One of the things that Mike Rohde advises in the Sketchnote Book is to try to grow a ‘visual vocabulary‘ – a collection of stuff you can draw fairly quickly[1]. This is mine.
Image credits
All of the images are drawn free-hand by myself, but some of them are my versions of of other people’s designs.
There may well be cases where I’ve forgotten that my image is a version of someone else’s, or I’ve absorbed a way of sketching something unconsciously, or just come up with the same way of sketching something. If so I apologize and will gladly credit and link, or remove the image. Email me at mattypenny at outlook.com. Where I’ve done a version of a corporate logo I’ve linked back too(or will do very soon).
So….
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24 Hours of PASS is a wonderful online SQL Server event run by the PASS organization – PASS > Home | |
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Logo of Air BnB |
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BIML is Business Intelligence Markup Language. This is a rubbish version of theor logo, which can be found at BimlScript | Home |
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My version of some of the dividers in Mike Rohde’s book The Sketchnote Handbook |
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A Peta T-Shirt design, as worn by Sir Paul McCartney. Their website is: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals | Animal Rights in the UK |
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The icons for Microsoft Sharepoint and Excel are my versions of Microsoft’s design |
My version of Microsoft’s Firewall icon. It’s supposed to be a wall, representing the software, and the world, representing the world wide web….but it needs a bit of work. | |
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Github’s cat thing is from the Github website. |
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The elephant is from Apache™ Hadoop®!. I’ve only ever been able to draw this if I’ve got Hadoop’s original in front of me. |
The horror lettering is in the style of numerous horror movies and comics, and of my favourite band – the late, much lamented Cramps | |
My version of some of the icons in Mike Rohde’s book The Sketchnote Handbook | |
Json is from JSON | |
The ‘linked in’ logo is from LinkedIn | |
Tux, the Linux penguin was designed by Larry Ewing, who says that ‘Permission to use and/or modify this image is granted provided you acknowledge me lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP if someone asks.’. His web-page for the bird is Linux 2.0 Penguins | |
The monkey is inspired by the much better one drawn by Cheryl Lowry | |
The Solarwinds logo is from: IT Management Software & Monitoring Tools l SolarWinds |
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The Sqlserver logo is from Microsoft’s design. I haven’t used it very often. It’s difficult to do quickly. | |
The Twiter bird is my version of Twitter’s logo | |
The Police Box is representative of the Tardis from BBC’s Dr Who | |
The Superman ‘S’ is a rendering of DC Comic’s Superman logo | |
The hadoop/Apache Storm logo is from:Apache Storm | |
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The recycling logo was originally designed by a chap called Gary Anderson. See this article. I’ve not found it at all easy to draw. |
Other people’s visual vocabs
Sketchnote building blocks + visual vocabulary | Cheryl Lowry
Sketchnotes: Building my visual vocabulary – sacha chua
Visual Elements by Pondd – Sketchnote Army – A Showcase of Sketchnotes