hey guys it's Kaitlyn and today I'm going to be doing a full art journal
flip through this is the second art journal that I filled it's a mini
moleskin art edition and it's says sketch book on it when you buy it this journal
has never done me dirty so I highly recommend I am sitting in front of a
window so you guys can hear the birds chirping and the leaves blowing in the
wind so if you hear cars excuse that I'm going to try to talk loud enough so the
cars aren't a big disturbance but we're just going to use the natural sounds of
the neighborhood so in the beginning of my art journal I was doing a hundred
days of our journaling and my art just sort of really suffered it was really
not the best spreads or anything so I stopped doing that because I just didn't
really like the way things were turning out and I was burning out really easily
but this was inspired by a picture I found on tumblr and this quote just is
just a pretty generic quote and I sort of liked how this turned out but also
sort of didn't I like this side more than this side not the biggest fan for
this one like I said in the beginning I'm not the biggest fan because I was
doing a hundred days of art journaling I thought of this concept and it was
prettier in my head than it was on paper I wish it turned out differently but you
know it's about working with things and trying to get better at it this is what
I had not a lot of experience with watercolors so I used watercolors and
watercolor pencils for the leaves I
wrote this quote in my notes a long time ago and just used it at the beginning of
this art journal I got these pictures from tumblr and cut them all to the same
size and sort of matched them with the part of the quote that they're about
yeah I think that this one's pretty cute this is one of my favorite spreads that
I've ever made this is after I stopped 100 days of our journaling I'm pretty
sure or just like right before I stopped doing the hundred days it's literally my
favorite quote it says become intimate with your fears listen to them sit
cross-legged give them your undivided attention offer them comfort and offer
them rest and I could have done better on the girl
that I drew I'm not the best at drawing people so I'm still trying to get better
but you can sort of see a little bit of evolution throughout this and the
background I just love doing that kind of background and I love the contrast
between the red and the black this is my favorite spread and I'm pretty sure it's
my followers favorite spread my art journal account is Kaitlyn_journals
if you didn't know I've seen illustrations of green houses like glass
greenhouses everywhere and I sort of just created my own concept for that and
this was based off of the quote and I sort of had the plants growing out of
the greenhouses just to symbolize never let a person stop you from growing as in
like the green house is somebody limiting your growth space people seem
to really like this quote and I do too a lot so I'm really happy with how this
turned out for this spread it's a little more personal it's Instagram versus
reality and sort of the negative comments that you say to yourself versus
what people say to you that are actually true so this Kaitlyn journals I just did
journals because I posted on my journal account but it would actually be my main
Instagram and then Kaitlyn's mind and this is really sloppy but I still like
the concept of it this was during finals and I was so done with it and I just
wanted to leave and this is what that was about
I love this spread it was so easy to make and it was so much fun
apparently this is a quote from a twenty one pilots song I think maybe not okay I
forgot whose quote this is from what song but I saw it on an illustration
online and used it so didn't realize it was from a song at all but fans were
quick to tell me that it was the background is tombow dual tip markers
and this is too - and then this is sort of a Sun and then I thought the background
was a good color combination this is a picture I took like three years ago that
I cut up and just pasted it here cuz I just had this
picture floating around and I had nothing to do with it
and then this is just a really super cute quote I drew this in the spring and
I was really unmotivated and really stressed from finals sitting out in a
field when I drew this these actually blew away in the wind it was really
funny but yeah that's where that came from
this is an old picture from 1935 and I got it at a vintage store and used it to
make this spread the whole spread was inspired by that I tried to find a quote
that fit that and I wrote here what's written on the back of this picture and
I had to like research to translate where this was because I couldn't read
the handwriting very well so I tried so many different combinations of spitzenberg
and I thought maybe it was in a different country but it's actually in
New York I'm pretty sure I drew this one on a nine-hour car ride and that's why
it's a little sloppy but I still like it I think it's really simple and really
cute this spread I sort of liked but then I messed up the center part and I
tried to fix it and now it's just really thick and now I'm not the biggest fan of
it but I do like the quote we can only learn to love by loving I think that is
one of the most true things I've ever heard and I tried to go with a blue and
red type of contrast but I'm not sure how that turned out I do like a hair on
this one though this is the last journal spread I did before I took like a year
off of journaling so from here to the next spread there's almost an entire
year break um I want to run but where could I go I guess I ran away from my
art journal honestly um I just had travel fever this was at the beginning
of summer last summer and I was really just lusting to travel and I ended up
going to California that summer and it was an amazing trip so this is this
year's I've had this picture from a magazine probably like a Teen Vogue
magazine honestly since like probably six years ago I've had this picture and
I had it hanging up in my room because I thought this girl was like the prettiest
I'd ever seen and the pose is cute and the outfit was cute and I didn't know
what to do with this picture because I didn't want to throw it away so I made
it into an art journal and I used a Billie Eilish quote because I'm in love
with Billie Eilish and then used some white gel pen to make the stars and I
sort of made this rough textured edge I really like how that turned out I was
really debating on what to do this can be hard to look at but I really honestly
like it a lot and I think I did a good job on the
hands and then I really wish I didn't write chivalry is dead I was sort of in
a mood that day so that's where that quote came from and then there's red
dots on each fingertip because I thought that that looked really cool this was a
sketch that I started and I was gonna make it into like a watercolor painting
or just make ink sketch but I never finished it I think that's the only
unfinished page in here honestly this was inspired by somebody else's journal
the background was and then I found a quote from Pinterest and Pinterest has
really inspired me lately I've been utilizing it to the best of my ability
for quotes and such I loved in this quote and this idea in the colors and
stuff but I just hate the face that I drew I wish I drew it on something else
and pasted it in so I could have edited it I didn't in it but she's okay
whatever I should have done the eyes closed because I'm not the best of the
eyes and that always gets me but she is a force to be reckoned with apparently
this was in my brain dump notebook and I transferred it to mini size in my art
journal so this just went came to my head one day and I was thinking about
mindfulness and I wrote my fullness reminder put yourself back into your
body because that's sort of the key to mindfulness is being in your body and
just realizing your surroundings and how you feel and mindfulness is just really
important I really like this spread I have an art journal video for this like
an hour with me this is some of my favorite
songs from my chill the fuck out girlie playlist on Spotify I'll link that down
below for you guys if you want to listen to it I listened to it when I was making
this art journal as well so it's just a really really dope playlist I really
like it this is a crumbled up piece of paper that's like a list and then I just
drew that cassette tape really sloppily um this is the same girl that this was
this was the first one I did and I tried to redraw it here and forgot to do the
eyes closed but I liked this one a lot better and this quote was on the same
page but I cut it all out from my brain dump notebook she looked better before I
inked her in but you couldn't really see her so I had to but it says don't set
yourself on fire to keep others warm and I think that is so true and it really
resonated with me and the background is grid paper from another one of my
moleskine notebooks I love this spread but I don't like the execution as much I
really want to redo it because I think that it could be really awesome but it
says if you don't go after what you want you'll never have it and these are some
really basic mountains and then these are colored pencils and I just love how
that turned out the color is so rich I
like this spread a lot it's sort of like a space-themed and it says ever feel
like a black hole and then I drew this little girl in the corner and I colored
it in after because I didn't really want it to just be a blank page and black
hole sort of resonates with space so that's how I decided to fill in and fill
it in with black I just wanted to make a journal this day and really just did it
quick and needed to get rid of some stickers I think the quote is funny yes
as a matter of fact I do personify my plants got a problem with that
I don't like this spread but it was fun to think about and sort of fun to make I
didn't really like it from the beginning this is a quote from plaintiff all souls
Instagram and it says plot twist your dreams are chasing you but you keep
running away from them and this really resonated with me this
sort of told me like I wanted to try I want to travel so bad and I just was
never getting out and doing it so I bought a plane ticket like a couple
weeks after this to visit my friend in Missouri and it was so much fun and I
think everyone can learn a lesson from a quote like this you really you're not
gonna get what you really really want in life if you don't put it out there that
you want it and go after that oh I forgot about this spread being my
favorite now but this is my new favorite spread and I think it's your guys's new
favorite spread to this background I actually didn't make people thought I
made this background but it's actually from a notebook therapy like sort of
construction tea paper notebook I cut out that paper and put it in the
background and then I drew the stars on top of it with white ink and then I
painted this with watercolor and use the white ink on this as well it's sort of a
galaxy within a moon some people thought it was a pizza some people thought it
was a pancake but no it's a moon so just keep your eyes on the Stars and your
feet on the ground and this quote actually didn't have any credit to it
but I think it was actually Theodore Roosevelt who said this and I had no
clue when I made this so I didn't put a credit thing on it but apparently it's
from Theodore Roosevelt I looked it up so I drew this girl a really long time
ago like probably two years ago and finally just water colored her in and it
says the trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you
happy it doesn't matter how others see you and this is another quote from
pinterest without credit again i up close i really like her and the details
and the hands and the elbows and the shirt but i could have done better on
the hair i really don't know how to watercolor hair yet and i really
honestly didn't want to spend the time on it that day so this was also inspired
by my brain dump notebook I had this piece of paper and this piece of paper
in the corner cut out and they were just pencil and I inked them in and colored
it in with a fabric estelle bold marker and to complete that I did more on this
paper after I glued these on and wrote sweet like honey I sort of wish I didn't
write sweet like honey because I didn't really
liking how that turned out but I do like the bees and the honeycombs that are
sort of 3d I think that's really cool this I made in like 30 minutes
on a day that I really just wanted to get some summer vibes and just needed to
do something before I left the house so this is how consumes my time that day
and these are pictures printed from tumblr like two years ago and it's a
summer sunshine and good times I should have written good vibes honestly but I
started like how this turned out even though it took really quick so the
process with this one was I drew this girl on procreate on my phone and that
was the first time I had used procreate to draw a person or like the second time
and I really liked how she turned out so I had to transfer it to a different
sheet of paper but then I was like I don't know what I'm gonna do for this
spread so I just copied that again reversed and cut them out in circles and
colored it in red in the background and then this quote just came to my head I
don't know if it's a real quote but I just thought that she was facing herself
so I could say and all of a sudden I was at war within my own mind and I was
thinking about connecting their heads somehow would like some wavy things but
I just liked how simple this was so I left it this actually isn't on my
Instagram because I drew it at like 3 a.m. one day I think it's cute it's a
cute concept I just don't want it on my art journal Instagram so this is where
it's staying next is this it reminds me a lot of this one this is another girl
that I drew um procreate and transferred and I just did not like the style of it
it doesn't feel like my style and I was having a mid journal crisis at least I
got the eyes pretty accurate one of them's too big but you know I suck at
drawing eyes so I'm happy about the eyes at least so this oak was basically
coming from the fact that I was just sort of fed up with not being able to
draw people and just the spread in general this I really like I was water
coloring just for fun and sort of put these cacti in a jar this
was inspired by the tapestry I have in my room and I just my favorite thing is
watercolor paint swatches so I cut that page in here too because I just love
them so much I have a better white ink pen now and I sort of wish I had it when
I did this but and I sort of wish I added some more dimension to the jar but
you live and you learn this is what I thought it is that some of the best days
of our lives haven't happened yet I had a typo in this but I still really
like this spread and a lot of people liked it too nobody really Minds the
typos if you call yourself out this was the first one I did for this and I
didn't like how it turned out I did like the cute little vintage picture but I
just didn't like how this would turn out at all so I went back and did it like
this we're getting to the end of the notebook this page stick together this
is another one of my favorites this is be patient with yourself nothing in
nature blooms all year and I got this idea from Pinterest definitely it was a
this quote on a picture like this so when I saw this picture I immediately
thought of the one I'm Pinterest and then this girl was also drawn while
using a girl I'm Pinterest for reference and I just think that she turned out
really pretty it's really simple I could have done more with her but I didn't
want to mess it up so I just kept it like that
chill out life is good some people read this chill life out is good and I just
thought that was really funny I just really liked the colors for this it's my
new fabrica style bold colored markers and I really liked how this turned out
the colors just really went well together and I probably would have taken
out the green if I redid it but I liked how it turned out either way and the way
to do this is you basically write the black letters and then pick a focal
point and have all the lines meet at the focal point it gets a little muddled
down here but that's try your best and then this is the last page I was
listening to the song peaches by in the valley below and that
is one of my all-time favorite I could die songs like I'm that
song just is my life and so I wrote peaches and tried to make a bubble text
I tried my best I can do that on procreate but I can't do that in real
life and that is the end of the art journal here's the test page that I
always have in the back and a little envelope I don't think has anything in
it so thank you guys so so much for watching my art journal Instagram is
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