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6 TIPS TO BOOST YOUR SKETCHING SKILLS RIGHT NOW!

Have you ever forgotten a great idea? That’s ok. It happens to us all. After all, you have so much going on during the day. Emails, meetings, chatting, and social media keep adding to your cognitive load and before you know it, that great idea you had just disappeared. We overestimate the amount of information our short-term memory can hold at any one time and also how long that information stays in our memory.

Sketching is a great way to quickly save the ideas we get by transferring them from our short-term memory and onto paper before they are lost forever.

Here are some tips to help you collect and save you ideas

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Always carry a pen and a sketchbook with you. You never know when you will get an idea.

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When sketching an idea, add annotations such as source, description, date, and other relevant information for easy reference later.

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Collect ideas you find interesting by sketching them or taping them into your sketchbook for reference.

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Improve your skills and gain confidence by consistently sketching ideas in your sketchbook.

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Embrace the roughness of your sketches.

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Use a pen to sketch.

Let’s make sure we keep all the ideas we get no matter how small or big they are. You never know where they will lead to but if you loose them you will never know their possibilities. By incorporating these tips into your design process you will be able to boost your sketching skills and harness the power of sketching to your advantage.

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