Text, Connections, and Colour

Although we obviously advocate communicating visually with sketches, it is rare that a complex concept or page of multiple sketches can be fully described with the drawn line alone. If you are going to use your sketches as a form of communication or use them in your writing and research or studies, then it helps to title, annotate, and direct the viewer to each relevant section in turn. To do this, we necessarily use text, connectors, and colour to curate the gaze. This chapter should enable you to use text confidently in different weights and styles, connect and separate sketches on a page in a variety of creative ways, and develop a colour palette for your sketches that works for you and your projects. This chapter includes details on textual information, shapes, connectors, and separators—how do we link concepts whilst sketching, and how can we use these to emphasise points and provide clarity in our sketches?