Drawing for Meetings, Presentations and Trainings

Use Drawing and Graphic Facilitation to Make Your Meetings, Presentations and Trainings Memorable and Effective

Created byAlex Glod

Last updated 6/2018

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What you'll learn

Draw the Basic Elements to Get Started - Shapes, Word Bubbles, Arrows and more
Draw Elements of Nature such as Plants, Land Animals and Sea Life
Draw Faces and Cartoon Characters
Draw People, Emotion and Action
Draw 40+ Different Symbols
Draw Useful Templates for Meetings and Trainings
Explain Complex Concepts through Simple Images
Persuade and Educate more Effectively
Make Your Meetings More Memorable

Course content

6 sections • 29 lectures • 4h 16m total length

How I Learned to Draw and How You Will Too3:42
A short story regarding how I learned to draw as a child, how I ended up not drawing anymore because of what people told me about drawing, how I reconnected to this practice and how you will learn to adopt it as well.
Course Principles and Tools Required5:11
Discover that drawing is a learnable skill, break the belief you can't draw, and practice with basic to advanced tools to communicate in meetings, trainings, and presentations.
The Basics: Part 112:28
Master drawing people with simple shapes, starting from a circle for the head and limbs. Place characters in scenes with a lectern, audiences, signs, platforms, trees, grass, and sun.
The Basics: Part 217:37
Learn to illustrate processes with arrows, cycles, and converging elements to convey flow and outcomes in meetings. Master word bubbles, motion effects, and expressive faces to clarify ideas in presentations.
Creative Project #1: Introduce Yourself4:24
Introduce yourself to the rest of the students by drawing a simple comic book strip of 6 images which convey simple information about you such as name, location, when and where you were born, hobbies etc.

Section Introduction2:35
Enrich your visual vocabulary by drawing nature: plants, fruits, insects, land animals, birds, and sea life. Use adult learning principles to connect abstract concepts with familiar sketches.
Drawing Fruits and Vegetables20:32
Drawing Plants, Trees and Leaves20:30
Drawing Insects, Reptiles and Birds20:10
Learn to draw insects and small animals in a cartoon style for flip charts, from bee and fly to caterpillar and butterfly, using simple shapes, eyes, wings, and legs.
Drawing Sea Life16:30
Draw sea life by replicating patterns to depict sharks, whales, fish, jellyfish, crabs, octopuses, seahorses, starfish, pearls, bubbles, and algae, creating an underwater atmosphere.
Creative Project #23:05
Explore the iceberg model to reveal unseen drivers behind events through facts, patterns of behavior, structures, and mental models, and use advertising principles from nature to communicate abstract concepts.

Section Introduction2:10
Explore drawing people, faces, and emotions in section three, expanding your vocabulary beyond the starfish model. Learn to create relatable characters and convey emotion to enhance meetings, presentations, and trainings.
Drawing People in Action12:56
Drawing Positive Emotions12:45
Use minimalistic character drawings to convey positive emotions and bridge to the audience, exploring energized, brave, inspired, powerful, curious, relaxed, loving, and ambitious through simple poses and symbols.
Drawing Negative Emotions12:52
Drawing Faces and Cartoon Characters13:38
Learn to draw faces and cartoon characters using a simple technique inspired by Graham Shaw, replicating icons like Fred Flintstone and Woody Woodpecker, then personalize them for your style.
Creative Project #32:10

Section #4 Introduction1:45
In section four introduction, this lecture examines the urge to escape from one's thoughts and the role of distractions, dreams, and symbols in reflective practice.
Drawing Symbols Part 114:46
Master drawing symbols from circle shapes to convey meaning for educators and presenters. Practice step-by-step sketches of icons like microphone, light bulb, compass, and globe to expand your visual vocabulary.
Drawing Symbols Part 219:36
Expands your visual vocabulary by teaching 20 new symbols—from brain and money to calendar and map—through step-by-step drawing patterns for meetings, presentations, and trainings.
Creative Project #4 - Find 10 More Symbols and...5:33
Expand your visual vocabulary by adding ten symbols, replicating icons, and sharing four symbol combinations to teach others in a co-created virtual classroom.

Introduction5:48
Challenge #1 - Flipchart for Meeting & Training Agendas5:49
Learn to draw flipchart templates for meeting and training agendas, including a welcome address, structure, roles, steps, and outcomes.
Challenge #2 - Flipchart for a Planning Session4:09
Challenge #3 - Flipchart for Wrap-Up4:39
Wrap up with a simple flipchart template to identify bad apples and good apples from the training, clarify next steps, accountability, and future-focused feedback.

Introduction0:49
Reviewing Your Progress2:03
Where Do We Go From Here? Skills for the Future!5:56
Learn how to embrace change and develop storytelling, group facilitation, art of hosting, change management, and creativity to lead, mentor, and innovate in a future shaped by artificial intelligence.
Thank You & Keep On Learning!2:24
Keep learning to unlock new skills and opportunities, as Udemy provides access to education beyond your local environment and a Q&A section for ongoing feedback.

Requirements

If you believe you are not good at drawing, you are highly encouraged to join. These are not skills you are born with. You simply learn through observation, guidance, feedback and a lot of practice.
Prepare a notebook, black pen and marker, as well as a few colored markers.

Description

Whenever people think of meetings or trainings, they tend to roll their eyes and expect to be bored out of their minds. How about we change that? How about you learn how to make your meetings, trainings or presentations more effective and persuasive with the help of drawing?

With the help of drawings you attract people’s attention instantly, you communicate knowledge and meaning effectively, you spark people’s creativity and you keep them engaged all along the way. We will start with the basic elements of drawing and slowly build up tp drawing:

Elements of Nature such as Plants, Land Animals and Sea Life
Simple Faces, Cartoon Characters, Emotion and Action
Over 40 Different Symbols
As well as Useful Templates for Meetings and Trainings

Whether you believe you can draw or not, by the end of the course you will be able to create cool and creative images almost naturally. All you need to do is prepare your pen and preferable a notebook dedicated for this course. Through each section of the course you will learn how to draw all the elements mentioned before through direct observation and by replicating what you see on paper.

With constant practice and experimentation, drawing will no longer feel like a daunting task, rather it will become second nature.

Feel free to explore what the course has to offer. Check out the free preview videos and remember that you have a 30-day money back guarantee once you decide to take the course. Join me in the virtual classroom and let’s learn to make meetings and trainings great again.

Who this course is for:

Trainers and Teachers that want to make learning more engaging and creative
Presenters, Leaders and Marketers that want to make their presentations more effective
Video Content Creators that want to make whiteboard videos

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Course content

Starting with the Basics of Doodling and Drawing5 lectures • 43min

Enlarging our Visual Vocabulary - Drawing Nature6 lectures • 1hr 23min

Enlarging our Visual Vocabulary - Drawing People, Faces and Emotion6 lectures • 57min

Enlarging our Visual Vocabulary - Drawing Symbols4 lectures • 42min

Flipchart Templates for Meetings and Trainings4 lectures • 20min

Perfecting the Craft4 lectures • 11min

Requirements

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