Draw a journey you know well!

ASSIGNMENT

Your assignment is to visually communicate a journey.

Tip 1: Draw a journey you take often. This might be your daily commute to work, trip to the gym, or walk to your favorite coffee shop. Choosing something you visit a few times a week will ensure all the "data" is quickly available in your own head.

Tip 2: Don't get too caught up in the mind map. Map for just 5 minutes, then get drawing! You can always add to your map later. If you're feeling stuck, consider modes of transportation, factors that change your approach/route, and notable landmarks.

Tip 3: Challenge yourself to create 3-5 drawings. Just like in the class lessons, it took me a few tries before I found my favorite "drawn story." And experiment! You can use my bar charts as inspiration, but feel free to try Venn diagrams, pie charts, line graphs, or something totally new.

Most importantly, have fun, share your progress early and often, and exchange feedback with each other. This is an awesome opportunity for us to discover new ways to unlock the power of drawing.

DELIVERABLE

Share your progress and drawings in your project workspace. A complete project will include:

Mind map
3-5 visualizations

RESOURCES

Books

Visualize This by Nathan Yau
The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam
Blah Blah Blah by Dan Roam
The Doodle Revolution by Sunni Brown
Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
How to be Interesting by Jessica Hagy

Websites

"Visual Storytelling in the Age of Data" — a webinar with Robert Kosara
"Data Visualization: Catering to Your Audience" — a blog post by Robert Merrill
D3 Gallery — they're inventing new types of data viz all the time!
Mind Mapping Tools — a list by Sean McCarthy for Stratabeat
The Noun Project — great for representational drawing ideas (also check out their Skillshare classes!)
Flowing Data from Nathan Yau
Indexed from Jessica Hagy
Napkin Academy from Dan Roam

More Skillshare Classes with FiftyThree

Resource Class: How to Use Think Kit with Max Liberman
Digital Drawing Workout: The Art of Subtraction with Shantell Martin

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Image courtesy of Catherine Madden

Melissa Dähre

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