YOUR VISUAL LIBRARY
When you regularly take visual notes, you may notice some of your drawings repeat themselves because they apply to a lot of different situations. This is called your visual library—it’s a mental bank of all the images you know how to draw and use on a regular basis.
Maintaining a visual library is helpful because you never know when you’ll need to draw something completely out of the blue! When you already know how to draw something, you don’t have to waste time looking up reference images in the moment to make sure you get it right.
BUILD YOUR LIBRARY
“How do I know what to fill my visual library with if I never know what ...
Get Art of Visual Notetaking now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
