Virtual Graphic recording is exactly the same as normal scribing, except the graphic recording artist is working remotely. And rather than say ‘remote graphic recording’ we went with ‘virtual’ because they’ll be plugged into a computer.

We are still listening to what people say and visualising it. But perhaps now more than ever a scribe live illustrating a meeting is a vital component. Meeting organisers are in a battle for participant engagement like never before. 

A set of visuals from the meeting provide an incredibly hook for people to latch onto within a virtual and online meeting space. The goal of simplify complex ideas with hand drawn visuals remains true. And in anyways the delivery mechanism allows for an even more direct delivery this info to peoples screens.

There are many different forms of virtual or remote meeting out there. And these all require a highly adaptable approach. Is the event a call with 10 people in it? Is it a webinar with a 100+ and live twitter polls? Is it a live stream going out to hundreds of thousands of subscribers?  A virtual graphic recording artist needs to be adaptable to these scenarios. The core of the artist does remains the same. But the meetings themselves are changing rapidly…

Our Live Illustration Virtual Meeting Manifesto below is a starting point for virtual meeting design. And if those protocols are followed, event in part, it makes the virtual scribe’s job easier. But in terms of specific tech to use at this moment in time we recommend using iPad’s with Procreate. An iPad Pro is currently one of the easiest devices to draw on (Apple are NOT paying us to say this). And Procreate is a fantastic drawing tool which can project into web based virtual call packages. We use Zoom and Teams primarily.