Stop for a moment and think about your life in the long term. Think about what you want to be able to look back on. Will you gain satisfaction from the journey you have taken in your life? Will you take pleasure in seeing how far you have developed as …
Who sticks their tongue out when they are trying to concentrate? Or when they draw? I do and I have been thinking/drawing so hard my tongue is all dried up I am sure it looks like a prune or perhaps a pickle. I have been working up a few designs …
There is a good piece on using a visual journal as an artist’s planner over on D*I*Y Planner. It takes the angle that since many creative souls are disorganised using a visual journal as a planner increases productivity. I have pointed out before that Visual journals do not have to …
I was asked to post images of some of the page spreads of my visual journals. “Nothing too personal” but something. I hate to shatter illusions, but personal stuff does not go in my visual journals. I don’t spend a lot of time looking inward as there is too much …
Arlee over on Albedo Design has an interesting question/discussion on planning and using visual journals . I am going to chip in my two cents worth here because my ideas on this are too long to be left as a simple comment. I think most people when they look at …
The journals of Dan Eldon are online. Since childhood Dan kept notebooks as his mother was an art teacher who filled his room with art materials and provided him with a constant supply of notebooks. “From the beginning, the journals were a home for ephemera. He pillaged the house for …
Working up designs in my studio journal is something I do all the time. Visual Journals and Studio Journal more or less mean the same thing. This article was in part prompted by a conversation I had with a work colleague the other day. He was saying that he works …
