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November 30, 2009

NaNoDrawMo '09 Sketchnotes: Completed!

I've successfully completed the challenge of NaNoDrawMo (National November Drawing Month) as dreamed up by Steven Frank.

According to Steven:

Loosely defined goals are: 50 individual works/drawings produced between Nov 1 and Nov 30. Extra points if they work together to tell a story or otherwise share an overall theme (people you know, people you saw on the bus, etc).

Participants were to draw 50 images in November, post the images to Flickr, join and submit them to the NaNoDrawMo Flickr group. You can also keep track with a NaNoDrawMo Twitter search.

I was a bit crazy for doing a project where I had to create 1.67 sketchnotes in my Moleskine sketchbook each day, but hey, life is short and I was able to just pull it off.

Here are all 51 sketchnotes:

The 51st sketchnote is by my 7 year old son Nathan, who joined the fun. :-)

See my NaNoDrawMo Sketchnotes Set on Flickr.

Hope you've enjoyed them as much as I have.

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Comments

I really love all the hand-drawn, block-lettered text. That is cool!

Posted by: Bri Lance at November 12, 2009 4:30 PM

Thanks for the kind words Bri! I have another 40 to go by the end of November, so you'll get more. :-)

Posted by: Mike Rohde at November 13, 2009 12:14 AM

These would work well as designs on t-shirts - brilliant!

Posted by: Marsha Keeffer at November 18, 2009 11:44 PM

Thanks Marsha! I was actually kicking around shirts and maybe limited-edition, signed silkscreen posters. What do you think of that idea?

Posted by: Mike Rohde at December 1, 2009 12:59 AM

I love the whole style of sketchnote but take my hat off to you for pulling 50 amazing pieces from i don't know where. My favorite is buffalo bill. I failed at the nanawrimo this year, i like the concept of nanodrawmo a bit more.

Fantastic stuff Mike!

Posted by: Paul at December 1, 2009 3:18 PM

Paul, thanks! Not sure where they came from myself but they were a blast to do!

Posted by: Mike Rohde at December 3, 2009 12:36 AM