Inspiring Art Journals

This week is dedicated to inspiring art journals that hopefully make you start creating right away.

Towards the end of last year, I started to really miss drawing. When I want to come up with ideas, I need a pen and paper! Or maybe I should say that I need my art journals because that’s where the ideas stay in good order.

I made this spread in my colored pencil journal. 2023 is an old romantic woman that is going away and a young girl who is ready for adventure will take her place.

There are only a few pages after the previous year’s spread.

I hope to make more pages in this colored pencil journal this year.

Inspiring Art Journals

This week, I picked up random art journal books and browsed them. I especially love the one in the upper left corner with the black and white drawings the most.

The drawings have no color but they are all full of ideas that still inspire me.

I now want to add ink drawings to my colored pencil journal as well.

Tiny Pages

Last year I bought a very small art journal. This is a pretty cute page!

All the reds and pinks looked very nice together.

Years go by and my skills grow, but even the clumsiest covers still seem to fit with the new creations.

Doodler’s Resort

While browsing the journals, I found a spread with a transparent film in the middle. I had printed doodles on it and I still quite like the effect. This idea is from 2020, when the world stopped and I couldn’t do anything but mindless doodling.

This art journal also has a lovely inside cover.

Divide the Content!

I don’t understand why it took so long before I realized that I could add annual pages, inside covers, chapters, and other pages telling about the content of the book in art journals.

Nowadays, I have a course called Fun Botanicum, where you make a chapter cover, themed pages, and an end page in the middle of an art journal.

Inspiring Art Journals Tell About Time

It was fun to look at old art journals and wonder how these are connected to everything that is going on now.

Time is a mysterious place. It is like an illuminated palace that blinds us. We can only walk away from it to the darkness. But as long as we are alive, we can start the adventure and get creative. “It takes a long time to become young,” said Pablo Picasso.

In my opinion, only by drawing can we know what we really think. The more you draw, the more your skills grow, and the more you will find out!

Do you agree?