The only 2 (or 3) tools you need to begin I’ve never had people comment on how a bar graph looked before, and it’s because the sketch style stands out! In a recent post on time tracking, I sketched out my bar graph instead of making one in Excel. I know you may not want to create an outdoor family scene, but see how you can communicate an idea with a few simple shapes? With these shapes, you can create many different types of sketchnotes. All you need to begin are a few simple shapes.
This was one of the first lessons I learned from Mike Rohde and Dan Roam’s books. What you can doĬreating these illustrations and sketches only requires the understanding of a few basic elements of drawing and tools that you already have available. The sketches are not trying to invoke a feeling, they go directly to what’s happening. They’re not complicated, but you know right away what’s happening in the scene. The secret all of these professional bloggers share Sarah Cooper started The Cooper Review and wrote the massively successful post (now book) 100 Ways to Appear Smart During Meetings, mostly using hand-drawn illustrations. James Clear, who writes about psychology and habit formation at, has been creating hand-drawn graphs and charts on his posts for over a year. On Videofruit, Bryan Harris has also been using a similar method to make ideas come to life without stock photos. Tim Urban, who runs the massively popular Wait but Why blog, has been creating simple illustrations and sketches on his posts for years. Most of the clients I work with ask me to create blog sketchnotes for their popular posts, because of how it separates from the noise online. Yes, I’m biased, but I’m not the only one who has caught on to this idea. Something that stands out and catches the eye of the reader before they even dive into the text.
But many times, the same or similar photos end up being recycled through the blog-o-sphere. Good writers try to invoke a certain feeling with stock photos, like a sense of adventure, challenge, sadness, etc. How many times have you seen certain photos from Unsplash or Death to Stock be used? Yep, like this one! Props to Steven Lewis on Unsplash This year I stopped using stock photos in my blog posts, and I think you should too.
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