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Story sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Story.

The Chinese Zodiac calendar featuring the 12 zodiac animals, their personality traits, and corresponding years from 2025 to 2036. Includes traditional Chinese New Year symbols like lanterns, red envelopes, and firecrackers.The Chinese Zodiac: Animals, Years, and MeaningsThe Three Bricklayers story, or 3 Bricklayers Parable, is about the meaning, vision, leadership, and motivation of work. Originally about Sir Christopher Wren, the image shows three scenes: a brick layer laying bricks (Task), one building a wall (Goal), and one creating a cathedral on scaffolding (Vision) with a cathedral in the background.The Three Bricklayers StoryLeading from any chair, the fifth practice from The Art of Possibility by Benjamin and Rosamund Zander. From Eugene Lehner's story: What would I say should I suddenly be called upon to lead?Leading from Any ChairWhose job is it? or The Responsibility Poem illustration: four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. Everybody is given a job but in the end Nobody takes responsibility for itWhose job is it?The Blind and the Elephant illustration: a large elephant is joined by three blindfolded individuals; one reaching out to touch the elephant's trunk, one feels along the elephant's side and the other has hold of its tail. Each individual seeks to identify what's in front of them, but with the limited information they have, none of them guess correctly. The blind and the elephantLego faces are awesome: a comparison of the expressions on Lego faces from the Lego Movie 2 with one from the 1980sLEGO facesWhat is the story spine and example: showing a common pattern of storytelling with a small exampleThe story spineHow to speak plainly illustrated by Owl-speak and Pooh-speak from Winnie-the-PoohHow to speak plainly, by Pooh Bear
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