Bring your ideas to life—live.

 

At Illuscribe, we specialise in live illustration—capturing ideas, conversations, and key messages as they unfold in real time. Whether you're hosting a conference, community event, strategic planning day, or workshop, our live illustration services transform spoken content into vibrant, hand-drawn visuals that engage, clarify, and stick with your audience.
 

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What Is Live Illustration?

Live illustration (also called graphic note-taking or visual scribing) is a creative way of visually documenting events as they happen. Our illustrator listens closely, synthesises complex ideas, and draws them out using icons, expressive text, and storytelling visuals. These large-scale drawings are created in the room—or remotely in real time—to create a shared visual memory of your event.

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Why Choose Visual Note-Taking?

People think and learn visually. Visual note-taking helps simplify complexity, aid understanding, and encourage deeper participation. A live-drawn illustration becomes a talking point, a summary, and a creative artefact—useful for reporting back to stakeholders, creating lasting impact, and making your ideas more accessible.

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Benefits of live illustration include:

• Better engagement and retention

• Clear communication of key messages

• Inclusive, non-verbal ways of capturing ideas

• A visual record you can reuse and share
   

What We Offer

We provide tailored live illustration for a range of settings:

• In-person graphic scribing at events, strategy days, and away days

• Remote visual note-taking via video call or webinar

• Hybrid event support with visuals shared live on-screen

• Post-event artwork cleaned up and formatted for reports, social media, or prints

• Custom illustrations based on recordings or transcripts when live attendance isn't possible
   

All artwork is hand-drawn and created with care to reflect the tone, purpose, and values of your event.

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Who It's For

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We work with clients who care about impact. Our live illustration services are trusted by:

• Charities and social enterprises

• Local authorities and public sector teams

• Health and care partnerships

• Education and research organisations

• Community groups and creative networks
   

Whether you’re planning a policy roundtable or a participatory arts event, we adapt our approach to your audience, space, and purpose.

Live scribing, graphic recording, event illustration, real-time visual note-taking, sketch notes, graphic facilitation, visual storytelling, conference illustration, visual mapping, creative meeting notes.

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