I'm working on expanding my sketchnote colour vocabulary. I want to go beyond tweaking colour schemes and the occasional coloured sketch (both from Jan 2014). Since comparing different examples is a great way to develop opinions (July 2014), I figured I'd review the Evernote clippings I'd tagged with technique:colour in order to roughly classify them by type of technique.

2014-12-01 Colouring inspiration guide – drawing

Here's the list of links to the sketches themselves:

• Highlighter: Sacha Chua
• Decorations: Luigi Mengato
• Toned text: Kazumi Koyama
• Contrasting text: Timothy J. Reynolds
• Accent text: Eva-Lotta Lamm
• Spacer: Makayla Lewis
• Areas: Per Axbom
• Glow: Katharina Bluhm
• Background: Eva-Lotta Lamm
• Flood: ItsLilpeanut
• Text and outlines: Heather Willems
• Colourful outlines and fills: Liisa Sorsa
• Everything: Lynne Cazaly
• Shade: Makayla Lewis
• Shaded cartoon: Hamish Macdonald

I thought about the different styles, and I picked five to practise with: decorations, accent text, toned text, background, and flood. I took this black-and-white sketchnote draft I made of The Inner Game of Work (W. Timothy Gallwey, 2000; Amazon affiliate link).

and I coloured it in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro with liberal use of layers. Here are the results:

Of the styles I tried, I think I like the toned text one the most. It feels the most put-together while still being different from my usual highlighting style. I should play around with this a bit more to see whether blue/red makes a difference here, though.

2014-12-01 The Inner Game of Work – W. Timothy Gallwey

This is also a handy way to practise nonjudgmental awareness, as suggested by the book. =) If I pay attention to how other people do things and how I do things, I can't help but learn more along the way.

I hope other people find this useful!