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Hollie

Jaime and I had our regular brunch today and as usual I added to the "brunch book", a homemade sketchbook where I sketch a page while we talk. Today it was the french press on my table holding our first pot of tea. Haven't painted this yet, she just left and I'm trying to decide on colors.

Highly recommend getting into a regular social habit with a friend if you can manage it. It REALLY helps the despair.

Pen and ink drawing of a french press, with tea leaves at the bottom and a reflection of the room behind me drawn into the lid, outline of my shape and a doorway on either side. The lines are made with a bent-tip fude pen and so are thick and thin and wonky, hopefully in a fun way. The date on the side says April 20th, 2025.
#PenAndInk#ArtJournal#FrenchPress
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tinkerishe
At the beginning of March, I was gifted a basket full of yarn skeins. I crochet as well as draw, so this is perfect. I wanted to commemorate the moment with a little sketch of yarn. I love how the sketch turned out! It's one of my favorites from this month.

I didn't draw it true to any skein of yarn in the basket given me. In fact, I don't think there was any green yarn in the basket. But this drawing was fun because I took something real and reimagined it in a very small way. This style is very me... it's where I'm most confident. It makes me happy because I can also see notes of how far my art has come as I've practiced & also as I've been reading more about art.

#art #doodle #yarn #bujoart #bulletjournal #artjournal #journal #dotgrid #drawyourworld #drawyourlife
A journal entry on dot grid paper, reading: "Meal plan for next week Drew working Thurs, Fri and Sun. Finish wraps (have again) Pizza Omelettes?" Just below all of this is a colored pencil sketch of an unraveling skein of Kelly green yarn with a yellowed wrapper. On the wrapper, in red lettering is the word "Yarn" in cursive handwriting. The string is drawn in loops across the page for decoration.
#drawyourlife
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tinkerishe
Scroll for sketch. This image is actually from a couple weeks back. I'm behind in sharing some of my work.

Lately, I've been practicing drawing from photos I've taken. Drawing my pets is sometimes difficult -- it definitely shows me where I need to do more work. Like here. Definitely need to pay more attention to light and shadow and how they work on cloth items. Also, I was too chicken to even attempt the stripes of her brindling. Pepper is so cute sleeping like that. The pillow is my spouse's & he's her favorite person.

#dog #sleep #sketch #pencilsketch #art #drawing #drawaphoto #bujoart #bulletjournal #artjournal
A brown brindle dog with large, pointed ears lays with it's head on an apple-red pillow, sleeping.
A simple, amateur pencil sketch of the dog in the previous image.
#artjournal
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Nina Zina
Blogpost part 2 of some awesome videos for artjournal & grimoire inspiration! Check my blog for all the links:
https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/some-of-my-favourite-witchy-videos-part-32-more-journal-grimoire-inspiration/

The list includes videos with junk journal tips, how to use book pages in art, how to use "dutch doors" in bullet journals, interactive journal ideas, a wish bottle grimoire spread, a magical playbook, and book recommendations. 🥰


#witchtube #artjournal #grimoire #junkjournal #bulletjournal #artinspiration #fedicoven #witchcraft
Drawing of two women sitting on floor. One with short dreads reading a journal or zine and one with long straight hair playing guitar. Text: "Some of my favourite witchy videos about journals & grimoires".
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Nina Zina
As you can see I’m working in a LOT of journals and notebooks for 2025: a bullet journal, tarot journal, pocket diary, bujo ideas notebook, word of the year junkjournal, moon spells notebook, spring adventures artjournal, and many others. (Help! 🙂 ). That may seem like overkill but let me explain in my blogpost why this works for me:

https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/oh-nooo-all-my-journals-and-notebooks-for-2025-too-many/

#bulletjournal #journal #junkjournal #artjournal #planner #notebooks #traveljournal #tarotjournal #grimoire #botanicaljournal #sketchbook
Messy pile of notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, and journals. Text says: "On no... all my journals for 2025".
#sketchbook
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Petra van Cronenburg

I haven't drawn for ages. But yesterday was so lovely: we museum animators made lots of mistakes (spring?), swore and giggled like schoolchildren, cracked silly jokes, and enjoyed the sun and the visitors. Someone showed me a crocheted frog and in the evening, I had to put my mood on paper.
Of course, we were shocked by politics but we shared stories about the heros who resist and talked about more creative ideas.

A big, cartoon-like friendly frog with big eyes and a smile sit's on swimming leaves. In the background tulips in front of a sunny yellow sky. Sky and water has doodle structures. Page of a cheap art journal, drawing made with the cheapest felt-tip pens for children.
#frog#frogArt#cartoon
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Wusi (Christina)

6 days into #the100dayproject and I’m really enjoying my little happy place sketchbook.

In past projects the pressure of sharing every day helped to keep me going, but this year’s simple intention to create a moment of happiness in my day, has been enough. This feels like some profound realization, even though it’s so obvious.

Anyways, here’s a little phoenix, because I needed a reminder today that setbacks are okay and I can always keep coming back.

Sketchbook open on a small wooden tray that serves to hold brushes, pens, paints and water in place, while keeping everything on my lap. The sketchbook is open on a page with a simple, but dynamic watercolor sketch of a phoenix. The colors are warm and bright, the shapes simple, with lots of flow. Next to the phoenix it says “I WILL RISE” in red letters.
#sketchbook#artjournal
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