- Author:: [[Laura Evans Hill]] - URL:: [https://pencilpirates.podia.com/view/courses/210aa1f5-270f-441c-9a97-3edda39b2c9e/1345285-week-0-onboarding/4141285-the-power-of-atomic-visuals](https://pencilpirates.podia.com/view/courses/210aa1f5-270f-441c-9a97-3edda39b2c9e/1345285-week-0-onboarding/4141285-the-power-of-atomic-visuals) - Category:: [[Course]] # Pencil Pirates How to Take Atomic Visuals ## [[The Pencil Pirate Mindset]] # [[Building Drawing Confidence]] # How to Draw Ideas - Find the Golden Nugget. This is usually the sentence or phrase that sticks the most out above everything else. That's what you should make your atomic visual on. This reminds me of [[Progressive Summarization]]. - Once we have found the Golden Nugget, we need to determine if our visual will be explaining the what, why, or how. - Three Levels: - Icon: a simple icon indicating the idea. You could find this simply by googling the term and icon. - Action: a action indicating the the word. - Abstract: a set of things or people interacting and their emotions which come together to represent a concept. - ### Three Steps: - 1. Interrogate: think about how you could draw an idea. Write out a ton of different words. - 2. Ideate: rough draw 5-6 ideas - 3. Integrate: take the ideas you made and see which ones you can combine to make something -  ### How to Create an Atomic Visual - The four step process -  - If we apply the Hero's Journey to each of these four boxes we can see box 1 represents the context given, box 2 represents the rising action, box 3 represents the climax, and box 4 represents the resolution. In this way our comic is like a story. ### How to create an Atomic Visual - Create a title for your visual - Figure out how many key points you want to include inside of your atomic visual. This number usually revolves around 1-3 but could go as high as six. - Decide how you are going to order your key points. Like a mind map, like a comic, or like a sequence. - Find drawings you can use to represent the key points. - Draw it.