hey friends Elizabeth here from plant based bride back again with another video and today
I'm excited to be back with another plan with me in my husband's bullet Journal it's been a
couple months since I posted one of these as you all now know we've had a very busy summer and my
husband was able to take some time off work to focus on home renovations and because he was
focused on that he didn't need his bullet journal in the same way that he normally does so he took
a month or two I can't remember now off of using his bullet journal and then for September I did
a really really simple setup for him if you want to see that set up as I said ridiculously simple
head over to my Instagram or my Tick Tock they're Linked In the description box down below and you
can check that out but today I'm excited to do a slightly less simple but still super simple setup
for October and the art for the setup is inspired by some vintage art that I found on Pinterest so
one is a piece of vintage art and the other is actually a vintage book book cover and I felt
like the styles of them went together really well and both evoked the feeling of heading out to the
Wilderness taking a canoe portaging and then staying in a cabin in the woods which is an
activity my husband loves and just recently did so I thought this would be a fun theme in honor
of something that my husband really enjoys this month instead of doing a separate cover page I
decided to create a sidebar of art beside the monthly calendar the calendar itself is super
simple but each day is big enough to really fit all of the stuff he has going on in his schedule
foreign I also decided to go with really simple sort of slightly rough slightly messy very hand
written looking lettering I mean all the lettering I do is handwritten but you know what I mean
I often spend a lot of time on lettering trying to make it look really consistent really neat
and this month I really tried to let go of that and just make something that looked like it could
have maybe been you know scratched into the side of a tree that kind of aesthetic foreign
moving to the sidebar as I said this was inspired by a piece of vintage art so for the most part I
was just recreating it here one thing I really liked about both of these pieces of art is that
most of the line work was in black but there was one piece that was highlighted in red and
I thought that was a really cool use of color and wanted to recreate that here so I'm using a
Stabilo fine liner in red to draw out this cabin and then I'm using a Sakura Micron to do all of
the rest of the details in Black foreign not only am I trying to recreate this vintage art but I
really want this to have sort of a sketchy quality to it to be a little messy a little
organic looking so I'm allowing myself to be a little more free form in the way that I'm drawing
the original piece of art showed more of a winter landscape the Forefront was covered
in snow and there was snow on the roof of the cabin because this is an October setup
I didn't quite want there to be snow just yet so I did change a couple things to make it a
little less snowy but still give a little bit of a cold Vibe the air is getting crisp it's Autumn
you know we feel the Turning weather in the air but not quite covered in a blanket of snow Yoda
came for a visit and a snuggle as she likes to do my cats are always helping while I'm at work
I really tried to recreate the essence of the trees from this piece of art that's what
really stopped me when I first saw it was the way that the trees were printed and I
found it actually quite difficult to draw trees this way but I really like how they
turned out so it might be a technique that I have to revisit in the future
thank you foreign
ears he also came for a visit he was lying on my lap for a while and if you follow me on Instagram
you'll know my lap is Chewy's favorite place and especially since we moved and he's been a little
off-kilter adjusting to a new space he definitely requires the comfort of my lap more often
I'm trying to combine some larger trees that are
more on the Forefront with some smaller trees that are further away maybe on a
hill that's descending away from the cabin just for some texture and different levels
and on the right side I'm trying to recreate what looked to me to be sort of a mountain range it's
a little difficult to tell because the quality of the art wasn't great it must have been scanned at
some point with a low resolution but but I wanted to create a little bit more Darkness I could have
gone in with a secure Micron with a larger nib to fill in the space but I really wanted that
irregularity again looking hand drawn having some lighter areas and darker areas I think that adds
to the more vintage Vibe rather than it being just a solid black mass I also added some strategic
black details to the cabin just to darken certain areas and I also added some darker trees just
around the outline of the cabin so that it would stand out from the background a little bit better
I covered up the smoke coming out of the chimney by accident while I was drying I just saw an empty
space and felt the need to fill it so I had to go back in with a white paint marker to add that
back in because there was supposed to be smoke coming out of the chimney I'm also adding some
details to the foreground to make it look a little bit more like an uneven sort of grassy hilly path
up to the cabin rather than the snowy landscape that it was in the original piece of art but I
didn't want to go too over the top so I just kept it simple with a couple areas of dashed
lines just to add a little bit more dimension flipping over to the next bread which is the
beginning of my husband's notes Pages this one as I said is a recreation of an old book cover that I
thought was super cool with this person carrying a canoe over their head portaging with the sun
setting in the background and again I felt like it really went with the other piece of art I found
because everything was in Black except for the sunset which was red it just felt serendipitous
like it was meant to be these two pieces of art just felt like they belonged together foreign
ER underneath again with that sort of slightly messy handwritten hand-drawn feeling filling in
the letters just by sort of scribbling although I did try to scribble a little darker at the top
and bottom and keep it lighter in the center just for a little bit of consistency across
the letters and for a little bit of Interest this entire setup was done with a single red pen and
a single black pen and a ruler and a pencil I guess because I sketched things out ahead
of time but very simple very few supplies and I love how it turned out and I feel like this
is something that can be applied to a lot of different types of art doing everything
in Black and White with a single pen but then picking one element to highlight in a color can
be really effective and really interesting so I hope you enjoyed this setup don't forget to
like this video if you liked it and subscribe if you haven't already I need to take a second to
thank my patrons for their support I've gotten quite behind on thanking individual patrons the
last couple months have been absolute chaos so I apologize so here I go starting to catch up on
those names extra special thanks to our patrons who joined the squad in August Ali another Ally
Alex Catherine Sierra Clayton Colette dandelion Dara Jean vieve Incognito Isabella Jill Jordan
Justine Keely Kim Marie Kimberly Kristen Megan Pamela perlinia Steph Sue and Vicky welcome all
of you to the squad we are so excited to have you everyone who joined us in September I will
get you in the next video I appreciate you all so so much and with that I'm gonna get
going thank you so much for watching and I'll see you really soon in my next one bye friends