The traditional form of drawing and sketching is a highly sought after skill.
Develop your personal drawing abilities by following this collection of 40 great tutorials on advanced drawing techniques, including general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art and some methods for transforming your creations into digital format.
Learn how to draw, cars, hair, skulls, Manga characters, ninjas, hands, human eyes, figures, dragons, clothing, ears, old people and more, in both sketch and vector formats.
"This is an invite to the IFVP Conference
here in sunny Chicago in two months! Already a graphic facilitator? Please join
your colleagues. Not yet? Curious? We'll happily teach you! Think others will be interested? Please
invite them. Thank you!"
Event: IFVP 13th Annual Conference, Chicago, August 6-8,
2008 What: Convention Host: International Forum of Visual Practitioners When: Wednesday, August 6 at 9:00am Where: Chicago, Summit Executive Centre
Gary Hirsch in the Portland, Ore., office of On Your Feet, which he helped found. His consulting firm (a self-proclaimed "miniscule multi-national") helps employees loosen up and make “cool mistakes.”
MANAGERS striving to foster creativity often use the time-worn phrase “thinking outside the box” to encourage workers to come up with something nobody else in the room is thinking. But the improvisational actress Patricia Ryan Madson has a better idea: Look inside the box and take a fresh look at what’s already there.
The author of “Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up,” Ms. Madson helps organizations find new ways to play off one another in an unscripted romp toward what might be. Turning the planning process inside out, she says, is an important part of learning how best to “ready, fire, aim.”
“We’re all creators given the conditions and permission to do so,” she says. “All too often, there are corporate cultures that say: ‘Be creative, but don’t make any mistakes.’ Improv opens doors to doing things a different way.”
This hands-on workshop at the 2008 Chesapeake Bay OD Network Conference in Washington DC will feature practice, discussion and demonstration to provide an introduction to graphic recording – an inspiring and creative technique that uses words and images to capture key content in meetings. Graphic recording allows participants a means of visually working with information while also providing a visual record of the process - a "group memory" - for attendees and a communication tool to share your meeting results with others.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
3-HOUR WORKSHOP
5:30-8:30 p.m.
Ranges from $150 to $325.
You will be given tools and techniques that you can instantly apply to your next meeting.
For over a decade, Deirdre Crowley has been providing innovative graphic facilitation, graphic recording and communication design services to clients throughout North America, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
David Gray, founder of Xplane,
demonstrates in this simple slide show why any business-oriented
visual-thinking person would want to go to this annual conference
created, er... for them!
If you have been confused about the exact utility and function of
wikis, take a look at this very fun and accessible video clip by CommonCraft.
I have be a what you might call a "power-user" of the project management sofeware Basecamp for several years now. And, of Blogger. Oh, and TypePad (which powers this site).
Plus I've sunk oodles of time and ca$h into designing the Web2.0 app for graphic facilitators, MissingLink. All of the aforementioned tools are essentially mutant forms of a wiki--as is the ever popular source of all knowledge, Wikipedia. Each one of these browser-based tools allows multiple users (aka. people) to create, edit and participate in on-line communities.
Article by ALLISON RIGGIO | Contributing Writer | Chicago Journal
It
may be years since most white-collar businesspeople went to art class,
but a new corporate training philosophy might change the way Chicago
does business.
The West Loop’s Catalyst Ranch teamed up with the
Art Institute to develop an arts-based corporate training philosophy
unlike any other.
Aptly named Art-Work, the program utilizes the museum’s artwork as a medium for teaching communication and other business-related skills.
... I have been immersed in a new
tribe: the Visual Practitioners. People who listen with amazing depth
and bring peoples words into a new life in images on the wall. Some are
graphic recorders who focus on accurate capture of conversations. Some
are graphic facilitators who use images as part of a group process.
Some, like me, recognize and thirst for the ability to use image in our
work - regardless of that work.
Read more of her reflections on the presenters and rich conversations on the Onfac Blog.
Visit Nancy's Flickr account where you can see photos and a slideshow of the talented participants and the mindmaps, illustrations and wall maps they created.
Learning to facilitate using a shared visual workspace. A Class with Christine Valenza and Tom Benthin September 29 & 30, 2007 (with a half day followup session in January, 2008) Sausalito, California
Deconstructing Graphic Facilitation is an introductory workshop that teaches the skills necessary to facilitate a group through the use of a shared visual workspace. By creating and refining a display that makes and holds a group’s thinking visible as it does its work, graphic facilitators are able to help groups function more smoothly, more effectively and achieve results more quickly. Because of the central role that using a shared visual workspace plays, this workshop will focus on its use as a primary facilitation tool, fusing the traditional roles of facilitator and graphic recorder into one.
For over a decade, Deirdre Crowley has been providing innovative graphic facilitation, graphic recording and communication design services to clients throughout North America, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
