In a recent post, I talked about my love of sketchnotes and visual note taking. I am like, OB-sessed with practicing my handwriting every chance I get. I found handwritten grocery lists to be a great way of exercising these skills, and have collected some that I’ve done in the past few months for you below.
For each list, I tried to practice a different visual element each time: using images in place of words; writing text in all-caps or all lower-case; cursive/scroll print; block letters; bullets; and frames/containers (frames and containers are shapes that surround a word/words in your notes). You can learn more about sketchnote practice in Sunni Brown’s super-helpful-webinar-series-on-visual note taking or in this post by Craighton Berman.
Grocery list sketchnote; text and icons practice.
Grocery sketchnote; practicing all-caps, alignment, and bullet points.
Grocery list sketchnote practice of various “typefaces”.
Grocery list sketchnote study of various “typefaces”; this one’s a little lazy :-)
Grocery sketchnote; practicing handwritten fonts and some icon doodles.
Grocery list sketchnote study of various “typefaces”.
Grocery list sketchnote; text and icons practice.
Grocery list sketchnote; practicing text styles and containers (i.e., enclosing words in shapes to emphasis them).
Grocery list sketchnote practice of various “typefaces”.
Grocery list sketchnote using (mostly) images/icons to capture the needed grocery items.
Grocery list sketchnote study of various “typefaces”, plus an icon drawn by my hubby.
Grocery list sketchnote; practicing containers (i.e., enclosing words in shapes to emphasis them).
Now that I’ve discovered the AnyList app, I’m no longer handwriting my grocery lists (if you’re a list-maker, you seriously need to check out that app!) but I definitely plan on continuing to practice sketchnotes :-)!
How do you practice your sketchnote skills? Let me know in the comments below!
Me, reading this post…
Scroll, scroll, scroll, scro……….
CHOLULA!!!
LOL
Thanks for this post – I’m Googling for ideas on the possible benefits and/or ideas for sketchnoting my to-do lists. And I love Cholula!
(and in a few weeks I’ll be back at Lake Chapala, where Cholula is made!)
Oddly enough, I was just thinking “What should I sketchnote next?” :-) Thanks for reading my post & have fun at Lake Chapala!
P.S. – Cholula’s the best!