This document provides an overview of sketch noting by Kumar Ahir. It discusses the tools, elements, and techniques of sketch noting including using pen and paper, drawing basic shapes, text, containers, connectors, and highlighting. It emphasizes practicing the fundamentals and provides examples to draw. The document also shares tips, inspirations from other sketchnoters, and references for learning more.

1. Sketch Notes
Kumar Ahir
Sep 2018
Twitter: @kernel_kumar

2. Since 2004
Interaction Design, IDC
MahaWar - strategy board
game
OoBI alpha - first
multitouch
Microsoft, Symantec, CISCO
OoBI - Out of Box
Interactions - oobi.in
Exit to NewsCorp
AR/VR startup
A brief walkthrough
@kernel_kumar
kumar.ahir@gmail.com

3. Am an entrepreneur now bit selfish
Evangelize VR
Design inferences
Get ideas
Increase product reach
“2018 - Investing in talking to people”

4. What do you sketchnotes
Presentations
Seminars
Meetings - clients, team
Travel
Life
Ideas
...

5. Warm up
Fold in Eight parts
Draw whatever word I say in
those 8 blocks
Flower Tree
jungle listen
Traffic playground
play
Laugh at perfection.
It is boring and keeps
you from being done
Laugh at perfection.
It is boring and keeps you from being done

6. Time to Meditate
5 mins

7. Fundamentals
Tools - Pen and Paper
Elements of drawing
How to Draw
Listening
Processing - what to note
Practise

8. Pen and Paper
Felt pin tip pen
Highlighter
100 gsm paper book
Sprial is better
Hardcover
Keep them together - Always
Brustro Artists' Sketch Book Wiro Bound A5-160 GSM

9. Ready for practise
Next sections have practise
points
For each point draw a figure
in each block of the sheet

10. Elements of Drawing -
Basic shapes
alternatives to plain black bullet
points
mark items of the same category
Communicate concepts
Group them to make complex ones
Practise
Diversity
Equality
Rocket

11. Elements of Drawing -
Text
Straight
Cursive
All caps
Practise consistency in writing
Make your own font

12. Elements of Drawing -
Emphasis text
stand out on the page
Headings, titles
Important takeaways
Use bold, block print for headings
Quick exercise to write
emphasis text on
whiteboard
Sad
Progressive

13. Elements of Drawing -
containers
collect a group of thoughts
emphasize one primary point
thought cloud
Features
Group of items
Practise
Date and Time
Achievement

14. Elements of Drawing -
connectors
connect one idea to another
illustrate chronological items
timelines or cycles
Sequence
Process
Flow
Step by step
Practise
Cab booking

15. Elements of Drawing -
human
Stick figures
Male vs female
Adult vs child
Side vs front
Expressive body postures
We are not doing ART - be CRAP !
Use only for showing human
interactions
Avoid when not necessary
Practise
Political speech

16. Elements of Drawing -
Faces
Draw my face

17. Elements of Drawing -
Faces
Basics and proportions

18. Elements of Drawing -
Faces
Emotional connect
Capture features
● Hair, facial hair
● Shape of face
● Forehead
● eyebrows
Expressions
Side vs front
Proportions
Practise
Draw face of person sitting next
to you. Don’t detail

19. Elements of Drawing -
Icons and symbols
visuals to your sketchnotes
Present objects visually
Practise
Chair
Building
Network
database

20. Elements of Drawing -
highlighting
Shadow
Depth
Realism
emphasis
Sketchnote by Eva Lottchen

21. Basics of drawing
Contrast
Compare
Judge
Difference
highlight
Repetition
Emphasis
Sequence
flow
Alignment
Group
Easy
text
proximity
Group
opposite
Be a crap sketcher

22. Tips and Tricks
First section of you finger as reference
Write text towards the edges
Visuals on top or left of text
Visuals same size as text height
Max 2 colors - 1 for sketch 1 for highlight
It is progressive so, it is incomplete. All the time !

23. Advice
Give yourself Grace
Practise - listen podcast - listen FIRST
Build your visual library - use sparingly
Practise type - write more - use post its - use bold pens
Free your hand - scribble - simple shapes
Communicate with team visually
This is not ART !
Follow Practitioners - Mike Rohde, Eva Lotta Lamm

24. inspirations

26. Rasagy Sharma - https://medium.com/hasgeek/notes-from-the-diversity-meetup-by-hasgeek-cb3b6c22ea9b

27. Eva Lotta Lamm - https://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/8021333748/in/album-72157607235674386/

28. Eva Lotta Lamm - https://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/5712318545/in/album-72157607235674386/

29. Practise
Overload
Indecision
Together
Party
Corruption
VR/AR
Blockchain
Splash
Accident
Let’s SketchNote
https://www.adobe.com/au/events/symposium/online/creativity.html?tr
ackingid=LZ32T25L&mv=email#md9bf9140a037cf1f66839a912831fcb8
Loyalty
Rejection
Results
Profits
Future
Deception
Spectrum
Prompt

30. Sketchnote on sketchnote

31. references
https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast
http://rohdesign.com/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/8218252520/in/album-72157607235674386/
http://www.schrockguide.net/sketchnoting.html
http://www.schrockguide.net/sketchnoting.html
https://www.amazon.in/Brustro-Artists-Sketch-Bound-A5-160/dp/B00PP6RH9G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&
qid=1536369194&sr=8-1&keywords=sketch+notebook