FREE 22 Original Stick Figures

Fabulous, Randy! Thank you for sharing these!

Randy these are great! Thanks for sharing such a cool asset w/ the community.

These are GREAT! Thanks so much for sharing them!

Awesome, thanks Randy

What a nice thing to do. Thanks for sharing Randy. Earned "hero" points in my book!

This is a really nice idea, Randy. I love the practice of visual note taking and simple representations. The humanistic and unassuming quality of hand drawn figures and scenes is really powerful. It strips away detail to communicate the soul of an idea without all of the cognitive baggage. LOVE IT.

I had the opportunity to spend a few days with Dave Gray and Liz Burow (a couple of masters of visual thinking) earlier this year. It was AWESOME. One of the cool things they conveyed is that it visual thinking / drawing isn't a game of perfection. Expressive messages make the trip and form the visual phrase, as demonstrated by your donations above.

One of the cool tricks Liz talked about was developing a signature style so that many of your representations flow automatically and reflexively. I think this is such an awesome trick. To practice drawing a person so that it's as natural as any other character in your communication repertoire.  I used inklet on my macbook air to sketch these with a cheap stylus on my trackpad.  Through quick experimentation, I found a couple of prospects that I can replicate easily, just like any letter in my handwriting. Love this trick. The idea is to reduce the number of strokes to a simple flowing set. Dave Gray draws the head last. I'm split and not sure which works better for me

This is a really great presentation Liz gave awhile back. Some real gems.

http://burlix.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/burow-united-health-visual-thinking-presentation1.pdf

I recently subscribed to Dan Roam's Napkinacademy (Back of the Napkin Author). This is a great value to me. Lots of really nice tips at a nice pace. 

Sunni Brown offers some great resources here:

http://sunnibrown.com/doodlerevolution/

You folks are totally awesome.  Thanks for the kind words and encouragement

Steve- I'm also a big fan of Dan Roam and Sunni Brown.  Thanks for sharing your sketches and the links. Very helpful.

I've totally got my eye on the Sketchnote book too: http://rohdesign.com/ by Mike Rohde looks good!

Ooh - That's a great looking resource, Holly. Adding that to my list as well

Thank you for this!

The file comes down in a .tgz format. For windows users you might have to use 7-Zip to extract. (http://www.7-zip.org/)

Thanks for providing. Adding these to my toolbox.

Randy, I love these!  Thanks for sharing!

Great guys, thanks a bunch for sharing

Ran across these this morning. 

http://www.sketchofrenzy.com/tutorials.html

Some really nice narrated video tutorials.  I'm gonna have to blog to put together all of the scattered stuff I've run across.

See attached sketch - Last year's video Xmas message for my clients.....

I've just joined this community and I'm overwhelmed by the creativity and energy here. Glad to have found you!

Best,
Steven

Welcome Steven.  This is a uniquely awesome community!

Thanks for sharing Randy.

Thanks Randy!

Awesome Randy....Thank you for sharing

Thank you, thank you, thank you.  These are GREAT!

Thanks everyone for being so kind about the stick figure drawings.  SInce a few people thought they might be useful for something, I have posted a second collection of them, which you can find on this thread:  http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/17448.aspx