I'm finally finished this class. Full disclosure: the dates towards the end of the project are false. I usually date things accurately even if it shows I didn't do a daily challenge daily. For some reason, I wanted to keep the dates consecutive for the aesthetic of the little book I made. I know & now you all know the truth though :)

This is overall one of my favorite projects I've created from a Skill Share class so far. I have fallen in love with illustrated journaling & plan to explore it more. Thank you, Dylan for creating this class!

Day 14 - #Obsessed. Since I started doing Skill Share classes, I've found a new love for playing with watercolors. I've been eating a lot of fried egg sandwiches recently. There was one day that I made myself three throughout the day. NCT - give me all of the NCT content. I love them!

Illustrated Journal - image 1 - student project

Day 13 - Reliable Recipe. I was stuck on this one for awhile. I rarely follow recipes when I cook. I just do what feels right. I'll look something up if I've never cooked it before but I may still play around with flavors. I've recently found an evening routine that works for getting ready for bed so here it is...

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Day 12 - Toiletry Bag Favorites. I don't always buy the same cleansing & beauty products. These are some items I'm currently using & like. The Nature Republic foam cleanser is the only thing I've been consistently buying for awhile. I'm in the market for a different brand of eye brow makeup. I didn't want to add it since I'd rather not buy it anymore but it fit perfectly in the space I had left on the page.

Illustrated Journal - image 3 - student project Day 11 - Favorite Corner. I don't have a specific favorite area in my home space. I keep items that I need/want, love, & have a purpose. I was stumped on how to pick favorites or a favorite spot. I hang out in a corner of my dayroom during most of my waking hours when I'm home. I decided to capture that space.

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Day 10 - Grocery Run. I'm not the main grocery shopper in my house, so I tend to put off making personal runs. When I checked my budget book the last grocery type shopping I did was at a local farm market.

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Day 9 - Self-Care Necessities. Aka Reset Activities.

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Day 8 - I Keep Wearing. I didn't add color to this one because the colors in real life are black, white, and silver.

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Day 7 - Current Cravings. Cravings makes me automatically think of food but I realized it's so much more than that.

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Day 6 - Daily Routine. I don't have a specific routine. I try to be gentle with myself when I skip days of *insert task here.* I prefer to go with the flow and do what feels right.

Illustrated Journal - image 9 - student project Day 5 - Ingredients to my Mess. Almost everything I own has a home. Things get messy when I don't put something away right after I use it. I prefer to tidy as I go or do one big tidy during the day. Sometimes I neglect this but I try to not let it get too away from me. After watching the day 5 video, I looked up from my laptop to assess the state of my dayroom. I looked around for items that I had not put away yet & would look pleasing together. This is the result:

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Day 4 - Latest Reading Material: a selection of some current reads. I read a lot of non-fiction so I always have many books I'm in the middle of reading. I picked two colors from my watercolors that represented this collection of the best. I love doing splatter paint work with acrylic but never tried it with watercolor before. It's so much easier with watercolor. There's at least 2 other skill share users in this workshop in which I noticed splatter work with watercolor in their project & I was inspired to try it out. Thank you & I have to remember to comment a thanks in their projects :)

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Day 3 - Creating with... I thought about all of the things I've created in the past few weeks & picked out some of the tools that helped along my way. I choose purple & blue watercolor for my two pops of color. My scissors & pencil are purple. I had a blue bic wite-out mini in my line-up but pushed it aside since it wouldn't fit in the composition. Also, you can't really tell in the picture but the piece of washi tape I left on the page is a pastel blue & purple universe pattern. I used the tape during the painting process to keep the page flat. I decided to fold it over & include in in the final product. Illustrated Journal - image 12 - student project Day 2 - Recently I learned how brussels sprouts grow. I went to a local farm's Saturday market & saw brussels sprouts still attached to their stem/stalk. I had only ever seen the "tiny cabbages" in bags at super markets. It's fun to learn where food actually comes from. I looked up how to draw brussels sprouts on YouTube because I did not have the capacity to look at pictures & draw from those.

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Day 1 - Currently Listening to "Music" was the the first thing that popped into my head. Earlier in the day I had listened to my Spotify Liked Songs on shuffle. I picked an album cover with minimal colors to fit the color scheme of the prompt. This is a sampling of what I heard not in that order though...

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Create a Daily Art Practice for Self-Care: A 28-Day Challenge

11 janv. - 08 févr.

Create a Daily Art Practice for Self-Care: A 28-Day Challenge

11 janv. - 08 févr.