If you need 5 mins of creative fun today, just pop along to the Morpho remixer and give it a whirl. “Wikipenguin” - created for the GO-GN 2021 Annual Review, Open University.Ī butterfly is something I look at and wonder - how did it get all those colours? Maybe I'm just looking forward to summer already… The prize? An honorary mention in the next edition, of course! Just the first thing that pops into your head in a quick-fire reply to this email. Meaning is concocted in our brains as a product of our previous experiences, and although we can achieve consensus in what a certain look might mean, there will always be a range of reactions in peoples heads to what they think a character is trying to say.ĬAPTION COMPETITION So, by way of an not-very-scientific-but-interesting-none-the-less experiment, maybe you’d like to tell me what you think the penguin below is saying ? Don’t overthink it. The trouble is that we don’t all interpret facial expressions in the same way. Zoom Pigeon - Created for Audrey Watters, Hack Education Global Plastic Production - CC-BY-ND Bryan Mathers
And with just those two elements you can say quite a lot!
The same goes for changing the shape of the eyeball. It amazes me how by shifting the eyes a single millimetre, the visual expression on the character can change. (You can read more on the We Are Open Blog )ĭOTS AND CIRCLES I draw a lot of characters. In conjunction with the visual layout tool Miro, the Co-op that I’m part of uses this very model as a visual tool to do a strategy sense-check every quarter, which works very nicely indeed. (ALSO, I’m pretty sure that most real starfish wouldn’t be interested in human teams' retrospectives anyway, unless they were discussing human mistreatment of seas and oceans, in which case they would likely become quite animated…) Indeed - even though it makes the starfish more cartoony, the anthropomorphism here allows us to add humour - which is key in disarming the viewer. Now, as you might point out, even though there are over 1900 different species of starfish, there probably isn’t one that has eyes on its back. I was amazed that I couldn’t find a template with an actual drawn starfish in it.
Starfish retrospective software#
The Starfish Model (pictured above) is a tool I was introduced to through a friend’s software development team as a way of conducting a retrospective. STAR-FISHY BUSINESS Recently, an illustration I’d done a few years ago was widely shared on Twitter. To me, they often say: “ is this guy for real?” “ I could have told you this would happen.” or “ Goodness! Whatever next.” The context of the drawing fills in the details, and the scene is set with the eyes. And it’s always tickled me how much the character’s eyes say in Axel's illustrations. I think I’ve learnt most of my drawing tricks from kids books.
In a similar potent mix to a Dr Seuss book, there’s clever humour that works for both kids and adults, along with a distinctive painted visual style and a rhythmical rhyming prose. Of course I only came across these books years ago when my kids were small. He’s the illustrator behind many a kids book: The Guffalo, A Squash and a Squeeze, Tiddler, to name a few of my favourites. I’ve always been a fan of Axel Schaffler. Starfish Model - by Bryan Mathers - CC-BY-ND
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