Visual Thinking – Create your own Drawing in your Decision Making Process

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I took an art lesson for amateurs when I was about 10 years old. This lesson was amazing because it was taught by a real-artist who was able to paint excellent artwork like drawing portraits, Chinese paintings (involving Chinese brushstrokes), canvas painting (charcoal and air brush paintings) and etc. I was learning the basics – sketching, water color and crayon drawings.

Although I stopped taking art lesson at the age of 12 due to preparation of my major primary-level exam (an external board examination for higher primary-level students before they enter high school) as I almost failed my previous school tests. But I still remembered what I learned from the art class:

• Use your imagination to draw pictures based on given topics/themes.
• Never leave your drawing uncompleted
• Learn to be patient, observant, focus on your artwork
• Last but not least: Do not copy other people’s work! Stick to originality

I’m no Picasso, Michelangelo or Vincent van Gogh but I can draw simple pictures, shapes and lines that are enough for depicting particular objects – i.e. elephant has a big body, big flappy ears, long trunk and a pair of tusks.

During my high school and university years, drawing is frequent on my school notes – either as a boredom-killer or a brainstorming session. Doing mind-mapping is a waste of time because:

• I don’t like coloring as it takes a lot of time to finish it up
• It has its own distinctive rules to follow – I like to draw anywhere, anything on the paper with no ‘branches’

Thanks to my former art teacher, I’m able to draw pictures to assist me to make decision as well as finding the solution(s) of a problem. There are a few drawings that I randomly selected for this discussion:

I usually draw something that comes out from my mind. It is a perfect way to develop your visual thinking – information and details are depicted in form of pictures; to deal with problems related to your study, work or personal tasks.

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I’ve the habit of brainstorming ideas for myself to understand/clarify some issues. In this case, I did a brainstorming diagram on “Ideas” – How do ideas able to help you to make more money? It is meant for self-motivation purpose.

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The next one is about my overview/plan of setting a video site/blog. I don’t need any gadgets for drawing. All I need is notebook/notepad/a piece of paper and a pen/pencil.

If you like my drawings, you can share my drawings with others here.

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