Sketchnoting 101: "The world through the eyes of Le Corbusier"

Sketchnoting 101: "The world through the eyes of Le Corbusier"

As my project for this course I chose to do a sketchnote about Le Corbusier, pioneer of modern architecture.

My first idea was to structure the sketchnote like you would build a house: from the foundation upwards ("The Construction of Le Corbusier").
While drawing a first rough sketch, however, I had increasing difficulties with this reversed reading direction:

I decided to collect some information first.

Mesmerized by the massive glasses Le Corbusier used to wear, I made another rough sketch around a pair of his glasses:

I wrote down the following subtitle: "Designer, Painter, Urban Planner, Writer And Pioneer Of Modern Architecture", which made me wonder if that could probably provide a better structure to my sketchnote:

This alternative structure didn't really convince me, mostly because I had no idea, how to fit ALL the information I had researched into this very limited structure while telling at least some kind of interesting story.

So I picked up my Corbu-glasses-sketch again and started to refine it:

When the sketch was done, I had a decision to make:
Would I go digital with my sketchnote or would I stick to my ink-watercolour-sketchbook setup?

I took the red pill and chose the analogue path.

My goal was to show key moments in Le Corbusiers life and in becoming the GOAT of architecture. I liked the Idea of a journey through his life, starting in his teenage years, so I decided to mark the key events I wanted to depict with Le Corbusier'S age at that time:

However, I ran a little short of paper after World War 2 (Le Corbusier was in his fifties, then), so I had to cut off the rest of the story - only to find out that he realised most of his brilliant buildings AFTER that...

Lesson learned... :)

I decided not to be so hard on myself and colour the sketchnote anyway:

I am very satisfied with the final result from an aesthetic point of view, but the small difficulties along the way showed me that I could have - or should have - perhaps tightened up the structure a little more.

Who knows? Maybe I'll get carried away again and post a revised (digital?) version...

What do YOU think?