Ole Qvist-Sørensen, an amazing graphic facilitator (he’s facilitated at all three of our vizThink conferences) and owner of Danish visual thinking company ‘Bigger Picture‘,  recently put up an excellent post on his company’s blog outlining their tips for drawing just about anything.

Their context is graphical facilitation but these techniques will work for any context and should help you find that inner visual thinker. These videos are well worth the less than 30 minutes it’ll take to go through them.

Introduction

Ole breaks their process down into seven basic steps:

1. People
2. Places
3. Process
4. Speech
5. Colour
6. Effects
7. ‘Everything Else’

The Seven Steps

Check out the videos below (each step is a separate video):

People

Places

Process

Drawing Speech

Using Colour

Drawing Effects

Everything Else

Bringing it all together

Finally, Ole posted a quick video showing how all these elements can be brought together in a single graphic:

Thanks to Ole, and his team at Bigger Picture for taking the time to record these videos and put them out there.

Be sure to check out Bigger Picture’s site for more examples of their fantastic work

Webinar: Creating Global Change through Visual Language

For the past year or so Ole has also been working heavily to get visual thinkers and communicators involved in the push for action on climate change (check out their site for a whole whack of some of their recent work) and last year he recorded a webinar with VizThink  on the subject.

Click here to check out “Creating Global Change Through Visual Language” and get in touch with Ole if you want to get involved/help out.

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