Arts, education, science, and business have derivatives in sketching, drawing and rendering. Communicative endeavors benefit from the addition of graphics. Here are two presentations of a simple recipe for brown sugar pecan ice cream.. One example is thorough and text based; the other is a visual demonstration that reveals how deliciously easy the ice cream is to make.
 
 

Brown Sugar Pecan Ice Cream Heat to dissolve 1-cup packed brown sugar in 4-cups milk or cream. Slowly add 4 eggs.   Remove from heat, add 2 teaspoons vanilla and cool thoroughly.   Put mixture in the frozen canister of an ice cream maker and churn 20 minutes.   Add 1-cup broken butter pecans during the last three minutes of the cycle.   Place ice cream in freezer safe container and store in freezer.

Information diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs enhance comprehension, memory and production. A visual path animates brain waves, thought and creativity.
 

As words are practiced through speech and text daily, the ability to visualize ideas should not be ignored. Many of us find ourselves making a “doodle in the margins” at meetings, lectures and phone calls. During such events, mapping ideas, caricaturing speakers and sketching places can enhance information processing. Reviewing notes that are accompanied by related drawings helps to incorporate a sense of understanding, time and place.
 

Artists are taught that drawing is the foundation of the visual arts. Life drawing allows one to gain experience in the coactions of one’s eyes, hands, and strokes with another’s body. Is there a relationship between this method of life understanding and the ability to design flow charts? Is there a place where the acts of drawing, whatever the reason, are conterminal? Can this place begin in the 6-cm. screen of the PDA device?
 

Those who organize their lives through the use of a PDA have the opportunity to draw, and sketch with various painting and drawing software. These programs create, edit, store and share image files between platforms and users. [1] The tool palettes include a variety of lines, textures and tools to include text, animation and diagramming. [2]
 

S Burkett shares these TealPaint, (http://www.tealpoint.com/) screenshots from a Palm V:
 
 

The Image Manager	Primary Tools	Textures
Pen/Brush Types	Sample Menu Options	The Animation Menu

 
 

The makers of TealPaint, a PDA shareware program, reports the use of its drawing instrument by field engineers creating wiring diagrams to take back to the office PC and architects sketching on location.
 

Artistic License president Sande Zeig shared her use of the PDA with the Independent, a publication of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers. Zeig, in the preproduction of her first film, “The Girl,” used her PDA to create stick figures, storyboards and plans for her next day’s shoot. An animator at Industrial Light and Magic uses the PDA for its animation capabilities. He is able to draw, copy and repeat cells to animate them using a tool that simulates a flipbook technique. [3]
 

Creative individuals use the palm device for sketching and drawing activities yet some artists are loath to use a screen device, but it is a pity considering the ease of creating and maintaining files. Many artists require the texture of the drawing surface pulling in one direction as the marking wand is pulling in another. Screen devices do not offer this sensation. Artist Simon Faithfull exhibited his PDA drawings of East London at the Whitechapel Gallery and describes the process:
 

“I am attracted to the clunkiness of a Palm Pilot and the real difficulty of drawing with it; it is not a natural thing to draw with. In terms of its performative side, once the pixels are laid down they are laid down. It is a very crap, but very immediate, record of that moment, of seeing something and attempting to encapsulate it in some way.” [4]
 

Simon Faithfull's Half Life Installation at the Whitechapel. [5]
 

Artist Tom Kemp does not allow the small screen detour him. He claims to have created “the first serious contemporary artwork produced entirely on a handheld computer; it is 4 feet high and 16 feet wide.” Using the idea of patterns and repetition Kemp has transferred his PDA images to various surfaces and combined them to present them together in a wide format. Here is an example of some of his patterns: [6]
 

Albert Temple’s (Gene Catlow) drawings on the PDA are lively and entertaining. He relies on his PDA and offers his reflections of life, work and cats in his art: [7]
 

“I dunno if it qualifies as an addiction, but on my last job I *definitely* couldn't do without my Palm Pilot. :) There were little bits of pertinent info I constantly had to take down, and my PDA was so handy, I referred to it as "my brains" or "my mind". And when I misplaced it, I'd "lost my mind." <:)”

[1] Houser, C., Sketch: a program for fast, easy, and natural drawing on a computer.

[2] Burkett, S., Sketching with a Palm Pilot.

[3] Pinsker, B., Storyboarding on the Subway TealPaint is a filmmaker's mobile tableau.

[4] Faithfull, S., December 2000

[5] Simon Faithfull's Half Life Installation at the Whitechapel. http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/walk/gkb52/temporaryaccommodation/exhibition/faithfull/installation-main.html

[6] Tom Kemp Analysis

[7] Albert Temple (Gene Catlow)