WORKSHOPS

How lucky we are to have these two legends of our craft sharing their knowledge and skills in the morning workshops!

Workshop 1

CHARACTER STYLISATION

When: Saturday 30th Nov, 9am - 12.00pm

Where: Kensington Town Hall

Host: Jimmy Patch

Level: Intermediate

  • Learn how to leverage the people you draw to enhance your storytelling. Through an understanding of gesture, diversity of character and unique stylisation you can enhance the way you illustrate to grow your capability and audience engagement.

    Topics Covered:

    • Character design

    • Creating dynamic and diverse characters

    • Using modern and on-trend styles

    • Experimenting with shape, gesture and colour

  • Jimmy is an internationally renowned and industry-leading creative, developing unique artwork for a wide range of projects and clients. With more than 14 years of industry experience, Jimmy has travelled the world working with a range of organisations and being featured in publications and exhibitions from the UAE to the USA. Jimmy continually finds new ways to tell engaging visual stories through illustration, animation, graphic recording and installations. He finds passion in seeing the end product come to life in both his solo creative practice and in collaboration with like-minded and talented creatives. His award winning work is driven by bright colours, bold designs and complex detail that is unique and imaginative.

Workshop 2

UPGRADE YOUR ICONS TO VISUAL STORIES

When: Saturday 30th Nov, 9am - 12.00pm

Where: Kensington Town Hall

Host: Ben Crothers

Level: Intermediate to Advanced

  • We all love the power of visual storytelling in our graphic recording, illustrations and sketchnoting, but sometimes it gets hard to move beyond the regular icons and visual metaphors, and extend our visual creativity. If this is you, then join Ben as he shows you some visual thinking formulas you can apply to just about anything you draw, to upgrade your regular icons to 'mini visual stories', for more intrigue and meaning.

    In this workshop, you'll learn:

    • How to pack more storytelling power into just about any simple icon drawing 

    • How to use the FLARE method to generate more imaginative ideas to draw

    • How to apply mini visual storytelling to strategic illustrations

    • How to apply mini visual storytelling in the heat of the moment when you're doing real-time sketchnoting or graphic recording

  • Ben Crothers is a designer, strategist, facilitator, and illustrator. He helps teams clarify their strategy, solve problems and generate winning ideas with workshops, training, and drawing. Lots and lots of drawing. From startups to banks, from high schools to non-profits, Ben has spent over 25 years mapping complex systems, graphic recording at events, and converting bland complex information into attractive insightful visuals. Currently, Ben is Principal Facilitator at Bright Pilots, his own facilitation consultancy. He is also the author of drawing books Presto Sketching and Draw in 4 as well as 50 Remote-Friendly Icebreakers.