Learning Styles vs Dual Coding, Procreate Dreams, & Inktober

Issue #14 of Simply Sketched

Are you a visual learner? Or are you more kinesthetic? Perhaps you’re an auditory learner instead?

Maybe you’re none of those? Or maybe you’re all of them?

In this new article I summarize a research study that pits the theory of learning styles up against the theory of dual coding, which suggests that we all learn better when given the opportunity to process new information with a blend of verbal and visual thinking.

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If you use an iPad for your sketchnoting, you might enjoy checking out the announcement from the Procreate team about their brand new app called Procreate Dreams.

They’ve created a full-fledged animation and video creation tool that looks pretty darn enticing. I’ll definitely be checking it out as a potential new tool for making sketched videos for the Verbal to Visual YouTube channel (which just passed 100k subscribers! big thanks to all of you who are part of that crew :).

Here’s a video from Bardot Brush (who’s got lots of great Procreate tutorials) that will give you a feel for what you can make with the new app, which comes out in November:

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Inktober is almost here!

If you’re not familiar, this is a month-long art challenge that encourages you to draw every day throughout the month of October, with a specific prompt each day.

Here are this year’s prompts:

You can learn more on the Inktober website and in this video from its creator:

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Instead of drawing one word a day for a month, how about drawing one book throughout the entire month?

That’s the idea behind my new Sketchnote Book Club. In these month-long trainings I’ll teach you how to take visual notes while we all read and sketchnote the same book together.

Our October book is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman and you’ve only got a few more days to sign up at the early bird price!

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Best of luck as you continue developing your visual thinking skills and applying them to work that you care about.

Cheers,

-Doug