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I have never in my life every managed to complete a paper journal, I don't know what made me think I'd be able to keep up with an online one. The last time I wrote in a paper journal I was keeping semi-regularly was April of 2014, which was only about a year before I dropped this one cold turkey. No one should be surprised. It's really sad, because I love the ~look of paper journals? I have a lot of empty, very pretty journals.
Sketchbooks, on the other hand, I've finished a surprising number of? Like, I dug up and flipped through all the sketchbooks I still have possession of, and most of them are finished! Or at least, finished except for two or three pages at the very end, which is good enough for me, honestly. Okay, I just counted them, and it's actually less than that, 5 finished and 6 not, but that's partially because I just got two new ones in the past month, so I'm sticking by my "most are finished" assessment.
I've been getting back into sketching and drawing, lately. This is largely Youtube's fault. I have no idea how I stumbled across him in the first place, but I've been subscribed to![[youtube.com profile]](https://youtube.com/favicon.ico)
DrawWithJazza for a couple of months? And following him led me to a whole bunch of other art channels, like itwentbang (Doodle Date) and MsChlosey (Chloe Rose Art), who are all delightful and hilarious. It got my fingers itching for a pencil again.
So out came the old drawing case (a toolbox with my art supplies from school: charcoal pencils and sticks, graphite pencils, erasers, a couple of inks?), out came my sketchbooks from the back of the unorganized closet, and out came my Amazon wishlist. Most of my old sketchbooks are of the 9x12 spiral bound variety, though I've also got an 11x14, a 5.5x8.5, and a giant 18x24 that was for my college class. The two I'm working in now are a Strathmore softcover multimedia sketchbook, and the 5.5x8.5 Canson Sketch. Flipping through them, I found my two main subjects other than fanart are, to no surprise, maps and fashion, so since everything is spread throughout all of them with no real sense of organization (which is driving me nuts), I've been working on copying things over. The small book is becoming my Fashion Journal - I've got most of the sketches transferred from one of my finished ones, and I'd forgotten how much I'd like the layered looks for a while there. My maps are all going into one of my newer spiral bound books, since it already has a bunch of map icons and stuff in there.
...and this is why I rarely manage to finish a written journal: I've already lost the thread of whatever I was talking about here and can't think of a graceful way to wrap it up, so I'll just end it here, I guess.
Sketchbooks, on the other hand, I've finished a surprising number of? Like, I dug up and flipped through all the sketchbooks I still have possession of, and most of them are finished! Or at least, finished except for two or three pages at the very end, which is good enough for me, honestly. Okay, I just counted them, and it's actually less than that, 5 finished and 6 not, but that's partially because I just got two new ones in the past month, so I'm sticking by my "most are finished" assessment.
I've been getting back into sketching and drawing, lately. This is largely Youtube's fault. I have no idea how I stumbled across him in the first place, but I've been subscribed to
So out came the old drawing case (a toolbox with my art supplies from school: charcoal pencils and sticks, graphite pencils, erasers, a couple of inks?), out came my sketchbooks from the back of the unorganized closet, and out came my Amazon wishlist. Most of my old sketchbooks are of the 9x12 spiral bound variety, though I've also got an 11x14, a 5.5x8.5, and a giant 18x24 that was for my college class. The two I'm working in now are a Strathmore softcover multimedia sketchbook, and the 5.5x8.5 Canson Sketch. Flipping through them, I found my two main subjects other than fanart are, to no surprise, maps and fashion, so since everything is spread throughout all of them with no real sense of organization (which is driving me nuts), I've been working on copying things over. The small book is becoming my Fashion Journal - I've got most of the sketches transferred from one of my finished ones, and I'd forgotten how much I'd like the layered looks for a while there. My maps are all going into one of my newer spiral bound books, since it already has a bunch of map icons and stuff in there.
...and this is why I rarely manage to finish a written journal: I've already lost the thread of whatever I was talking about here and can't think of a graceful way to wrap it up, so I'll just end it here, I guess.
