*A person sitting at a table with an iPad, live-illustrating an online event.*

Whip out your corporate bingo cards and give yourself a cheeky little dot for every one of these you’ve fallen victim to…

You’re supposed to be listening to the speaker, but OH HELLO, who’s that you see in the corner of the screen? YOUR FINE SELF? Flip that hair. Adjust those spectacles. Put on your best “I am very engaged with this conversation” facial expression. Oh wait, did someone just ask for my opinion? Oops… back in the room, quick!
You’re over an hour into the call, and someone just told someone else that they’re on mute. Again.
You were juuust getting into the zone of concentration, then someone said the words BREAKOUT ROOM, and your soul left your body.
Slides. SO MANY SLIDES.
Your coffee has gone cold and the kitchen is too far away, and you forgot snacks.

[everyone in the world shouts BINGO]

To be clear: none of this means your meetings are boring or that you don’t care. Hybrid work is blimmin’ brilliant in so many ways. But even the best online event can drift into monotony if everything feels passive or samey.

This isn’t a content problem. It’s a delivery problem.

And with the tiniest shift in how you share things, you can change the whole energy of a remote room.

The thing we need to figure out how to lean into a bit more is turning passive watching into active seeing.

Let’s picture it - literally!

Imagine you’re attending a remote conference, and in the corner of the screen, you suddenly see your meeting being illustrated in real time. A real (digital) pen is moving across the screen, picking up on the stuff you need to remember! NICE.

It’s a tiny, subtle, but powerful difference where you don’t have to do anything to get more out of the meeting, whether you’re the event coordinator or simply an attendee! And yet you’re suddenly a bit more interested and tuned in.

The work is all down to people like us: remote live illustrators, graphic recorders, online scribes… whatever you want to call us! We exist to breathe new life into your workspaces by scurrying in when you need us, depositing a bit of magic in the form of branded, visual summaries of your discussions, then scurrying away again!

Why visuals wake up tired brains

They give the brain a sense of novelty and a little reward, like a mini dopamine boost!
They help people feel what’s being said, not just hear it.
They create moments of shared focus. Everyone is reacting to the illustrations in real time, and the illustrations have been reacting to THEM all along!
Complex information becomes easier to follow and easier to remember.
When there’s a Q&A or panel discussion, your audience attendees *and* speakers feel really seen, heard and included when their contributions are immortalised in the drawing.

People relax. They’re more present. They have a lovely time, and they remember what happened.

Planning an online or hybrid event?

If your next event needs a spark of creativity and a way to keep people engaged without adding more slides, live illustration might be the missing piece.

At Illustrated Live, we specialise in remote graphic recording for online and hybrid events of all sizes. Because we work digitally, we can beam into your event wherever you are in the world.

Fancy a chat about how this could work for your event?
We’d love to hear from you.

Get in touch!

x Illustrated Live