This document outlines a visual thinking course that teaches tools and techniques for visual communication. It covers topics like essential drawing shapes, using stick figures, recognizing patterns, the 6x6 rule for organizing visual ideas into a grid, applying imagination through the SQVID framework, and methods for presenting visuals both physically and digitally. The course aims to help students go from gathering and understanding data to developing visions and showing their ideas in a visual format.

1. BEGINNING VISUAL THINKING
 Intro to the Napkin Academy
 The Tools We need
 Materials Checklist  (Printout)
 The Pen Color Test
 The Visual Thinking Kit
 Tool Kit  (Printout)
 How to Draw Anything
 Drawing 5 Essential Shapes
 How to Draw People
 Advanced Stick Figures
 Look-See-Imagine-Show
 LSIS  (Printout)
 LOOKING PART 1: Data to Idea
 LOOING PART 2: Data to Visual
 SEEING PART 1: Pattern Recognition
 SEEING PART 2: The 6 Problems
 The Visual Business Translator
 SEEING PART 3: The 6 Ways We See
 Intro to the 6 X 6 Rule
 The 6 X 6 Rule  (Printout)
 6 x 6 RULE SLICE 1: Portrait
 6 x 6 RULE SLICE 2: Chart
 6 x 6 RULE SLICE 3: Map
 6 x 6 RULE SLICE 4: Timeline
 6 x 6 RULE SLICE 5: Flowchart
 6 x 6 RULE SLICE 6: Plot
 6 x 6 RULE SLICE 6B: Example Plot
 How to Use the 6 x 6 Rule
 Putting All 6 Together
 APPLIED IMAGINATION: The SQVID
 SQVID  (Printout)
 SQVID S: Simple
 SQVID Q: Quality
 SQVID V: Vision
 SQVID I: Individual
 SQVID D: Difference
 How to Use the SQVID
 SQVID FINAL: Imagination in Action
 Intro to Showing
 The Visual Codex
 Codex  (Printout)
 How to Use the Visual Codex
 How to Draw Live
 How to Draw Digitally
 You’re the Visual Master
 Certificate  (Printout)
RED BELT  CHECKLIST
Start
Look
See
Imagine
Show
Finish
RED BELT PATH FROM THE BOOK
Back of the Napkin
John D. Hipsley
Sunnyvale, CA