We will write, and then illustrate, a letter addressed to our future selves.

To do this, we will:

Use a pivotal moment in our present lives to start up a “conversation” with our future selves. We will do a couple self reflection exercises that will help us create a “narrative skeleton” that we will then transform, with the help of some useful tools, into a full narrative. Then we will create one single illustration for our letter, by abstracting key concepts present in our narrative.

We want to keep it fun and light and pressure free. So for this class project, we are not required to illustrate a complex masterpiece. Instead, I would like us to focus on communicating our narrative effectively with our illustration, regardless of how polished or elaborate it might be.

Although this is a gift to our future selves, I also hope that this class project will inspire us to understand ourselves a bit better in the here and now, and to feel excited about where we are going. So in a way, this letter is also a gift to our present selves!

The idea is to open that letter in one year from now. The point of this letter is to celebrate your present self and your life journey and to reflect on the positive aspects of the here and now by inviting self reflection and to see how much you’ve changed in one year (inviting to self reflect then too).

This class is for anyone who wants a fun and accessible illustration/drawing exercise too!.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Click here to watch my full process illustrating my letter (45 min)

Narrative Techniques Article 1

Narrative Technique Article 2

Narrative Technique Article 3 (pretty extensive but marked as not safe; proceed with caution!)

Eszter Duka

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