@Mappletons 1/ I guess I’m a purist when it comes to the “sketch” part of sketchnotes. As @brunowinck eluded to, I’m in the camp of “one-and-done” sketchnoters. I rarely do a second pass at them. Once I go back to back to them, I find myself spending too much time making them look “nice”...
@Mappletons @brunowinck 2/ ... and they start to lose something for me. The joy disappears and the anxiety of making something perfect takes over. As a graphic designer, I’m plaques with a self-inflicted perfectionism. #Sketchnotes alleviate that for me.
@Mappletons @brunowinck 3/ Also, the proliferation of “perfect #sketchnotes” cause some first-time sketchnoters to think their work is bad or that it will never live up to “so-and-do’s” work... and that makes me sad. Sketchnotes are personal to the person who did them....
@Mappletons @brunowinck 4/ ... so the purpose of #sketchnotes is loosely defined & then stretched to include informational illustration, or graphic recording, or graphic facilitation (each of those are structured & valid methods of communicating with visuals) and cause people to fight and disagree...
@Mappletons @brunowinck 5/ ... and then (as a result) #sketchnotes gets harped on and relegated to pauper status and unwanted in the visual community, when all it wants to be is fun, informational, personal, and focused. Or it’s transformed into something only certain people can do...
@Mappletons @brunowinck 6/ ... and well, anyways, I’ll end with this: At the #ISC18lx, I gave a talk called “Everything is Beautiful: The Search for the Ugly Sketchnote” were I posed the question of what a Sketchnote is supposed to be. Watch it if you’d like to. #sketchnotes
