How Do I Make My Illustrations?

Spoiler alert: not with Manim

There is a reason I regularly start my posts with the following sentence: “One of the most common questions I get is…“

My posts are often inspired by your questions. When I am asked something repeatedly, I know that something interesting is there. An intuitive explanation. An unexpected story.

However, I have never written about the actual most common question:

“How do you make your illustrations?”

You ask this under almost all of my posts, and I am happy to answer every time.

Today’s post is about the full process. You’ll learn

• what’s my color palette and how I designed it,

• how I make my drawings,

• and how I render the mathematical formulas.

Let’s get to it!