Just started on the #sketchnotes for 's upcoming course 'Web Security Essentials'
About to learn how to protect cookies from phishermen, and ward off flying swarms of cursor arrows. 🎣🍪🍪🍪🎣
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Also tiny tip for starting a #sketchnote - I like laying down a loose set of layout guides to build the structure inside.
These are fairly abstract but I try to create a balanced set of big and small areas.
Helps align things into distinct sections.
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Working more on the web security sketchnotes.
The blue underlay is my lazy rough version - mostly to plan the composition and make sure it’s all going to fit.
Then I do final lines and neater lettering over the top
These are still in progress - now learning about CSRF and XSS 🆘
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I’m guilty of this method (especially when I’m taking digital notes). I love that you are taking the comic-book-like “blue line” approach... and I love your use of the term #illustratednotes! Very nice work. #sketchnotes
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Blue lines make it all more satisfying somehow 😄
Why “guilty” though?
Only curious as I’ve never been hesitant to plan first and do more coherent drawings over the top.
What’s the argument against sketching down a first pass layer?
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1/ I guess I’m a purist when it comes to the “sketch” part of sketchnotes. As 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”...
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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.
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