I’ve struggled more to keep up with various areas of my life. To that end, since I’m roughly 10 weeks behind on posting my weekly course notes, I’ve decided to collate the notes from…
After my 3rd term in graduate school for a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, I got interested in Bullet Journaling as a time-saving way to adapt my habit of journaling to the grad-school time-crunch lifestyle. In one of the bullet journaling forums, a visitor posted about possible ways to track triggers and got zero responses-…
You don’t have to be a master of Spencerian handwriting or embellished and flourished scripts to add hand-lettered charm to your bullet journal or classnotes. Recently I took a few minutes to catalog 21 different ideas for non-script hand-lettered fonts that build on basic handwriting (rather than requiring a light box and penciling in…
Almost all good speakers- whether professional speaker or classroom instructor- structure their presentation similarly, moving seamlessly, between information and illustrations. They use stories as examples to capture our imaginations and weave them within periods of information presentation. This rhythm of speaking is the space in which beautiful notes have the space to grow. One of the…
I’m a non-traditional student. In grad school for a master’s degree after a few years in business, I was surprised to find that when I returned to school I had to learn how to write a paper all over again! Staring at a blank screen with a 10 or 12 page requirement looming left me,…
Laurel wreaths are (one of) my recent doodling obsessions. Although I’m working my way through Umoto’s Drawing Cute Animal Illustration Book, I keep coming back to laurels in my sketchnotes and on the scrap pages in my notebook that I doodle on when a speaker is reviewing, answering questions, or telling stories. In my sketchnotes…
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In this post I’m going to demonstrate step by step how I create a banner with folds and shading. If you prefer to watch my process sped up, scroll on down to the video at the bottom of this post. For step by step instructions slowed down and broken into bit size pieces- keep…
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I volunteered at a counseling conference at school this weekend. The material presented was fantastic, but also a lot of review from courses I’m in or have taken at school, so I didn’t take very detailed notes. I always like to keep my pen and paper at hand for when a new idea is presented…
Problem: Drawing Antlers is Hard I love drawing antlers in my sketch notes to frame a quote or concept but, let’s be real, antlers are really hard to draw freehand. I’ve been trying to intentionally practice sketchnote elements I don’t use often because of previous not-great results- and antlers definitely qualify for that category.…