I’m swooping in today like a giant illustration bird 🦅 with

5 of the best things that got me enough illustration work so that I could quit my nanny job…

I had a great interview with Leonie Dawson last week and I am here to share it with you now.

In case you haven’t met Aunty Leonie (my pretend adoptive Australian Aunt) let me introduce her!

Make your illustrations work harder!
This blog post is to talk you through all the different opportunities there are for repurpose your illustrations after an event.

The rejection game. Let’s plaaaay! I dare ye.

A mini video portfolio… live event illustration for the online world. “Do you draw at Zoom events?” Yes. Yes I do. I basically live on Zoom at this point.

I’m drawing at the international conference on disaster-resilient infrastructure, but I’m not starting for another half an hour, so I logged on early just to make sure everything was working…

Proud as punch to be one of Digital Women’s ‘40 Digital Women to Watch in 2021.’ What a year!

The V&A Museum commissioned me to create some dyslexia-friendly live illustration. Here’s what I learned during my research into dyslexia and adapting my sketch notes to make them more accessible for this online event.

Live illustration and sketchnotes examples for your next online event.

No more boring death-by-Zoom meetings, ok?

Ok.

Good.

I wanted to create this blog post to answer some of my most commonly asked questions, namely:

What is a live illustrator?

What is graphic recording?

What's a live scribe?

What are sketch notes?

People have so many questions and they don't actually know what I do. So this hopefully will clear it all up for you!

This is what it looks like when I’m live illustrating online. Live illustration = being able to watch 90 minutes of an online conference in 90 seconds. This is creative ingenuity mixed with straight-shooting business logic...and it’s seriously cool. Right now I’m mostly scribing online, over Zoom, and other video conference options.

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