A visual thinking business that uses hand-drawn pictures to make things clear, simple, & fun

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Hand-drawn pictures can make things clear, simple, and fun in blogs, too!

Visual Thinking: How to Draw a Fancy Letter F

melinda carpenter August 28, 2015

Here's a quick video that shows how to draw a fancy letter F. Give it a try!

Visual Thinking: Be More Visual Video Series

melinda carpenter August 23, 2015

Here's a simple and quick visual thinking exercise that can be used as a warm up for creative work, too. Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel (One Squiggly Line) for other other videos related to visual thinking and creativity!

One Squiggly Line is a visual thinking business that uses hand-drawn pictures to make things clear, simple, and fun - so you can get stuff done! Services include graphic recording, illustration, sketch animation, and other visual and creative services. www.OneSquigglyLine.com

Visual Thinking is Productive Thinking!

melinda carpenter April 6, 2015

What's so great about visual thinking? Watch this quick sketch animation to find out!

One Squiggly Line is a visual thinking business that uses hand-drawn pictures to make things clear, simple, and fun. Services include graphic recording, illustration, sketch animation, and other visual & creative services. www.OneSquigglyLine.com

Visual Thinking & Sketch Animation: One Squiggly Line

melinda carpenter March 9, 2015

I added this quick animation to my Services page. Unfortunately, many sketch animations are confidential, created only for internal company use, so they can't be shared. But they're a great way to bring training materials, sales presentations, product highlights, or any other information to life.

One Squiggly Line:

A visual thinking business that uses pictures to keep things clear, simple, & fun...in blogs, too!

Visual Thinking:

Words and pictures used together to engage the whole brain and turn information into knowledge that can lead to wisdom and action.

It's about communication, not art!

Graphic Recording:

Large-scale visual notes drawn live, in real-time, usually in color.

Visual notes:

A catch-all term for notes of any size created with a mixture of words and pictures, and may or may not be created live.

Sketchnotes:

Small-scale visual notes drawn in real-time. They may be created live or from audio or video files. My sketchnotes are usually black & white.

Graphic facilitation:

Facilitation of a meeting through the use of visuals. Often involves the use of templates and worksheets. Popular for problem solving, brainstorming, goal-setting, and strategy sessions.

Synthesis images:

Illustrations created to simplify complex information, drawn in the style of graphic recording or sketchnotes. Synthesis images are usually in color and generally created from print materials (like a company report or brochure).

Graphic Illustrations:

Simple, stylized drawings (including icons) created to represent an idea, concept, or information.

Other Illustration:

Drawings done in a variety of styles with varying degrees of complexity for a variety of reasons to depict pretty much anything.

Lettering:

A variety of unique, original lettering styles drawn by hand and designed to complement and add impact to the words.

Sketch Animation:

Short animations made from hand-drawn illustrations, generally to inform or educate.

“The soul never thinks without a mental picture.”

— Aristotle

One Squiggly Line

A visual thinking business that uses hand-drawn pictures to make things clear, simple, & fun

Hand-drawn visuals to make things clear, simple, and fun so you can understand more deeply, communicate more clearly, and act more confidently. Visual Notes ~ Illustration ~ Sketch Animation ~ Graphic Recording ~ Other Creative Services.

One Squiggly Line | San Francisco Bay Area & beyond!, California, USA