When working through the creative phase of a design, I use colour pencils to layout diagrams and think through issues. So I thought that I would put a sample drawing and get some comments back from people.
Are you doing something similar ? Do you have any suggestions ?
Note: In Europe, we don’t have cube walls, so there are very few whiteboards around so we tend to sketch diagrams at our desks
Data Center Outline
So this is a rough sketch of a Cisco Data Centre 2.0 type using Service Chains for a single data centre. I think using colour pencils make it more compelling and more interesting.
Postscript
Occasionally I wish I had done some more creative stuff at school, or could I make time to to do some drawing or art classes. But then, I start reading a new book or design notes and forget about it. After all, people don’t hire me to draw pictures…….or do they ?
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About Greg Ferro
A decent part of any networking job is drawing IMHO. If not for documentation, then for one’s own comprehension. I correlate my knowledge of a specific network with how well I can draw it from memory.
A big white-board with 5-6 color markers does the trick for me. I’ve been known to confiscate other departments’ boards if one is not immediately available
my best tools are my A3 sketch pad and my clutch pencil!
I only learn visually – and this includes my own networks. when i make a reasonable image in pencil, i photocopy it large and stick it to my wall.
omnigraffle is only used for clients