WRITING ON MEDIUM

Goodbye Unsplash

Or… Choosing to be a full content creator.

Image by Author :)

TL;DR¹

Content creation — not just writing — is about getting your voice across. Drawing is something that I have always been interested in, along with writing, so I thought I would add even more uniqueness to my articles.

Quick update: since writing this post (I put this on delayed publish) I have created multiple of my hand sketches for articles, and am quite pleased with the results — Picasso I am not — but happy I am.

Table Of Contents

1. I like Unsplash, But…
2. Hand-Drawn Stick figures Ahoy
↳ 2.1. What on earth is this article image?
3. The Method
4. Finding Your Inner Voice

I like Unsplash, But…

It is so easy to use the images on Unsplash — the integration with Medium is just fantastic, but…

Everyone is using it, you type in your search, a grid of pictures appears, and you choose one that sort of meets the criteria.

Few people will go to the second page of the results — it is just like the old joke:

“Where do you hide a…