Friday 30 January 2015

If Only I Could Draw ..! Here's How-To.



I'm a huge fan of helping people communicate effectively through video and gave a short, free, seminar to a small group of people in November of 2014, for which I produced a very simple animated video as a seminar tool based around Seam Humby, the host.
As someone who thinks in pictures, I can see that one of the major constraints for anyone wishing to add a bit of supporting illustrative content to a blog or public presentation is the ability to create some original visual interest or artwork.
There is a growing raft of animation tools now available online and all of which generally come with a library of "stock" images that are free to use with each of these apps. This may be a great way to help get you started but after a while you may begin to notice that your animation looks quite like a number of other animations and that any impact you might have hoped to gain as a result of your endeavors has been sadly diminished.
The answer of course would be to create your own artwork, in your own style which says more about you than any stock image or piece of clip art ever can but not everyone can draw.
Well, perhaps you don't have to and if you have a laptop, some thin paper and a couple of black felt tip pens, you might like to create your own artwork by simply tracing it. This method is by no means a perfect solution to your drawing limitations but it might help in the short term. 
The methods described are the same ones that were used to create the animation for the seminar and which I have also embedded underneath the How-To for your further edification.


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