How to Journal Like an Artist: A Beginner's Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal - The Easy Way to Learn to Doodle and Draw

By Jane Maday

Jumpstart your creativity with this inspiring guide to transforming your daily journal into an illustrated record of your life, your thoughts, your loves, your goals

Special features:

Perfect for the Beginner: Even if you have never picked up a pencil or marker, author Jane Maday's encouraging and easy-to-follow instructions will have you drawing in no time.A Wonderful Gift: Includes over 300 full-color drawings printed on premium quality paper with a sewn binding that allows you to open it flat.Great Author: Artist and popular Instagrammer Jane Maday is known for the super-cute art she includes in the journal pages she posts every day.Bonus: Five pages of fully colored original Jane Maday images you can cut out and collage into your own journalArtist/author Jane Maday is a popular Instagrammer with a large following devoted to checking out the positive and affirming pages she posts daily from her own journal, which are populated with delightful doodles of garden flowers, kittens, cups of tea, and so much more. In How to Journal Like an Artist, Jane shares her how-to-draw process so that you too can add imaginative visual embellishments to your words.

Got a voice in your head saying, "But I can't draw"? Jane takes care of that with supportive advice on getting in touch with your creative side and silencing your inner critic. Can't think of anything to draw? Jane shows you that everything in your life can be an inspiration for your own personal art, whether it be your favorite foods, things that make you happy, or what you did yesterday.

Jane guides you through the basics of drawing faces, bodies, hands, babies, flowers, trees, dogs, butterflies, birds, and more. She also provides you with lettering templates, sample borders and banners, and other ideas for putting the finishing touches on your illustrated pages.

Finally, she provides you with five pages of beautiful fully colored images that you can cut out and use to collage into your own journal, as well as extra pages for you to practice your drawing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168462066X
• ISBN13: 9781684620661
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Get Creative 6
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

This is a WONDERFUL look at how to make beautiful Journal pages!

This adorable book starts with a list of supplies that you might want to try. There is no pressure sales and no name dropping. Just lists colored pencils, watercolors, markers, etc. I find her preplanning very interesting. She plans her page on either grid paper or on tracing paper to preserve the paper in her sketchbook from multiple erasures. Then she inks her design and adds color. She show several of her pages from planning to completion. I really enjoyed the book and feel like I learned a lot! I'm going to try using tracing paper over the grid paper to help me to keep my designs straight. It discusses drawing people, hands, trees, and birds. I highly recommend it !