Hi guys welcome back in today's tutorial we're gonna do some bullet journaling
with brush pens now brush pens are especially good for journaling because
they are great for hand lettering as well as illustrating
so let's get started
Hey guys my name is Shayda Campbell and on this channel I do art tutorials so if
that's your thing consider subscribing alright so we're gonna kick things off
here I'm doing a weekly spread a one-page weekly spread and I just want
to get it started with a little bit of ripped paper and washi tape it's a great
way to add some color to add some definition and just sort of space out
your page so you can see me just putting a little bit of tape and then I'm also
adding a little tiny calendar of the month that way I can just concentrate on
this one page and I don't have to constantly flip back if I kind of want
to see where I'm at in the month or what I might be able to do for next week so
there's my page I'll be using some pigma microns from Sakura some of the smaller
nibs like the 005 in the 003 I've also got a grey truplus fine liner and a
white gel pen and those are just great all-purpose tools when it comes to
journaling and I've picked out a few different washi tapes I'm sure you can
see color scheme emerging here and finally I have five brush pens and these
are from a company called Arteza who makes art supplies and you can see
here I've picked out a color palette so of course surprise I'm going with blues
and grays when I take the lid off you can see that brush pen has a very fine
pointed nib and we'll talk about that in a second but here I've just done a test
pad and I'm trying out different colors so I'm making sure that those blues and
grays look good together so I've chosen my color palette now I want to practice
with my brush pens and you can see what that fine nib can really do when you
press harder on it you get that nice thick down stroke so when you pull the
pen towards your body you get that thicker stroke and then when you just go
light and delicate with your pressure you get that very thin delicate upstroke
now brush lettering is a whole topic and we haven't gone into it ever I don't
think in-depth on the channel but there are a lot of great resources out there
online and on Instagram and it's just one of those things that I just suggest
practicing but also you need a good set of brush pens for a long time I didn't
think I was any good at brush lettering and then I got these these pens actually
and they were really good they just have a really good nib anyways I digress you
can see here what I've done is I did my lettering in a light gray and then I
went back in with the darker gray and I just did the very tops of the letters
and then I went back in and I'm gonna do this all over again
I went back in with the pigma micron the very fine nib and I just put a little
shadow on that lettering so there I've done the brush lettering in the light
gray now you can see me using that very fine nib on the darker gray brush pen to
just add a little bit of contrast and color to the tops of the letters and
then I'm using the smallest nib from the Sakura set to add a bit of shadow on the
right hand side of each letter here you can see me just adding some contrast and
definition to my calendar using the brush pen and like I said in the intro
they're so versatile and it's really because of that fine tip it's almost
like you have a paintbrush that you can use in your journal and it allows you to
draw and almost paint with that brush and you can add all kinds of definition
and shading to your letters you really want to treat it like it's this round
little paintbrush and you can use the very fine point or you can turn it on
its side and get to these larger Messier washes of color so play around and
you'll be amazed at what you can achieve with these brush pens now what I'm doing
is I'm just going back in with my pigma micron and adding some of the sort of my
to-do list for the week and of course on my to-do list
I have shoot today's video which is this video
it's also so meta it's all happening right now so what I'm gonna do here is
I'm just gonna draw a little camera since I'm gonna be filming and shooting
all day on Monday and I think that's sort of what is fun about creating these
weekly layouts is that you get to let go and create and doodle so have fun if
you're putting I'm going out for sushi you could draw some sushi and it helps
create definition on the page you know dividing space create space so it'll
help keep the page looking organized and it's also just fun to doodle and I'm
doodling up some cute flowers and leaves and again I can use the point of the
brush to do these very very detailed leaf designs and twigs and berries right
there and then if I want to do a flower I can use more of the body of this brush
to lay down some color for a flower and then of course I come back in with my
pigma micron and I just you know add that definition and shadow and do a
little bit of line shading so by using those two tools together you can create
some really tiny beautiful illustrations and doodles for your BuJo so here I'm
just sort of creating a little border to go around that calendar as you can see
I've done a line border just a simple line hand-drawn line but then I've also
you know put some nice florals in the corner so just creating space by
dividing space and using the doodles to help divide up the space again you can
see I'm using the very tip of that brush pen to add some beautiful definition to
those flowers and then using my artist pen to add even more line shading and
detail and I keep going in with the brush pens and adding a little more
color so just adding some gray to those numbers and dates and then I keep
continue to add flowers and just sort of looking around the page where could I
use another floral design where do I need to divide up the space a little bit
and I'm sticking with in my color palette and as I showed at the beginning
you know I tested out my five colors at the beginning on a scrap piece of paper
so I don't have to think about it very much I've just got the Pens that I want
to use at my side now what I'm doing here is I'm going back in and I'm adding
some flowers over top of the ripped paper and this way it almost begins to
look like you've put a sticker on the page because it goes over top of the rip
paper as well as the initial page and then I'm adding some you know magazine
step that I just ripped out of a magazine if you find a cool photo of the
beach or flowers or whatever inspires you that's another great way to just add
a little oomph and color and design a nice design element to your page and up
here I'm using my white gel pen to just put week of March 12th to 16th so I'm
having that white gel pen is really nice because you're able to as you saw with
the flower at the bottom you're just able to sort of make the things that you
put on top of the ripped paper really pop so if you're using a darker rip
paper the white gel pen is key and you can add some cute little quotes here I'm
just putting think happy thoughts and again you guys can see this is not
perfect I'm just you know writing in a simple cursive and print and it's not
it's not meant to be perfect it's just meant to be one weekly spread you know
there's 52 weeks in a year so you have 52 chances to work out your doodles and
lettering the last thing I'm going to show you here is that I'm just doing a
simple line drawing of a flower and this one I'm doing a little larger and then
I'm gonna use the brush pens behind this drawing to sort of give a watercolor
look so I'm just filling it in making it nice and detailed so putting the dots in
the middle to represent the stamen a little bit of stippling putting lots of
lines shading on the leaves and petals to represent the veining and the leaves
and the and the shadow on the flower and then once I've finished my
sketch for my illustration I'm gonna come back in with my brush pen and I'm
using the gray and instead of just coloring it in I'm sort of adding this
splotchy crazy color I wanted to look like I just put down a little bit of
watercolor and then put the illustration overtop so your brush pens are very
versatile like that they don't need to be used for precision work all the time
that's what my layout looked like when I finished it it's definitely a little
outside of my comfort zone not the minimal clean style that I usually go
for but it is my color palette and my botanicals so I had fun trying something
different with this one I hope you enjoyed the video tutorial let me know
what else you'd like to see when it comes to bullet journaling if you're
interested in the arteza brush pens there is a link in the description and I
will see you Friday with a new tutorial don't forget to subscribe