I learned from their drawings too, but yours are delightful. 
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I absolutely love your artwork!
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I totally agree that the artwork is very nice. Nevertheless, I think part of what makes WaniKani work so well is the individual who is learning does the imagining. And that makes the memorisation work much better, for me at least.
I believe that different people can have different learning styles, and that some people learn easier just through words, while others prefer visual input.
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“Learning styles” is myth 18. And the evidence against the idea has only increased in the past decade.
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I really like this!!!
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That’s why I didn’t state it as a fact but just said “I believe” 
I think I would have liked seeing visual mnemonics in addition to the textual mnemonics from WK (because images are often faster at conveying information), but I can also understand that not everyone feels that way. Maybe the order of memorization effectiveness is really for everyone: 1. make your own mnemonics > 2. use WK mnemonics to imagine the scene in your head (unless you have aphantasia) > 3. see the scene depicted in an image. But even then, there is a trade-off between effectiveness and time consumption. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that many people just read the mnemonic text without taking the effort to visualize the scene in their head and are then surprised that the mnemonic didn’t work. I think in those cases a visual mnemonic might help.
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Yes, definitely this! I’ve done this many times.
By the way, someone recommended your app, and I’m curious if it could be modified to include the images in the initial Lessons (if it doesn’t already). Adding custom images seems easy enough (although an official updated list would be cool!), but; where do you get the subjectIds from? And, is there any way to constrain the image size?
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My script should already add the images to the lessons. If that doesn’t work, someone has to let me know so that I can fix it.
One way of getting the subject id is to navigate to the item’s page, right click on the page and select “Inspect” from the context menu, expand the <head> tag and search for the meta element containing the subject id: <meta content="..." name="subject_id"> (see screenshot). Alternatively, after clicking “Inspect” you could switch to the Console tab and enter document.querySelector("meta[name=subject_id]").content so that you don’t have to manually search for the tag.
What are you referring to with “image size”? The file size, so that it loads faster, or the display size, so that it better fits on the screen?
There also exists a script that allows you to add images to your meaning and reading notes, but it does not work on the lesson page.
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Ok cool, thanks! 
I meant the display size, so it soesn’t get too big.
just read the mnemonic text without taking the effort to visualize the scene in their head
Woah, I didn’t even realize people can do this. I wouldn’t even know how. Maybe this is why I can’t speed read anything that isn’t really abstract.
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Whoops too vague. I mean’t I wouldn’t know how to ready without visualizing automatically.
Sure, I think everyone does that to some degree. But the more effort you put into visualising the mnemonic, the better you recall it.
At least, that’s the idea. 
I have updated the script to allow limiting the image size by clicking on the image and “dragging” it with the mouse. But before I publish the change, I wanted to ask if you already made any changes to your local script copy (since it seemed like you planned to add other image links to the list)? Those changes would be lost if you update the script to the new version.
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Nope.
I have no images to add, unfortunately.
Edit: Correction, I now have one!!
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these are amazing! 
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Really nice work, both in terms of artistic quality and perseverance
I’ve been planning on doing something similar for combining drawing practice with reviewing burned items … but I’ve kind of been stuck in the “planning on doing” phase for a long time 
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Hey everyone! I’m so sorry I haven’t added any new drawings in over 3 months now. Life just got in the way. Ugh…but I’ll be working on them soon. So stay tuned!
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Just saw this, nice. I’m somebody who thinks more in images than in words, so these things would help so much!
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