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JOSE BERENGUERES
What happens when you sketch better?
Group IQ
Sketching
skills
What is the best sketching tool?
Why felt pen is better than ball pen?
Because felt pen trace is more predictable (lateral friction)
How to sketch people?
Stick man
Tooth man
(good for drawing crowds)
Star man
Star man versatility
neutral
pointing
ballet
How to draw star man
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To draw the star-man always start by the shoulders. Then
the head. Then the limbs. Play with the curvature of the
limbs to express: balance, direction, intention and other
human attitudes.
Why do you need a sketching vocabulary?
Impact
Storify
Flow
Words
Symbols
Punctuation
Commas
Vocabulary
Use space for commas
Frames, containers, space and negative space
are the commas and paragraphs of the
sketching language.
Creating flow
use arrows to make flow
Containers for ideas
use containers for paragraphs
Head elevation vs. age
young
old
older
Exercise: Draw the largest
crowd you can (30 sec).
Sketching moods using the eyes
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happy
crossed
resignation
Drawing age using of eye & mouth
toddler
adult
Use eye-mouth separation to express age
toddler
kid
adult
In general, age increases with eye-mouth dispersion
Toddler vs. granma
toddler
granma*
except for the granma case, where proportions
become again those of a toddler* - Akira Toriyama
Use the lips to express a range of feelings
happy
(not so happy)
sad
Exercise: Building a graphic vocabulary
Try to sketch these
keywords (in less than
10 seconds each)
love, robot, key
collaboration
communication
flower, house, time
summer, cold, hot
hope, athletic
hungry
Teach to steal by forcing people to share...
Getting used to steal
People are weary of stealing. But stealing is
OK. As long as you give credit. A way to make
participants getting comfortable with stealing is
by using guided mastery. (See Banduras guided
mastery, see also #gamification). Exercise: Give
each participant four A4 papers. Fill each A4
respectively with: Lines. Triangles. Circles.
Squares. Be creative. At each A4 make
participants incorporate one interesting
element from their peers previous A4 into
theirs.
Test your storyfication skills
1 Watch Paolo Cardini's talk Forget multitasking, try monotasking
2 Summarise the talk in a A4 paper with sticky notes
Share & steal from your peers...
3 Share (in pairs)
4 Incorporate at least one element from peer
5 Iterate three times
Photo by Alli McKee. [Link]. Aug 2015
Sketch Cold
boring
impersonal
typical
When possible visualize feelings
Sketch music
use support icons
use
cotidian
object
focus on the outcome
of the experience
be human-centered
Use body language to express feelings
use unbalanced
head to show
distress
Sketch defeat
neutral
total
loss
Sketch Victory!
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h
a
e
Y
neutral
Yeah!
Exercise: How-to gain confidence?
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When we arrived in the Valley we didnt know
anyone outside our comfort zone. Me and
Cesar decided that we would try to make an
effort to socialize more with strangers. So
every Saturday noon we would go to a random
Starbucks. We meet self-taught illustrator Juan
Villa at such a Starbucks near Edgewood. He
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taught me this hack: Write numbers from 1 to
9. The left hand writes the mirror image of the
right hand. Both hands write at the same speed.
Most people are surprisingly good at left-hand
mirror sketching. Gain confidence by
discovering hidden abilities.
About the author
Jose Berengueres received a Masters in Electrical Engineering in
Barcelona and a PhD in bio-inspired robots from Tokyo Institute of
Technology. He has taught Design Thinking and Business Models
InnovationinDubai, California, Germany and Mexico. He also consults
on UX and biomimetics. In 2014 he was mentor at StartupWeekend
Dubai. He currently is assistant professor at UAE University where he
developed The Brown Book of Design Thinking.
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