Graphic Recording Training
This online graphic recording course will teach you how to become a graphic recorder – whether you want to offer it as a professional service, bring it into your organisation, or simply transform how you capture and communicate ideas.
You’ve seen it. Someone standing at the front of the room, drawing on an iPad or on a virtual whiteboard and somehow capturing a whole conversation in real-time drawings. They manage to turn ideas into images. They clarify complex discussions with clear, memorable pictures. And you thought: I want to do that.
You’re in the right place.
You don’t need to be an artist. We teach drawing fundamentals in Week 1. What you need is curiosity, a willingness to practise and take feedback, and 12 weeks to build a skill that could genuinely change your working life.
Graphic recording (also called live scribing, graphic harvesting, or live illustration) turns spoken ideas into visual summaries that people actually remember and share. It’s the skill behind those big, colourful meeting murals – and also the smaller sketchnotes that capture learning in notebooks and tablets.
Your trainer, Cara Holland, has been graphic recording professionally for 20 years, working globally with organisations including Google, DHL and the NHS. She’s taught students from 92 countries. She’s condensed 20 years of professional experience and in-person training into this practical online course.
This isn’t passive video learning and it’s definitely not checkbox ticking. It’s 12 weeks of doing, practising, getting feedback from Cara, trying again, and building real skills with weekly lessons to do in your own time, all the while supported as an individual by your trainer in an online class community of no more than 20 people.
Registration officially closed on 15th September 2026.
We still have a few places left, so if you want to train online with individual tutor feedback from Cara Holland, this is your final chance… We’re changing our course offer in 2027!
Our graphic recording course is for you if…
you’ve seen graphic recording and want to learn how to do it yourself
you’re an illustrator or designer looking to add a new income stream
you work in communications, L&D, or events and want to bring this skill in-house
you already do some graphic recording but want expert feedback to improve
You don’t need: Prior drawing experience. An art degree. Fancy equipment. We teach you everything from the basics up.
In this online graphic recording course you will…
Gain confidence by walking through the end-to-end process of graphic recording for a client / event
Boost your practise with shortcuts, hard lessons learned and tips from an expert
Improve your flow and creativity with my repeatable step-by-step method of live graphic recording
Expand your portfolio with practical graphic recording, graphic translation and sketchnoting techniques
Take away invaluable real world industry insights into being a professional Graphic Recorder
Explore your post-course ambition with your newfound skills and confidence
You’re ready for this graphic recording course if
you can hold a pen (we teach you drawing fundamentals in week 1!)
you want to tell stories or explain theories, strategies or plans using illustrations
you want to learn by doing – apply your learning directly to real life even before the course finishes
you would benefit from a supportive framework to keep you accountable in your learning
This graphic recorder course will give you…
the techniques to create a professional graphic recording, whether with pens and paper or in digital formats
the skills to take your sketchnotes to the next level
the confidence to capture live meetings and sessions visually to bring them to life for participants and a wider audience
What people say about our graphic recorder training
Your graphic recording trainer Cara Holland
Cara has been a professional graphic recorder for 20 years, working in the UK and around the world. She has built up a successful UK graphic recording business with all kinds of organisations as clients, from the NHS to Google to IKEA.
Cara has developed her own personal graphic recording style and methods through trial and error and has put all of that learning into this step-by-step graphic recorder course.
What Cara says about this Graphic Recording course
The thing with doing graphic recording is that a big part of the ‘magic’ involved is not magic at all… it’s totally learnable. Ideas plus techniques plus practise makes a graphiker (yes, it is a word!). Whatever you call it, you can learn to be a live scribe, you can learn to be a sketchnoter, you can learn to be a graphic harvester!
I’ve done my 10,000 hours of practise, learning from my mistakes along the way. So I knew we had to build an online course that wasn’t about learning information. It wasn’t about ticking boxes on a quiz to see if you’ve briefly remembered facts, or watching videos of someone talking at you in a way you can’t absorb. This graphic recording course had to be about getting you drawing (digital or analogue), doing lots of real life assignments to already start to enhance your portfolio, and giving you lots of practical examples, tools and techniques to absorb, practise and make your own.
I give you my knowledge and experience, and you bring the practise. It’s the deal we make when you sign up to Be a Graphic Recorder. When we both do our bit …well I don’t mind saying that bit is the magic!
Be a Graphic Recorder Programme at a glance
Individual tutor feedback
Private Community to share coursework
Start course upon payment
Full payment £847, or $1145
12 weeks from when you join
Drawing Skills warm up lessons
Boost your practise with tutor coaching upgrade
3 month Payment Plan £285 or $385 a month
Sign up today for the final chance to join this unique blended online learning experience!
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