What is Live Illustration and how does it work?
What is Live Illustration ?
Live Illustrators love coming up with fancy names for what they do but really Live Illustration, Live Scribing, Graphic Notation are all essentially the same thing. They consist of an illustrator digitally on an IPad or physically on a big chunk of paper, summarising what you are saying live. This will normally be with fancy calligraphy and typography or with funny cartoons and doodles. The audience will be able to see the live illustration come together as your talk or meeting progresses, how cool! The end result is a finished illustration like below that can be shared and sent to your attendees as a nice memento of their experience.
Final illustration example done for the University of Cambridge's Decarbonisation Conference.
Above shows the live illustration in progress, drawn digitally and projected onto a display screen live.
How does Live Illustration work ?
Digital Live Illustration
Hiring me for an event normally starts with a meeting or call to discuss your event and what you want to get out off it. It’s handy to talk about your audience and the tone of the topic, so I can decide whether the live illustration is more silly or serious in tone.
Then we can decide whether you want me to illustrate digitally on an iPad and projected onto a screen, like above, or on a physical canvas or big piece of paper. (I’m finding current trends are towards digital, hence more of my digital work is on display).
Once that’s all agreed, I will simply turn up ahead of time at your event, set up my canvas or iPad and start illustrating when your event starts! By the end you will have a lovely illustration digital or physical to send out to your audience. Post event if you want some tweaks to the live Illustration I can easily do that for you, no problemo.
Above shows live illustrations done on canvas drawn for a National Trust event at Sudbury House
Thanks!
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