Hi guys welcome back for our June plan with me we are doing a beautiful
lavender inspired cover page a monthly calendar page as well as a garden herbs
doodle that's just perfect for your bullet journal so let's get started
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month okay so I'm gonna start with the June cover page here you can see I'm
right at the end of my journal so I'm just clipping the pages in place to keep
them out of my way and lavender theme is per a request and that's just something
I want to mention if you guys have something you want to see in the next
video or the next bullet journaling tutorial be sure to mention it so I've
just drawn a little square in the middle of the page here it's centered in the
horizontal access but not in the vertical and I am just going to fill in
this rectangle actually not a square that I've drawn with a bit of warm grey
marker it's like what color should I do ooh how about grey I just love grey and
I think if you have colors that you're really drawn to don't be afraid to sort
of you know go there again and again it's nice for you to have somewhere
you're comfortable and also to develop a style so you can see here I've got this
rectangle that I'm just filling in with a wash of color and all I want is it for
it to look like this very flat color block and it's about seven squares in on
each side and then it's sort of a little lower than it is higher and yeah so I'm
just trying to keep it even and I just want this nice simple block of color
that I can do an illustration against I want to make sure that's dry and then
I'm ready to go over it in pen but another option is to make this color
block or color wash using a bit of paper and you can rip it by using a ruler
better to do it on a hard surface I'm doing it on top of my journal which
isn't perfect but that's fine it's not supposed to be perfectly square and you
can see I'm just gonna paste it in I just used a glue stick and it's nice and
flat and then I'm gonna do the illustration on top of that color wash
so whichever way you want to do it marker or paper we're gonna put our
illustration on top of this nice block of color I've got a title across the top
and then I'm going to start sketching out some lavender
sprigs with pencil but I'm gonna go over them in pen so that you can really see
what I'm doing and we can talk about how to illustrate lavender now you can use
any artists pen the pen that I am using today is the graphic line marker from
Derwent in the O 3 nib 0.03 and it's just a new pen that I received and I'm a
sucker for a new pen I'm always like oh my god this is the best pen ever so I'm
really into this pen right now and to do the lavender they're really simple to
illustrate you just start with a line and don't try to make it straight the
more wibbly-wobbly curved or weird it is the better and you're just doing these
little hearts one heart at the top of the line and then pairs of hearts on
each side of the line going down so you can see I'm drawing the line heart at the
top and then two little hearts all the way down so one heart on one side and
then its pair on the other and you can get very wonky and playful with
this they can be really close together you can spread out those little
heart-shaped petals you could make them more just regular little ovals for
petals you can really play around you have a lot of freedom with lavender if
you do a straight line like this and then some kind of petal it's going to
look like lavender it's all about keeping it vertical and especially if
you did a little lavender purple wash in behind there or colored them in a
teensy bit with pencil crayon or something okay and then the last thing
I'm doing here is adding these little hearts sort of all over the place and
that's to make it look like maybe a breeze came along and blew the lavender
or maybe it's nighttime and there's all these little insects buzzing around
it's summery it adds some movement it just helps the piece come to life and
I'm gonna finish our cover page by adding the title right at the top of
that color wash whether it's paper or marker you're gonna put the title June
sort of just overlapping a little bit and it makes the piece quite interactive
you have this nice block of color that's just there to add a bit of interest to
add sort of a border to the flower illustration and by dropping that J down
on to the color it just makes it it it sort of live-ins up your piece it adds
interest and you can see I've done a cursive font or cursive lettering style
and then I'm thickening each downstroke to create that focal if you look that I
love so much and that is with the title page or the monthly cover page looks
like when it's all done I'm super happy with that and then as usual I want to do
a calendar on the right because I'm at the end of my book I'm just tucking a
sketchbook underneath to help me have a more flat working surface or drawing
surface and then I'm drawing a grid here to make a calendar and I've done the
grid the squares of the calendar are three long by two wide so they're a
little longer than they are wide and I'm just you know pulling the pen towards my
body to help me keep my lines straight but they don't have to be perfect but by
pulling that pen or moving it towards you that'll help you keep it steady now
you can see here I've made a few mistakes of this wonky line in the
middle it's like what am I doing with my life
and then at the bottom I really messed up so I just did a double line and
filled it in and you know there's always I just wanted to show you that because
there's always a way to fix your mistakes even when you're working in pen
A) probably no one's even gonna notice it doesn't matter or B) like I did with the
bottom line you know it's just so fixable by doubling up that line and
coloring it in looks like you meant to put that there and you can cover up the
fact that maybe the bottom of the calendar wasn't so straight you can see
I've put the numbers in the upper right hand corner and I've got this really
simple calendar and then what I want to do here is just draw like this drape
these draping sprigs of lavender underneath the calendar and it's just
another way to represent the flower I wanted to show at least two different
ways to draw lavender so I'm gonna get a little closer up here and you can see
you can sketch the lines out in pencil so that you sort of know where you want
your lavender to go and then on the end of each line you're doing those little
pairs of leaves or petals actually and I'm not doing heart shapes this time I'm
doing ovals so it's just one more way that you can draw and I think it looks
equally nice and equally sort of represents lavender it looks like
lavender equally as much as doing the heart-shaped petals and maybe this one's
just a little more sophisticated so there's what my monthly cover page and
calendar page looks like it's a nice simple minimal spread with lots of
negative space and I am going to enjoy that this June and I can't believe it's
June right okay so next thing I want to do is a little herbal doodle that I
thought would be fun because lavenders and
herbs so our theme is herbs so you can see I've got my sketch book underneath
there again and I've got my pencil and I'm just drawing a grid trying to make
sure it's centered but I'm not fussing about it too much I'm drawing a three by
three grid of nine squares that I'll eventually erase but I just want it
there to make sure that when I draw my herbs they're all equally spaced and
centered so let's draw some herbs together the first one we're going to do
is rosemary you start with just a few lines you might want to do those in
pencil and then you make one leaf at the top a very thin skinny leaf and then
pairs of leaves all the way down the stem very keep them very close together
very tight and rosemary is really fun and simple to draw so again just one
leaf at the top pairs of thin skinny leaves all the way down that stem and
then what I'm gonna do for my illustration here is just label all of
them centered directly below so eventually I'm gonna have this nice
simple grid of nine different herbs okay next one is sage another simple one
you're gonna do these big floppy leaves and nice to start in pencil and then you
can see here I've got these big oval leaves a little bit of a point at the
end not too pointy and then that simple line thin stem and that one is sage and
we'll label that and the next one I want to draw is lavender we're getting pretty
familiar with it by now you can again start in pencil so that you know you've
got those lines in the right spot but you're just gonna start with two or
three or four lines and then again we draw those pairs of petals all the way
down and you can do the heart-shaped pairs or just the pairs of petals that
are like little ovals and that's what I'm doing here label it lavender and
we've got our first three super simple the next one is mint I do like to start
this one in pencil because I'm sort of drawing a top down mint because it grows
like this flower where all the petals sort of emerge from one another so start
with three tiny tiny pedals and then three more that get a
little bit bigger and they all have a lot of veining on them this is sort of
like a spearmint or peppermint they're also sort of shaggy leaves with a with
teeth around the edges and then you're gonna do another three or four coming
out from those second three so you can see how this kind of comes together it's
very much like a flower that's opening up or its petals are opening so that's
my spearmint or peppermint and I'm just gonna label it mint okay for the next
one we're going to do oregano so this one is just these round leaves on curved
stems so just draw a curved line and then these really round leaves and the
curved line could be sort of bouncing all over the place
oregano has a lot of movement it's this sort of curly crazy plant I have one on
my windowsill so a very cute little plant and I'm just coloring some of the
leaves in to give it a little more visual interest so just adding lines and
a little bit of shading can really bring these little illustrations or little
doodles to life now for our basil I'm just drawing this stem in the middle and
then pairs of leaves getting larger and you can see starting with two got my
stem another two they get larger and then these ones at the forefront are
bigger still and they have a little bit of veining on them too so I'll do some
nice lines and that is my basil plant there are a lot of different ways you
could draw a basil and you could also add in little more leaves there at the
top if you feel like you're lacking something
okay so let's label the basil and then moving on we're already down to our
seventh herb I'm gonna do dill here and for the dill I'm doing again a curved
line with all these little lines coming off of it and then at the end of each
one of those lines you're doing a little burst of lines coming out like five
fingers and then at the end of those little finger lines you're doing these
little dots and circles and this is more like a dill flower or a dill that's gone
to seed it's just sort of a fun pretty way to represent it and again something
I'm thinking about when I'm doing these illustrations is if
is really detailed like the oregano or the rosemary those ones I'm sort of
interspersing with ones that are larger and simpler like the mint and the sage
and in that way I create a cohesive piece so here I'm doing some chives
really simple these are basically just lines and then the chives flower is that
big shaggy purple thing so I'm doing one chive flower on one of the chives other
than that pretty much just lines and I'll label that chives and then for the
very last one I'm gonna do some time so you can see the rosemary the oregano the
time they go in a diagonal row they're not sort of placed all in sequence
horizontally or vertically so by moving them around on the grid again just
creates a nice cohesive well-designed piece and for the time I'm starting with
this sort of burst of four lines that all begins in at one point and then just
these tiny little pairs of leaves not quite as long as the rosemary leaves a
little shorter but still quite close together and yeah that's the time I'll
label that and that completes my little herbs of the garden doodle all I have to
do now is erase that grid that I initially laid down so that no one knows
that it was ever there and it'll just be super centered and I'm gonna put a
little title garden herbs in capital print really simple print and then just
do a little flag around it to give it a nice whimsical gardeny picnicky feel
and I'm just doing that in pencil and then I'll go over it in my pen which you
can see me doing there and that's all there is to it you guys will be able to
print this out on my patreon but of course I think we've walked through
every herb so I hope you feel like you can achieve these doodles in your own
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