We bring your event to life
About Us
At Sketchnotes UK, we turn complicated ideas into clear and engaging visuals. We call them sketchnotes — hand-drawn visual notes that mix drawings, words, and layout to show key messages in a simple and memorable way.
We help our clients share their message more clearly by turning talks, workshops, events, focus groups, reports, ideas and more into eye-catching visuals that make it easier to understand and remember.
BUT, we don't just create sketchnotes, we illustrate in many other ways...
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 can capture the magic of your conferences, workshops or event:
Live and unfiltered – pens, colour and creativity come together in real time, right before your eyes. Bold, brilliant and guaranteed to deliver that instant WOW factor!
Digital Sketchnotes
Reflective and refined – we gather photos, notes and doodles before retreating to our creative cave (tea and biscuits essential!) to create a vibrant, polished digital sketchnote capturing the heart of your event.
Live Portraits
Give us 5 minutes and space for our doodle booths and we will create a portrait that will make you smile, laugh, cry or all of the above at once.
Two wildly different styles with wildly different reactions, it's sure to bring joy and lot of chatter to your event.
Customised Merchandise
We will come to your annual 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 turn complicated ideas into clear and engaging visuals. We call them sketchnotes — hand-drawn visual notes that mix drawings, words, and layout to show key messages in a simple and memorable way.
We help our clients share their message more clearly by turning talks, workshops, events, focus groups, reports, ideas and more into eye-catching visuals that make it easier to understand and remember.
Whether you're a business owner, teacher, or event planner, our sketchnotes help your message stand out and connect with your audience.
Mandy Johnson
Founder & Chief Doodler
Becky Ullah
Chief Illustrator
Associates
Freelancers
Our team
Mandy Johnson used to be a CEO—but don’t hold that against her. She’s swapped balance sheets for sketchpads, turning sprawling strategies into one page of genius that actually makes sense. She can take a 200-page report, find the real point, draw it memorably—and still land the punchline before your coffee goes cold. Equal parts strategist, artist, and mischief-maker, Mandy makes big ideas clever, human, and doodle-approved.
Becky Ullah is a former doctor who swapped her stethoscope for a sketchbook—proving anatomy and artistry aren’t that far apart (though sketching a pancreas rarely comes up at conferences). She has the unflappable calm of someone who’s seen things you really don’t want to Google and the razor-sharp focus to turn complex explanations into visual stories that actually make sense. She sketches like a ninja, plans like a strategist, and somehow makes it all look effortless..
Together, they’re like Simon & Garfunkel with pens (and maybe a touch of karate with highlighters). Two brains, four hands, one gloriously ridiculous mission: making ideas visual, human, and engaging. From live conferences to turning 80-slide PowerPoints into sketchnotes you’d actually consider framing for your wall, Mandy and Becky draw with empathy, energy—and the kind of chemistry that could probably power a small city (if only they’d stop arguing over whose pen is faster).
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