We bring your event to life
Big ideas deserve brilliant pictures.
We turn conversations, complex ideas and important messages into colourful, engaging visuals that people actually want to look at.
From live illustration at conferences and events to beautifully crafted digital sketchnotes, illustrated reports, murals and bespoke artwork, we make information easier to understand, harder to forget and a whole lot more interesting.
We're Mandy and Becky. We're illustrators, visual thinkers and professional big-idea untanglers. And we believe there's almost nothing that can't be made better with a little colour and creativity.
Large-Scale Illustration and Murals
Watch us bring fun, sparkle and colour to your space by creating large scale illustrations live in front of your attendees, with the option of co-designing with you or your attendees.
Live Sketchnotes
We capture the magic of your conferences, workshops and events through live visual storytelling.
Ideas brought to life – as your event unfolds, we turn conversations, key messages and big ideas into colourful illustrations, words and imagery, creating a visual snapshot of the moments that matter.
All drawn live, right before your eyes. Bold, brilliant and guaranteed to deliver that instant WOW factor!
Digital Sketchnotes
Reflective and refined – we gather photos, notes and ideas from your event, then retreat to our creative cave (tea and biscuits essential!) to turn them into a vibrant, fully illustrated digital sketchnote. Combining key messages, words and imagery, we create a polished visual summary that captures the heart of your event and brings its ideas to life.
Live Portraits
Give us five minutes, a little space for our doodle booths and we'll create a one-of-a-kind portrait that'll make you smile, laugh, cry or possibly all three at once!
With two wildly different styles and plenty of personality, our live portraits are guaranteed to bring joy, spark conversation and give your guests a brilliant little keepsake to take home.
Customised Merchandise
We will come to your conference, trade show or product launch and hand-personalise your merchandise right in front of your eyes.
Tell us what you want us to paint and we'll bring the paints and creativity in a flurry of icons, motifs and fun!
About us
At Sketchnotes UK, we believe complicated ideas don't have to be complicated to understand. We're creative people who also understand the world our clients work in. We turn conversations, information and big ideas into colourful, engaging visuals that make messages clearer, more memorable and much more interesting.
From live illustrations at conferences and events to digital sketchnotes, illustrated reports, bespoke artwork and murals, we use the power of pictures to bring stories to life.
Mandy Johnson
Founder & Chief Doodler
Becky Ullah
Chief Illustrator
Our team
Two artists. Two very different journeys. One shared love of turning big ideas into brilliant visuals.
We're Mandy and Becky – the creative minds behind Sketchnotes UK. We're illustrators, visual thinkers and enthusiastic believers that almost anything can be made more interesting with a little colour and creativity.
Our paths into illustration couldn't have been more different. One swapped the world of corporate finance and charity leadership for sketchbooks and paintbrushes; the other traded a medical career for a life filled with creativity, plants and pens.
Think Simon & Garfunkel, but with sketchbooks instead of guitars!
What brings us together is a passion for making ideas visible. We love taking complicated subjects, big conversations and important messages and turning them into engaging visuals that people can connect with, understand and remember.
And between us, we bring a rather unusual mix of skills, experience and perspectives to the table. Which, as it turns out, is a pretty handy combination when you're trying to make sense of big ideas.
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