January, 2016
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS “QUICK SKETCH”?

Recently I have answered many questions about “what is a quick sketch”. In other words…what do you “do” exactly? In short; quick sketch illustration is a quick way to translate words, copy, ideas into clear, focused, visual picture telling.

A few ways we communicate to another are with words, body language, and visuals. We are all “storytellers”. “Quick sketch” is a universal way of telling story through visual illustrations of communications. There is a story in all of our talks, business, brand, life path, teachings…it is about the “why”, “how”, and “what” we communicate.

Drawing Ideas!
Q: How do you communicate a big idea? A: Quick sketch and share. A quick sketch is more formal than a doodle, and done in a short period of time to illustrate “story” for all sorts of meetings, event, travels, teachings, ideas. It is an illustration that reflects the key focus or summary of what is being communicated. Look at it like a visual “adjective” that shows the flavor and personality of a main thought!
Some of the earliest quick sketches can be found in the pictographs of indigenous people’s recordings, art, homes or caves. Various historians have concluded that “picture art” was a recording of important information, directions, warnings. In general: everyday life activities, as well as declaring what is what and what is whose! Look at the Egyptian Hieroglyphics. What gods were helping with the harvest, sun, underworld…and who is to be honored and how they want to be served…it’s all there in wonderful color for all to see and understand, no matter what part of the kingdom one hailed. Picture storytelling.

Visuals are understood by all.
Pictures tell a quick story, record important ideas and passages of time. There have been “quick sketch artists” from the dawn of time…they have been called Illuminaries, scribes, journalers, reporters, map makers, reporters, engravers, artists, visionaries, and sometimes even prophets. Now “quick sketch” artists are called illustrators, storyboard artists, graphic facilitators, art journalers and visual scribes.

Quick sketch is seen in animation for instructions on “how” to videos, meeting agendas, thinking process, company history lines, brainstorming ignitions and much more!
Quick sketch is not a new idea, it is a form of visual communication now being used in a society that over 82% of the populace now get their information from visual reports. Visual story is quicker for the brain to process, and is likely to be understood by multi lingual groups and community.

Want to get going with expressing your communications, agenda, values, needs…and show others you understand their needs and can help them with solutions and information by using quick sketch? Give me a call…and I am called a visual scribe…let’s get your story translated into the universal language of quick picture telling!

Thanks for your time and sharing!

I’m Paula Brown; Visual Scribe / Feng Shui practitioner / Author / Animal Communicator. I am a visual storyteller showing you how to IGNITE YOUR STORY, YOUR ENERGY, YOUR WELL-BEING for both business and home. My site is: www.chilightful.com Connect on: LinkedIn, Twitter. and you can “like” my facebook page at: www.facebook.com/ChiLightful