I'm currently on #760, been doing a solid 25/day. Recently though I've found that I've been forgetting certain kanji over and over. However, I was inspired by watanuki's link for arrival (到: Climax, sword: he used Http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7731/karatesd3.jpg).

So now for the kanji that I fail in anki, I sit down and draw out a picture complete with dialog. My pictures look like xkcd.com-style stick figures, but I'm finding them helpful. For instance, for world (界) I have Tupac talking about "all around the world the same song...people starving...can't jam in any more fields...I'm gonna have a jam in a field to end world hunger".

Drawing these little pictures and writing out dialog is proving very helpful to me for now, and I'd love to hear about any other creative methods for remembering stories or any thoughts on this 'drawing it out' method

I *love* xkcd. BEST comic on planet web!

Mind sharing some of your pictures? I'd include 'em in this thread...

Sorry, but I've just been drawing them with a pen on a piece of scrap paper....however, I've also stolen some from the internet, like for FLAVOR (味) this picture of a cat who has a cute MOUTH and is NOT YET old enough to realize that what she's not tasty: http://www.roflcat.com/images/cats/1155731300679qq1.jpg

stoked Wrote:I *love* xkcd. BEST comic on planet web!

Mind sharing some of your pictures? I'd include 'em in this thread...

Am I the only one having problem with the 1 picture a kanji thread?
It takes ages to load since all pics are in one single posting.

Maybe the thread's postings could be split - according to the Heisig chapters (would make approx. 20/30 Kanji per posting).
Now it needs to load all the pictures - on one page - which is actually the reason why I am no regular visitor/user of the thread.
:-(

ThomasJ02 Wrote:Drawing these little pictures and writing out dialog is proving very helpful to me for now, and I'd love to hear about any other creative methods for remembering stories or any thoughts on this 'drawing it out' method

I am currently on #300, no doubt the time for more enhanced stories will come.

those stories are actually one of the reasons I enjoy studying Japanese/Kanji.

It challenges the brain, which is good! ... synapses getting an extra dose of exercise.

I drew a picture of Mikey from the ninja turtles wearing a bright pink G string ( I colour them tooo/ way too much time on my hands ) with me pointing at him saying " who the ***** would actually wear such gay attire " to remember the Kanji for "attire"

I've been drawing my stories from day one (currently at 780). I've filled up three composition notebooks. I find that it really helps cement the image in my mind when I put it to paper.

I have done just a few and found the process really interesting - not for the images, but for how it helped me strengthen my visualisation techniques moving forward (am just over 900 at the moment - hooray!). I wrote a bit about it in a different thread: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid197899

the history of some of the kanji is scary and memorable lol.
http://girlschannel.net/topics/48693/

Can you translate some of the article or summarise its main points?

I think its saying the kanji is a pictograph an eye of a slave that has had a needle stuck in it and thus has no pupil (because of scar tissue, I guess) and can't see. And its meaning ties in with that because it sort of means the common folk who are just led around and can't understand and see for themselves.

Is that something that actually happened?