Doodle Aloud—and Erase Even Louder
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
The point of a good picture isn’t to eliminate words; it’s to replace as many as possible so that the words we do use are the important ones. So as you work through your picture, make a point of describing—even if it’s only to yourself—what the pieces mean and why you’re drawing them.
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