Sketchnote Podcast

In this episode, Natalia Talkowska, visual communicator and founder of Natalka Design. She shares how she left a small town in Poland, landed in London, started a solo visual practice, and has grown that business into a team of fifty people.

This inspiring discussion with Natalia is one you won’t want to miss!

Save 50% when you buy any two of the The Sketchnote Handbook, The Sketchnote Workbook, or The Sketchnote Handbook Video together with discount code HAPPY10.

For details on the offer, visit:

rohdesign.com/happy10

Offer ends December 31, 2022.

This episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by:

Concepts: an infinite, flexible creative tool for all your good ideas. Available on iOS, Windows and Android.

The new Concepts 6 for iOS has exciting new features, including a modernized canvas interface, a freshly structured, easier to use gallery that integrates with the iOS Files app, and RGB and HSL color options added to its already extensive Copic color palettes.

Concepts' infinite canvas lets you spread out and sketch in any direction. Draw and take notes with liquid pens, markers and brushes in your favorite colors.

Everything you draw in Concepts is a flexible vector, so you can move your notes around the canvas, or change their color, tool or size — with simple gestures.

Drag+drop images onto the canvas, and use layers and grids to organize your creative space.

When you’re ready to share, export straight to your friends or team.

SEARCH ”Concepts” in your favorite app store for infinite, flexible sketching.

Learn more: Concepts App

• Intro
• Welcome
• Who is Natalia?
• Origin Story
• Natalia’s current work
• Sponsor: Concepts app
• Tools
• Tips
• Where to find Natalia
• Outro

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Natalia on LinkedIn
• Natalia on Twitter
• Natalka Design
• Natalka Design on Instagram
• Doodledoo
• Doodle Maps
• George Berlin
• Vestaboard

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Traveler’s Notebook
• Staedtler Pigment Liners
• Sakura Pigma MB
• Pentel Arts Color Pen, Fine Point Colors
• Adobe CS Suite
• Procreate
• Adobe Fresco
• Wacom Tablet
• Microsoft Surface Studio
• ReMarkable

1. Talk to other people, especially outside of your area
2. Do something else to break out of your old ways: course, approach, etc.
3. Believe who you and and this is what you do

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

In this episode, I talk with Jude Pullen, an independent creative technologist who works with partners to make cutting edge tech simple and adapt old tech in interesting ways.

We talk about Jude’s sketching and visualization that helps him explore spaces he works in, filter details, and to communicate with clients and colleagues to create cohesive solutions as a team.

Save 50% when you buy any two of the The Sketchnote Handbook, The Sketchnote Workbook, or The Sketchnote Handbook Video together with discount code HAPPY10.

For details on the offer, visit:

rohdesign.com/happy10

Offer ends December 31, 2022.

This episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts.

An infinite canvas sketching app built for tablets with a stylus, like the iPad Pro, Microsoft Surface, and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Concepts’ infinite canvas lets you spread out and sketch in any direction. Everything you draw in Concepts is a flexible vector, so you can move your notes around the canvas, or change their color, tool or size with a simple gesture.

SEARCH ”Concepts” in your favorite app store for infinite, flexible sketching.

Learn more: Concepts App

• Intro
• Welcome
• Who is Jude?
• Origin Story
• Jude’s current work
• How sketching is part of Jude’s work
• The value of storyboards in Jude’s work
• Sponsor: Concepts app
• Tools
• Tips
• Where to find Jude
• Outro

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Jude’s Site
• Jude on instagram
• Jude on Twitter
• Jude on LinkedIn
• Jude’s Design Modeling Website
• Goats Vs Llamas - a Crazy Monumental 3D Board Game With 3D Printing
• Sugru
• LEGO
• Jude’s BBC TV Show: Big Life Fix
• Jude’s TedX Talk “Why Creativity Loves Uncertainty”
• Canary Air Quality Sensor - Part 1
• Canary Air Quality Sensor - Part 2
• Radio Globe
• Book: Designs and Sketches for elBulli by Luke Huber
• Book: Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
• Book: Abstract City by Christoph Niemann
• Thomas Heatherwick

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Whiteboarding skills
• Cardboard modeling skills
• Build with found objects

1. Make your brain engage in the environment and challenge yourself to sketch on objects
2. Draw for someone not in your world: your mom
3. Learn to sketch upside-down to stay in flow as you sketch for someone else

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

In this episode, I talk with Tanvi Agarwal about her winding career journey: from engineering to graphic design and then into visual thinking and illustration. Now she draws for a living, helping firms with visualizations. She shares her insights on following her interests to success and how her engineering and graphic design knowledge gives her an edge in her visual thinking.

Save 50% when you buy any two of the The Sketchnote Handbook, The Sketchnote Workbook, or The Sketchnote Handbook Video together with discount code HAPPY10.

For details on the offer, visit:

rohdesign.com/happy10

Offer ends December 31, 2022.

This episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts.

An infinite canvas sketching app built for tablets with a stylus, like the iPad Pro, Microsoft Surface, and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Concepts’ infinite canvas lets you spread out and sketch in any direction. Everything you draw in Concepts is a flexible vector, so you can move your notes around the canvas, or change their color, tool or size with a simple gesture.

SEARCH ”Concepts” in your favorite app store for infinite, flexible sketching.

Learn more: Concepts App

• Intro
• Welcome
• Who is Tanvi?
• Origin Story
• Tanvi’s current work
• Her mindset change that helped her grow her business
• Sponsor: Concepts app
• Tools
• Tips
• Where to find Tanvi
• Outro

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Tavi’s Silly Strokes
• Tanvi’s Draw Your Thoughts Cohort
• Tanvi on Instagram
• Tanvi on LinkedIn
• Tanvi on YouTube
• Tanvi on Facebook
• Tanvi on Twitter

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Uni-ball Eye Micro Ub-150 Gel Ink Pen
• Notebook with heavy 150 to 200gsm paper in off-white
• Procreate
• Concepts

1. Focus on the thinking and execution of your visualizations
2. Consume a lot of good content, observe and learn because your mind-shift from good content impacts your style
3. Invest in yourself!

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

In this first episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast season 12, I talk with Hermen Lutje Berenbroek, a design strategist and visual thinker from the Netherlands.

Hermen shares how he helps people understand complex information and how being an outsider often gives him the power to listen intently, draw what people are really thinking, and ask questions insiders might be afraid to ask.

He also goes into detail about the process of creating his new visual thinking course with Domestika designed to reach people around the world right where they’re at.

Save 50% when you buy any two of the The Sketchnote Handbook, The Sketchnote Workbook, or The Sketchnote Handbook Video together with discount code HAPPY10.

For details on the offer, visit:

rohdesign.com/happy10

Offer ends December 31, 2022.

This episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts.

An infinite canvas sketching app built for tablets with a stylus, like the iPad Pro, Microsoft Surface, and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Concepts’ infinite canvas lets you spread out and sketch in any direction. Everything you draw in Concepts is a flexible vector, so you can move your notes around the canvas, or change their color, tool or size with a simple gesture.

SEARCH ”Concepts” in your favorite app store for infinite, flexible sketching.

Learn more: Concepts App

• Intro
• Welcome
• Who is Hermen?
• Origin Story
• Hermen’s Domestika Course
• Sponsor: Concepts app
• Tools
• Tips
• Where to find Hermen
• Outro

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Artifizer
• Hermen’s Online Course: Visual Thinking with a special listener 15% off code, valid until Oct. 25: HERMEN-INKTOBER
• Hermen on Instagram
• Hermen on LinkedIn
• Hermen on Twitter

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• 3M Post-It Notes
• Neuland Markers
• Traveler’s Notebook
• Procreate
• Notability
• Mural
• Miro
• FlipaClip

1. Trust the power of the human brain.
2. Embrace your mistakes!
3. Draw your conversations for better understanding

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

Hey, It’s Mike Rohde, and I’m here to announce season 12 of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is launching on Tuesday, October 4th, 2022.

This season we’re featuring 9 amazing visual thinkers:

• Hermen Lutje Berenbroek
• Tanvi Agarwal
• Jude Pullen
• Natalia Talkowska
• David Neal
• Kate Rutter
• Tim May
• Raven Henderson
• Sathya

You are going to love every interview!

Special thanks to our sponsors: Concepts, the infinite canvas sketching app and The Sketchnote Handbook’s 10th Birthday at Peachpit.com.

Watch this space on Tuesday, October 4th for episode 1!

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

In this final episode of The Sketchnote Army Podcast season 11, we’ve gathered all the tips from 13 fantastic visual thinkers to inspire you!

This episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts.

An infinite canvas sketching app built for tablets with a stylus, like the iPad Pro, Microsoft Surface, and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Concepts’ infinite canvas lets you spread out and sketch in any direction. Everything you draw in Concepts is a flexible vector, so you can move your notes around the canvas, or change their color, tool or size with a simple gesture.

SEARCH ”Concepts” in your favorite app store for infinite, flexible sketching.

Learn more: Concepts App

• Intro
• Welcome
• Sponsor: Concepts app
• Tips
• Outro

• Paul Mignard’s Website
• Renée Stevens’ Website
• Andy McNally’s Website
• Zsofi Lang’s Website
• Andreas Gaertner’s Website
• Franziska Schwarz’s Website
• Adrien Liard’s Website
• Kris Necklemann’s Website
• Lai Chee Chiu on Instagram
• Tanmay Vora’s Website
• William Warren’s Website
• Chris Wilson’s Website
• Scott H Young’s Website

1. Get in the habit of making and posting content regularly
2. Be curious with new things
3. Get inspired by learning by people online across disciplines

1. Try out XR and observe XR in everyday life
2. Choose rhythm and routine instead of inspiration
3. Break out of rectangles - think outside in open space

1. Break things down into their basic shapes
2. Focus on capturing the idea, add color and details later
3. Don’t be afraid to leave space blank and return to it later
4. Keep learning new things

1. Look at other work that’s awesome and analyze and understand why
2. Visually journal 3 things that happened today
3. Don’t be discouraged when its hard, keep going
4. Use 50% opacity layer or a sticky note to capture in-progress ideas

1. Use gray and black for 2 levels of information
2. Shut up — DO IT! Practice again and again!
3. Make your drawing process visible to the customer — don’t hide it!

1. Copy other artists’ work
2. Draw a new idea by mixing two disconnected elements
3. Hand letter poetry or quotes that you like

1. Practice consistently a little bit each day, regularity for the win
2. Inspect your work looking for growth areas you can work on
3. Practice the things that you’re weak on, it should hurt
4. Draw from life because drawing is in the mind

1. Draw sample lines with your pens before you’re under pressure
2. Find people’s work you like and analyze it to learn and grow
3. Have patience!
4. Show your work and reveal your journey

1. Explore the 33% people rule
2. Treat your drawing as a reward instead of a task
3. Post as much work as you can

1. Integrate visuals into everyday tasks and routines
2. Share your work generously with others to keep yourself active
3. Constraints will help you keep on track

1. Creativity flourishes with boundaries
2. Visualize the problem as a movie
3. Pursue adjacent creative activities - painting or music

1. Create something that’s just for you and not public consumption
2. Shake up your tools and play around with them
3. Ask what a tool wants to used for and not used for, then play with both

1. Develop your own visual language
2. Don’t worry about your stuff looking good!
3. Look for a visual picture to represent an idea to help your learning

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

In this episode, Scott H. Young, author of Ultralearning, talks with us about how he uses visualization techniques for his learning, memory and critical thinking.

Special thanks to Xina Gooding Broderick (Guest on Season 8) for connecting Mike with Scott!

This episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts.

An infinite canvas sketching app built for tablets with a stylus, like the iPad Pro, Microsoft Surface, and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Concepts’ infinite canvas lets you spread out and sketch in any direction. Everything you draw in Concepts is a flexible vector, so you can move your notes around the canvas, or change their color, tool or size with a simple gesture.

SEARCH ”Concepts” in your favorite app store for infinite, flexible sketching.

Learn more: Concepts App

• Intro
• Welcome
• Who is Scott?
• Scott’s Origin Story
• The value of human-drawn, analog images
• The overlap of learning, memory, and visualization
• The challenges of expressing ideas with images
• Scott’s 30-day portrait drawing challenge
• What Scott does to cope with pandemic:
  • Interesting, fun projects that are under your control
• Sponsor: Concepts app
• Tools
• Tips
• Where to find Scott
• Outro

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Scott’s Website
• Scott’s Articles
• Scott’s Book: Ultralearning
• Ultralearning Podcast
• Scott on Twitter
• Scott on Instagram
• Scott on LinkedIn
• Method of Loci
• The Feynman Technique
• Voltage Visualized with Water
• 3Blue1Brown
• Book: Productive Thinking by Max Wertheimer
• Robert Bjork: Two Components of Memory
• Scott’s 30-Day Portrait Drawing Challenge
• David Jameson: Portrait Drawing – The Complete Online Course
• Book: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
• Life of Focus Course

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Pilot Drawing Pens
• Caran D'ache Luminance Colored Pencil Set
• iPad Pro
• Apple Pencil
• Procreate

1. Develop your own visual language
2. Don’t worry about your stuff looking good!
3. Look for a visual picture to represent an idea to help your learning

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

In this episode, sketchnoter and teacher Chris Wilsontalks about language learning with sketchnotes and his use of obsidian to connect his sketchnotes together in an interconnected way.

This episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts.

An infinite canvas sketching app built for tablets with a stylus, like the iPad Pro, Microsoft Surface, and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Concepts’ infinite canvas lets you spread out and sketch in any direction. Everything you draw in Concepts is a flexible vector, so you can move your notes around the canvas, or change their color, tool or size with a simple gesture.

SEARCH ”Concepts” in your favorite app store for infinite, flexible sketching.

Learn more: Concepts App

• Intro
• Welcome
• Who is Chris?
• Sketchnotes and language learning
• Having a conversation with your notes
• Organizing sketchnotes with Obsidian
• What Chris does to cope with pandemic:
  • Hand-lettering practice
  • Hiking in the forest and greenery
  • Playing the ukulele
• Sponsor: Concepts app
• Tools
• Tips
• Where to find Chris
• Outro

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Chris on Instagram
• Chris on YouTube
• Chris on Twitter
• Learn, Create, Share
• Learn, Create, Share Links
• Obsidian

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Leuchtturm1917 Notebooks
• The Sketchnote Ideabook
• Sakura Pigma Micron Fineliner
• Faber-Castell Fineliner
• Pentel Brush Pen
• Bic Gelocity Gel Pen
• Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen
• Stabilo Pens
• iPad Pro
• Apple Pencil
• Procreate
• Paper by WeTransfer
• Concepts

1. Create something that’s just for you and not public consumption
2. Shake up your tools and play around with them
3. Ask what a tool wants to used for and not used for, then play with both

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

In this episode, William Warren, founder and CEO of The Sketch Effect, shares how he went from an aspiring cartoonist to a marketing executive to founding a graphic recording and sketchnoting business. Hear how he founded his company then organically grew from a team of 1 to a team of 19. Learn how William and his team adapted to the 2020 pandemic and an 80% revenue drop by innovating with a digital, virtual solution.

This episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts.

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• Intro
• Welcome
• Who is William?
• William’s origin story
• In-person live vs. digital - pros and cons
• What William does to cope with pandemic:
  • Craft beers
  • Getting outdoors
  • Listening to good music
  • Traveling the world and right at home
• Sponsor: Concepts app
• Tools
• Tips
• Where to find William
• Outro

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• The Sketch Effect Website
• The Sketch Effect on Instagram
• William on Instagram
• The Conquering Creative
• William’s Conquering Creative Blog
• WIlliam on LinkedIn

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Pentel Energel
• Tombow Markers
• Sakura Identipen
• Moleskine Sketchbook
• iPad Pro
• Apple Pencil
• Procreate
• Wacom Cintiq

1. Creativity flourishes with boundaries
2. Visualize the problem as a movie
3. Pursue adjacent creative activities - painting or music

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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