Graphic Recording Tools and Hints

Drawing Tools

• Graphic recording events

• Favorite: Charters markers from Grove. Only 8 colors but highly effective with low complexity
• Trying out: Neuland markers. Many more colors, both regular and really large sizes, and refillable.

• In notebooks and for journaling

• Tombo brush markers for color
• Flair pens for line work; they don’t run when the Tombo markers are used
• Micron pens; they won’t run either

Surfaces

• Roll paper – Grove is the only source I’ve found recently
• Notebooks

• Moleskine
• Levenger system, but with Staples 28# laser paper. My fountain pens don’t like Levenger’s paper

Training

• Grove,  mostly in San Francisco although they occasionally have offerings in the Washington DC area
• International Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference will usually offer a class as a preconference workshop
• Lynn Carruthers and Emily Shepard are offering Intro2gr  in San Francisco in May.
• This year’s International Association of Facilitators Conference is said to be offering seven sessions in Denver in April.
• Brandy Agerbeck offers online tutorials at Loosetooth.com
• Christina Merkley offers training in Victoria, BC.
• Sophia Lang is offering Fundamentals of Graphic Recording on Long Beach at the end of March.

Reproduction - trying to find that info

Books

• Marks and Meaning, Dave Gray
• Visual Meetings, David Sibbet
• Beyond Words, Milly Sonneman

Graphic templates: Grove.com

Computers

• Tablet PC's, also known as convertible laptops are good for production work as well as live work. A stylus is used which gives you pencil point control. I have been using Lenovo tablets with good success until they went to the wide screen format. The registration, or correlation bewteen the end of the stylus and the cursor is not vey good
• iPads are great for all kinds of things, but a different experience as you're working with your finger tip. You can buy a stylus but it does not have the precision of a PC
• This market is changing fast so if you want to explore it be sure to get really up to date info
• Software
  • Sketchbook Pro is favored by many
  • Paint.net is free software that is really good