these are some common symbols used in iSketch.

the red under the leg says 'tion' because it sounds like shin.. sorry my handwriting is kind of bad.
If you know of anymore symbols feel free to add

(think i spelled syllables wrong too :P)

I have often seen 'of' drawn with an arrow pointing 'off' the table thingy from in, on, under.

In rooms such a Movies, where there are lots of words, an apple represents 'a'. This is only allowed when 'a' is the whole word, not when 'a' is a part of another word.

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Thanks very helpful, sometimes it can be a bit confuzing

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Quiksilver

don't people use a circle with a horizontal line through it to indicate "the" ?

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yeah.. i missed some symbols

oops

Wow, that's really helpful. Just today, someone drew an "in" thing and I had no idea what it was.

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RA-RA RASPUTIN! LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN! THERE WAS A CAT THAT REALLY WENT ON!
RA-RA RASPUTIN! RUSSIA'S GREATEST LOVE MACHINE! IT WAS A SHAME HOW HE CARRIED ON...
Listen to the song, I daaaarrreeee you.

Ll join the club, i still have big problems with the symbals.Thats why im always in easy rooms hehehe

Silly element, you put in and on, but left out out and off! Hope you don't mind me adding a few of my own :)



"The" is drawn as such because of the greek letter "Theta" if anyone was wondering..

"It" is derived from cousin it, from The Addams Family. The apple is also sometimes used to denote "Ap" in a syllabilized word, but more often used as the single word "A." An eye is also often used to denote the single word "I."

yeah, after i posted i realized i forgot some, but feel free to add more if you think of any

Ah, I usually cross out short words like "an, the, of and with" in the syllables symbol.

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Rastafari is not a culture, it's a reality

This is a thread just to show some of the symbols commonly used in iSketch by artist's to assist them with more complicated words. I've done a few, but it would be great to have it added to over time and then we'll have a good collection for new players and perhaps even some not so new ones to use for reference. Excuse my Microsoft word... yeah I'm aware I could have switched that off. lol


Sounds like is probably the most commonly used...it's handy, it means you can draw 'flower', for 'flour', for instance.

Double posting... don't worry... the mods are aware.

Just to finalise that post with this. If you got the word reproduction and were shy like me... although I normally draw rabbits I admit. It might look something like this:


There was also this thread...

http://www.isketchforum.net/commonly...73.html?t=1273

Where some of them are... but I'd forgotten it was there... it contains the symbols for 'the', 'it' and 'a' etc...

Rabbits?? You saying we are promiscuous?????

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this is a good thread; maybe it should be either stickied, or added to the "commonly used symbols" thread under 'Help.'

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Your wish is my command! Very helpful stuff there Buffs, would be great if we can collect everything together here in one easy place :)

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Thanks, very helpful. Might come in handy for the game of iS tonight. :)

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Some thoughts on the symbols....
"re" = I kind of have a problem when people use the black round arrows for "re" because I tend to confuse it with turn...

"ver/vert" and "sur" are commonly seen in expert

"per" and "al/all" = I got these from the Science room, although I'm sure they're used in other rooms. The players in science are something else, they have loads of cool symbols....

"the/a/an" = I didn't know this until recently but apparently this symbol came from Greek letter Theta..haha

Also, I kind of disagree with the use of apple for "a" and eye for "i" seeing as it's against the rules:P, I didn't know it was allowed in movies though!

It's allowed if the word is "I" or "a" but not as part of a word.

Ah! I never knew that :D

Movies Expert has the restriction not to draw any individual words. But as BB says, those are fine for the words 'a' and 'I' in other rooms.

By the way, thanks for posting the very comprehensive chart !

wow. those don't seem familiar at all

This is a wonderful thread, and thanks for the comprehensive list spectre =) Here are a few more common ones we use in sci, expert and probably other rooms too- and sorry if I got a little too carried away

Plus a couple of extras ;) (I couldn't resist! )

So I decided to make my own list as well and out of curiousity (even though I do use it..) why is the the line with a circle?

Because it's the simple rendering of the 'theta' symbol = the

I've seen a few people use the theta symbol to define other very short words like a, an, am, if, is etc. but it's not very common. If you draw those it's best to draw longer words that contain the two letters, like amber for am. Only draw "a" as a single word in a multi-word drawing though, and not as a single syllable of course :)

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