Thinking Maps Illustration Hand Drawn - How to draw creative thinking maps

Disassemble a painting with a mind map and you can recreate it! How does everyone feel when they see this painting? Anyway, my first reaction when I saw it was: awe. I'm impressed that the author was able to incorporate so many elements into one painting and it looks quite coherent. The author briefly describes his creative ideas, such as having been inspired by illustrations from petals.com. It can be said that it is unrealistic to rely entirely on the author to tell you the truth. It would also be fun all around. So, I decided to start by analyzing, using a mind map, the core elements of this picture, as follows: the main body of this picture is a dragon. Around the dragon, the author drew the God of Fortune, auspicious clouds, waves, fish, lanterns, stones, firecrackers, Lord Buddha, chickens, copper coins, and Zen winding around it. After some careful experience, I developed my own drawing strategy: after analyzing it, I understood: only action can turn a new idea into reality! Looking down, with only these tools at hand, it can be said that there are a lot of limitations, can I draw what I imagined? In the face of limitations, I realize: creativity needs limitations, and action is more important than perfection! I made a few strokes on the paper first to simulate and feel the characteristics of the traces with different tools and different angles of stroke. Then, I started to conceptualize the central idea. Draw the whole and the subject in pencil first. Then, I think about the fish in the center and continue to draw it. I anthropomorphize the "fish" and draw it in the shape of Zhu Geliang, and I am good at planning and consulting services. The first thing I need to do is to familiarize myself with the book of war, so I drew books. Painting them in the shape of a ladder, with clouds around them, it looks a bit like becoming a fairy. The Year of the Rooster is here, try adding a cute little chicken on top of the fish's back. Two animals, one big and one small, kinda go together. That's it! Fish flying in the shallow bottom, then draw some water, have some waves, embellish it. Only animals, no people, seems quite monotonous, painting the God of Fortune, wishing everyone a prosperous New Year! I always feel that the New Year's flavor is still almost, not lively enough, then add a string of firecrackers, just the upper left corner of the space is a little empty. The words "Caviar" are very important and need to be designed. In the draft paper to try a few options, also searched the network art fonts, are not satisfied, or their own ideas and drawings. It's easier to write a Q version, and the vertical and vertical part of the character "酱" is drawn as "chopsticks", which makes it feel more like eating noodles with sauce. Drawing is a wonderful thing, even though I haven't eaten yet, I'm about to drool. The final coloring is to enrich the illustration! The color of caviar is usually orange-red, painted with a light green background to create a fresh atmosphere. The sea needs a bit of layers and waves. It's also fun to paint the clouds in a cell phone cloud shape. Finally add the date and signature. It's done! I look like a creative illustrator too. If you still don't see what I drew. I've attached a mind map to illustrate the thought process that led me to conceptualize this piece. Although I don't know the real creative thinking of others, common sense tells me that a rich and complete work should show: while combing the creative thinking, I trained the zen winding and colors again. Truly, life is training everywhere! Creation is the step that everyone aspires to, but is afraid to take. In fact, creating is not mysterious and is very easy. In the book "Benjamin Panic", scholar Wang Xiaoping demystified the mystery of Edison's invention and creation. She writes, "Shakespeare modeled the immortal 'Hamlet' on a Danish legend. But instead of mere imitation, he took this popular legendary tale and rewrote it into a wonderful drama." (Alex Osborne, inventor of Brainstorming) Creativity researchers have also found that there are really two kinds of creation: my copying today is the small creation of everyday life. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and the original author's solid drawing and design fundamentals are something I want to learn from! Finally, here is a little book on creativity, wishing you success in "stealing" from the master! The author of the book, artist Austin Kleon, summarized the 10 key points of creativity: If you have the opportunity, you can read the physical book, because the design of the book is quite creative! Re-reviewing the book, I realized that I've already experienced some of these 10 and started acting on them! What are you waiting for? Get on board with the creatives! I'm the mind mapping waiter, Caviar. If you want to connect with me and get inspired by creativity, please like me more:) Past mind mapping articles related to drawing are as follows: - "You fear drawing mind maps, I provide a gallery of sketches" - "How to draw a face-value mind map? - "What are the best drawing tools to start with when learning to draw mind maps by hand for those with zero knowledge? - "Before you draw a mind map, draw a sketch to warm up" - "The road to hand-drawn mind maps that few people take" How to draw a creative mind map?

Everyone knows that learning mind mapping can exercise logical thinking skills. Those who are handy can use colorful brushes to depict various illustrations to make mind maps more ornamental.

But if the drawing skills of the friends of the more crummy, let's not use the hand-drawn way to draw a mind map. Not only spend time, and then may also draw their own can not understand the soul of the painting, that would be a joke!

I've found another way to create beautiful and creative mind maps, and that's by using the online Flowchart Maker program. This online tool already provides a large number of material templates, just tap the elements in the material library, you can easily add it to the canvas. It is very easy to operate.

Online mind mapping operation is shown below:

1, insert graphics and text content

First of all, you need to open into the online editing page, click on the left sidebar to choose to add graphic material. Then double-click the graphic will be able to customize add text content.

2, add the connection line

Sort out the order of the links, also in the left sidebar, select Insert Connection Line. In the canvas you can customize the position and angle of the dragged connection line.

3, set graphics, connecting lines and text format

Next you need to select the graphic elements or text content, in the right sidebar to customize the format, such as fill color, line type and so on.

4, save and export the image format

When you start to set up, please click "File - Export", you can choose the output file format. For example, click "JPG". Finally, you can export JPG format pictures smoothly.

The above is what I have introduced to you - the way to draw a beautiful and creative mind map online.

How to draw a mind map? Seek answers

Now the software industry is very developed, you can use the mind mapping software to draw, than the traditional hand-drawn some simple.

Take MindMaster, a free mind mapping software, as an example, to show how simple and easy it is to draw a mind map with the software.

First of all: open the software, in the "New" interface in the "classic template", select the appropriate mind map template, double-click to start drawing.

Next: all you have to do is to modify the content on the basis of the mind map template, you can.

"How to modify the text"

1. Mouse over the text and left-click and double-click to enter the editing state.

2. After selecting the text, you can modify the font, color and size of the text in the toolbar on the right side of the software.

"How to modify the theme of the clipart"

1, select the theme of the clipart, selected, the graphic around the blue checkbox will become with the style (you can refer to the following chart), selected, press Delete key to delete.

2, in the right toolbar, the panel will switch to "Clip Art". Then select the graphics you need, drag and drop them into the theme.

"How to Add/Remove Themes"

Add a theme: add a theme at the same level: Enter; add the next level of theme: Ctrl+Enter.

Delete topic: Delete key

How do you draw those beautiful looking mind maps?

Are you envious of those beautiful, yet highly personalized mind maps drawn by others? With the software to draw the mind map, can you realize the effect of hand-drawn? With these questions, take a look at the editorial organization of these software tips, perhaps they can give you the answer.

1, thicken the theme: theme shape settings, the line thickness value will be adjusted to achieve the following effect.

2, modify the connection line style: select the center theme, in the branch style, choose a thicker connection line can be.

3, clever use of floating theme and relationship line: the use of floating theme, you can realize the same mind map, at the same time, there are two central theme of the visual effect. Insert the relationship line, you can make the connection line more flexible.

4, set the hand-drawn effect: page style menu bar, click the hand-drawn style, a key to switch to the hand-drawn effect of the mind map, so that the mind map in the software drawings and hand-drawn between the free switch.

5, the theme line color: in the theme shape settings, click the line color, in more options, using gradient lines, you can make the lines show this effect shown in the figure below.