# How to Become a Visual S...
URL:: https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430305562578944
Author:: @EvansNifty on Twitter
## Highlights
> How to become a visual storyteller in 4 actionable steps.
> Let’s dive in 🤿
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430305562578944))
> Step 1 - Visual Language
> You can’t tell visual stories, without a knowing a visual language first.
> Develop your visual alphabet, so that you have a language to refer to when visualising your ideas to make it easier.
> Here’s a 90 second overview to teach you that language 👇
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430313753997318))
> Step 2 - Visual vocabulary
> Now you can visually ‘speak’, you need to be able to make marks with meaning.
> This is your visual ‘vocabulary’ - joining your alphabet together to make recognisable forms.
> Here’s my top 5 visual icons that need to be in everyone’s vocabulary 👇
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430321333096448))
> Step 3 - Representing simple ideas with simple visuals
> Stories can feel overwhelming at first.
> So focus on using the fewest marks to make ideas memorable.
> Borrow from the simplest yet most effective visual language: mathematical diagrams.
> Here’s my top 8 for you to steal 👇
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430327704248320))
> Step 4 - Represent complex ideas through visual metaphors
> Interrogate your ideas to categorise them. Are they about time, relationships or difference?
> Then choose a corresponding visual metaphor to represent that idea bucket.
> Sound hard?
> I got you - use this guide to help 👇
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430336365490176))
> TL:DR How to become a visual storyteller in 4 steps:
> 1. Learn the visual language
> 2. Develop your visual vocabulary
> 3. Represent simple ideas through simple marks
> 4. Represent complex ideas through visual metaphors
> BOOM 💥 You are a visual storyteller!
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430346742239232))
> Liked this & want more?
> 👉 RT the first tweet in this thread 👇
> ❤️ Follow @evansnifty
> 🏴☠️ Sign up for Cohort 3 of Pencil Pirates starting AUGUST 13th - join 300+ writers learning how to visualise their ideas in < 5 mins so audiences get them in < 1 second https://t.co/qdOTvmcLSw ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430350881992705))
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Title: How to Become a Visual S...
Author: @EvansNifty on Twitter
Tags: readwise, tweets
date: 2024-01-30
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# How to Become a Visual S...
URL:: https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430305562578944
Author:: @EvansNifty on Twitter
## AI-Generated Summary
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## Highlights
> How to become a visual storyteller in 4 actionable steps.
> Let’s dive in 🤿
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430305562578944))
> Step 1 - Visual Language
> You can’t tell visual stories, without a knowing a visual language first.
> Develop your visual alphabet, so that you have a language to refer to when visualising your ideas to make it easier.
> Here’s a 90 second overview to teach you that language 👇
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430313753997318))
> Step 2 - Visual vocabulary
> Now you can visually ‘speak’, you need to be able to make marks with meaning.
> This is your visual ‘vocabulary’ - joining your alphabet together to make recognisable forms.
> Here’s my top 5 visual icons that need to be in everyone’s vocabulary 👇
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430321333096448))
> Step 3 - Representing simple ideas with simple visuals
> Stories can feel overwhelming at first.
> So focus on using the fewest marks to make ideas memorable.
> Borrow from the simplest yet most effective visual language: mathematical diagrams.
> Here’s my top 8 for you to steal 👇
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430327704248320))
> Step 4 - Represent complex ideas through visual metaphors
> Interrogate your ideas to categorise them. Are they about time, relationships or difference?
> Then choose a corresponding visual metaphor to represent that idea bucket.
> Sound hard?
> I got you - use this guide to help 👇
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430336365490176))
> TL:DR How to become a visual storyteller in 4 steps:
> 1. Learn the visual language
> 2. Develop your visual vocabulary
> 3. Represent simple ideas through simple marks
> 4. Represent complex ideas through visual metaphors
> BOOM 💥 You are a visual storyteller!
>  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430346742239232))
> Liked this & want more?
> 👉 RT the first tweet in this thread 👇
> ❤️ Follow @evansnifty
> 🏴☠️ Sign up for Cohort 3 of Pencil Pirates starting AUGUST 13th - join 300+ writers learning how to visualise their ideas in < 5 mins so audiences get them in < 1 second https://t.co/qdOTvmcLSw ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EvansNifty/status/1551430350881992705))