Seeing the world in shapes will be a constructive element in your quest to master graphic facilitation. Once you begin to see the everyday objects around you informs, shapes, and sizes, you will find a better way to transform your thoughts and ideas into illustrations – which is what visual facilitation is essentially about.
After having learned the power of lines and shapes in the previous two videos, it is time to go a bit deeper into the psychology behind shapes and understand how they are an integral part of graphic facilitation. The easiest way to understand this is to go back to the basics of visualization and discern why images and figures stay longer in our minds than texts.
Suffice to say that our memory is a complex thing and it understands and captures images more than words – a reason why graphic facilitation works better in conveying messages, ideas, and thoughts.
In Lesson #4 – Communicating with Shapes – we will learn why grouping concepts through shapes is important. The key is to not use too many lines and shapes but to practice them to a degree where you can go minimalistic and still convey the point across. Graphic facilitation, thus, is not about abundance, but about precision.
