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Sketching skills

Group IQ

What happens when you sketch better?

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 manTooth man

Star man(good for drawing crowds)

Star man versatility

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How to draw star man

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.

Why do you need a sketching vocabulary?

Vocabulary

Impact

Symbols Commas

Flow

Punctuation

Storify

Words

Use space for commas

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

Creating flow

A

use arrows to make flow

B

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

happy resignation

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crossed

Drawing age using of eye & mouth

adulttoddler

Use eye-mouth separation to express age

kid adulttoddler

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 thesekeywords (in less than

10 seconds each)

love, robot, key collaboration

communication flower, house, timesummer, 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 monotasking2 Summarise the talk in a A4 paper with sticky notes

3 Share (in pairs)4 Incorporate at least one ‘element’ from peer5 Iterate three times

Share & steal from your peers...

Photo by Alli McKee. d.School. Aug 2015

Sketch “Cold”

When possible visualize “feelings”

boring

impersonal

typical

Sketch “music”

be human-centered

use support icons

focus on the outcome of the experience

use cotidian object

Use body language to express feelings

use unbalanced head to show

distress

Sketch “defeat”

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Yeah!

Sketch “Victory!”

Exercise: How-to gain confidence?

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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

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.

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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.