Hand Lettering

The legend

First define your keys: every symbol or colour should stand for something different.

Templates and decorative elements

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I started monthly sketchnote meetups at my new job after giving a sketchnote workshop there last month. We had our first meetup yesterday and talked about how to add simple cartoons to sketchnotes. I made a one-page reference to guide the meetup. Of course lots of inspiration from Bruce Blitz and Jack Hamm. #sketchnote #cartoon #drawing #illustration #visualnotes #community

In 2019 I took a course called Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte. Throughout the course I illustrated summaries of the main concepts which you can find below.

Especially
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The beginning of hand-lettering journey, I started by tracing fonts to familiarize myself with typography. I started with the Learn Lettering course with Seanwes and did some other one’s as well.

In Learn Lettering, Sean McCabe suggested to trace fonts, and suggested some basic ones as well. I set out into the woods (you can do it from home) and started with Baskerville, Geogrotesque and Museo Slab.

If you are looking for fonts that have a hand-lettering style, that’s a different conversation but you can find those here.

The pen is mightier than the laptop
Ditch the computer and break out the paper for more effective, interesting, and visually stimulating note-taking

Making your notes more interesting doesn’t have to be a huge undertaking. It’s not like learning to play the piano or taking up diving. If you think sketchnoting looks fun, I have some tips to get you started.

You’ve seen some of the beautiful bullet journals on Pinterest, and there’s more to this trend than an exercise in creativity. Using a bullet journal can make you a master of the website universe. And it all starts with a pen and paper.