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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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....
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Definitely understand the avoidance of perfectionism. Such a black hole.
And I see plenty lot of that Sketchnote anxiety around as well - gets at the heart of the the issue with Sketchnotes becoming a public act/twitter fodder, rather than a personal learning process.
I have taught a full university course on #sketchnotes several times... and with wildly different results. It is so individualized. It is so personal. That’s where my talk stemmed from. The idea that they can be whatever they are meant to be...
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... but when something else takes over, it’s not a sketchnote anymore... it’s something else: like an illustrated note (I love that term now). In the end, I’m just happy that the process moved someone from one thing to another thing. That’s where the studying comes in and the joy
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In my search for making such type of drawings accessible to everyone I met @diane_bleck and who do a great job at decomposing the process to make it as easy then taking notes.
A fellow from #PKMChat took Diane's lesson and won trophy!
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Thanks very much, Bruno, I hope you are well!
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