Annotation: Sketching On Sketches

Making a plan and sticking to it guarantees a sub-optimal solution.

Andrew Fitzgibbon

Imagine that you are a traditional designer working on your drawing board. The concepts that you are developing catch the eye of a passing designer and this evolves into an animated conversation. At some stage, your colleague wants to express an idea that can be effectively communicated only by drawing on your work.

Alternatively, imagine that you want to augment a finished sketch with some notes and/or graphic material that explain things like the colour scheme or some other detail, yet you don’t want to alter the original.

These are just two examples of situations where you may want to draw on or otherwise mark up and ...

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