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What happens when you sketch better?

Group IQ

Sketching skills

What is the best sketching tool?

Why felt pen is better than ball pen?

Because felt pen trace is more predictable (lateral friction)

How to sketch people?

Stick man

Tooth man

(good for drawing crowds)

Star man

Star man versatility

neutral

pointing

ballet

How to draw star man 1

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To draw the star-man always start by the shoulders. Then the head. Then the limbs. Play with the curvature of the limbs to express: balance, direction, intention and other human attitudes.

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Why do you need a sketching vocabulary? Impact

Storify Flow Words Symbols

Punctuation Commas Vocabulary

Use space for commas

Frames, containers, space and negative space are the commas and paragraphs of the sketching language.

Creating flow

A

B

use arrows to make flow

Containers for ideas

use containers for paragraphs

Head elevation vs. age

young

old

older

Exercise: Draw the largest crowd you can (30 sec).

Sketching moods using the eyes

O happy

crossed

resignation

Drawing age using of eye & mouth

toddler

adult

Use eye-mouth separation to express age

toddler

kid

adult

In general, age increases with eye-mouth dispersion…

Toddler vs. granma

toddler

granma*

…except for the granma case, where proportions become again those of a toddler* - Akira Toriyama

Use the lips to express a range of feelings

happy

(not so happy)

sad

Exercise: Building a graphic vocabulary

Try to sketch these keywords (in less than 10 seconds each) love, robot, key collaboration communication flower, house, time summer, cold, hot hope, athletic hungry

Teach to steal by forcing people to share...

Getting used to steal People are weary of stealing. But stealing is OK. As long as you give credit. A way to make participants getting comfortable with stealing is by using guided mastery. (See Bandura’s guided mastery, see also #gamification). Exercise: Give each participant four A4 papers. Fill each A4 respectively with: Lines. Triangles. Circles. Squares. Be creative. At each A4 make participants incorporate one interesting ‘element’ from their peers’ previous A4 into theirs.

Test your storyfication skills… 1 Watch Paolo Cardini's talk Forget multitasking, try monotasking 2 Summarise the talk in a A4 paper with sticky notes

Share & steal from your peers... 3 Share (in pairs) 4 Incorporate at least one ‘element’ from peer 5 Iterate three times

Photo by Alli McKee. d.School. Aug 2015

Sketch “Cold”

boring

impersonal

typical

When possible visualize “feelings”

Sketch “music” use support icons use cotidian object

focus on the outcome of the experience

be human-centered

Use body language to express feelings use unbalanced head to show distress

Sketch “defeat”

neutral

total loss

Sketch “Victory!” ! h a e Y

neutral

Yeah!

Exercise: How-to gain confidence? 987654321

When we arrived in the Valley we didn’t know anyone outside our comfort zone. Me and Cesar decided that we would try to make an effort to socialize more with strangers. So every Saturday noon we would go to a random Starbucks. We meet self-taught illustrator Juan Villa at such a Starbucks near Edgewood. He

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taught me this hack: Write numbers from 1 to 9. The left hand writes the mirror image of the right hand. Both hands write at the same speed. Most people are surprisingly good at left-hand mirror sketching. Gain confidence by discovering hidden abilities.

About the author Jose Berengueres received a Masters in Electrical Engineering in Barcelona and a PhD in bio-inspired robots from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has taught Design Thinking and Business Models Innovation in Dubai, California, Germany and Mexico. He also consults on UX and biomimetics. In 2014 he was mentor at StartupWeekend Dubai. He currently is assistant professor at UAE University where he developed The Brown Book of Design Thinking.

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