Keep Going Sketchbook

Have you ever seen an artist’s sketchbook? It can be messy, but fun to figure out what makes the artist tick.

Here, let met share you a glimpse in my notes and doodling:

Notes

Taking notes from scripture or sermons:

Some notes from the book of Titus

Making notes to understand user experience:

Drawing to understand the customer’s experience

Capturing elaborate points during a conference:

Colorful notes captured during a conference

These days, not everything happens in the sketchbook, but thoughts and ideas bleed out onto sticky notes and digital tablets. Everything is everywhere. What will bring everything together? How will I make sense of this mess?

Thinking Out Loud

As an experience designer, I’m leaning heavily on my ability to think out loud. That means getting ideas out into the open, no longer closed up in notebooks or hidden away in bins. Ideas need to be socialized and considered, hunches tested, and ideal concepts fleshed out.

As an artist, I want to make the invisible visible – uncovering, discovering, and going after the creative work hidden within my own being. Then, helping others to evolve their ideas into decent storytelling that can move others, change mindsets, and help everyone adapt to the truth.

As a father, I want to see children grow, expanding beyond expectations, avoiding the enemy of their souls. Finding actual joy and identity.

A purpose does not just happen, it is cultivated.
– Bryant McGill

Why subscribe?

Keep Going Sketchbook is about going after the creative inclinations that got me into experience design and helping businesses, but with an attitude of continuing. It will be an open sketchbook as I connect the dots between just about everything.

If you’re interested in seeing how this sketchbook will evolve, come along!

What will be in the newsletter?

Page by page, update by update, day by day… this will answer itself. I don’t exactly know, but have a hunch. It would be awesome if you want to come along.

I’m going to figure out how to keep drawing, continue connecting dots, and enjoying the journey. The purpose will be found in cultivating the walk. The journey forward is worthwhile… together.

What now?

You can find a little more at paulgoode.com or contact me at hello@paulgoode.com.

If you’re halfway interested, why not subscribe?

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Weekly updates and notes on visual thinking, creative work, experience design, pneuma, bible notes, drawing, tactical-to-strategic thinking, and everything in between. Just keep going and going sketchbook!

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Paul Goode is an artist and product designer living in North Texas.