Charles Leon
The Transformative Power of Sketching & ...

Sketching has enormous benefits for mental health and for problem solving.

The Transformative Power of Sketching & Creative Pursuits
Charles Leon
How Picasso Helped me publish my Book

There is a very famous film of Picasso painting live. About halfway through creating an effortless masterpiece he says “ Ca va tres mal” (it’s going very badly). Even someone like Picasso struggled to get a painting to go where he wanted it to go. It’s his self-belief, confidence and self-trust that allows him to work through the “bad” stage and experience that tells him that he can make it right. I’m certainly not in that league, but that helped me to understand that I should push through (although sometime you can try too hard and take a sketch too far) and trust my instinct.

How Picasso Helped me publish my Book
Charles Leon
A Cotswold Recce

I don't think many places in the UK have so much condensed beauty in such a relatively small area as the Cotswolds.

A Cotswold Recce
Charles Leon
What you “See” is what you "Get".

Learning to see clearly through daily sketching

What you “See” is what you "Get".
Passion, Design Thinking
Charles Leon
PASSION

You have to go full throttle; passion will pull you through. It's a virtuous circle; the more passion you have, the more you get.

Thinking creatively and passionately drives motivation, and your motivation drives creative thinking.

PASSION

Mindset

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Six Socratic Questions for Critical Thinking

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Six Socratic Questions for Critical Thinking

The 6 questions of Socratic Questioning are still highly relevant today and indispensable to problem-solving. Problem-solving and critical thinking are indispensable to any creative pursuit or design thinking, where integrity, authenticity, and truth are important. In fact, the Socratic method of questioning is the essence of critical thinking.

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Will the Sun Rise Tomorrow? Critical Thinking.

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Will the Sun Rise Tomorrow? Critical Thinking.

If the sun rises on the eastern horizon every morning, are we right to expect it to do so tomorrow?

Philosopher, David Hume says our expectation is irrational, and, as I’ve mentioned before, irrationality is what we do best and goes to the heart of how we think we think.

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