Drawing to Communicate
Most people enjoy drawing, but assume it belongs in their spare time. What if drawing could also be one of your most powerful professional tools?
Why drawing works in professional communication
I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember. But after studying psychology, one question kept coming back: How can something so intuitive and clear be almost absent from professional communication?
That question became practical when I started working at Ink Strategy, collaborating with teams inside large organizations, including Fortune 500 companies. What I saw was consistent:
People don’t struggle with ideas. They struggle with explaining them.
Drawing turned out not to be decoration - but structure.
A way to think, align, and communicate before words take over.
Most presentations don’t fail because of bad ideas
They fail because of bad communication. Everyone has experienced death by PowerPoint. Endless slides. Bullet points without hierarchy.
Details before context.
Within minutes, attention drops - not because people don’t care, but because they can’t see the whole anymore.
Most presentations move from small to big: details → explanation → conclusion.Visual communication flips this: big picture → structure → detail. When people can see the idea first, they can finally follow the story.
This page is a resource, not a pitch
You won’t find templates to “draw better” here.
You’ll find ways to think visually and communicate with clarity.
This page collects:
frameworks for visual communication
examples from real professional contexts
articles exploring holistic vs sequential thinking
practical ways to use drawing without artistic pressure
If you enjoy drawing, but work in a world dominated by text and slides - you’re in the right place.
All Visual Communication Articles
YouTube videos
How to Rotate a Box in Perspective
How to Train like Kim Jung Gi
What James Jean is Secretly Teaching Us (find your art style)
Toolkits and checklists
Figures from Imagination Checklist
Drawing figures from imagination can be tricky if you ‘just wing it’. Use this simple step-by-step guide to make your life easy.
Simple Perspective for Absolute Beginners
Every artist experiences style doubts. The solution is to turn your influences into a system, so your style can grow from clarity instead of guesswork.
Courses
Constructive drawing
Master the skill of drawing in 3D. Starting with boxes, volume, perspective and the fundamentals of constructive drawing.
Workout pack
€19,-
Figures in space
Learn to place figures in space with confidence—using perspective, scale, and depth to create scenes that feel solid and alive.
€99,-