An essay is a written attempt to prove something. Can you have a “drawsay”? Images and drawings are powerful. They have a meaning and a hold on their audiences, sometimes far beyond what should be given. Of late I’ve been experimenting with drawing my ideas rather than writing them. I’ve gained some traction with it, thanks to my friend Dave Gray‘s ideas about the Semigram.
Dave created this video on Forms, Fields and Flows (which I call the Semigram). Try it, and see if you can create a drawsay today.
[…] with a black dry-erase marker in my classroom — but eight years later I’m REALLY good. I use the Semigram, Dave Gray’s lesson in drawing; or Mike Rohde’s five-element drawing alphabet. Even illustration or cartooning has things […]
[…] which we ought to do a better job of transmitting to students; but it does sometimes seems like the Ars Notaria (the art of taking notes, the art of the scribe) is really the Ars Notoria (the notorious arts, […]
You gotta love David Gray–b/c Gray’s Matters Matter! Thanks–Bill