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Everything you need to start and embellish your bullet journal! From doodles and drawings to lettering and calligraphy details.

Drawing super simple and easy doodles is the perfect way to get you started with bullet journaling, or just expand your drawing skills so you can add more illustrations to your lettering and calligraphy work! So I am sharing more than 100+ easy things to draw to get you started in the doodle world! There …

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What is a Calligraphy pen, and what should you consider when looking for a brush pen to practice or lean brush calligraphy. Additionally, learn which ones are the best for beginners and get a free 10-page worksheet of the basic strokes at the end of the post! The wide variety of brush pens or Calligraphy …

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Getting drawing ideas for your new notebook, or getting a doodle idea for your lettering pieces is no easy task. So to help you out, I compiled some super cute drawing ideas and added step-by-step instructions for most of them, this way you can start drawing and embellishing as soon as possible! In this post …

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Using paper (a notebook for designers) to keep track of your thoughts, ideas and musings is one of the best analog ways to stay organized and to let your creativity flow, but what makes a notebook good for you? And what are the best ones depending on what your needs are? We will cover that …

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Check the 3 different drawings of roses and the easy step-by-step instructions on how to draw each one of the rose styles to spice up your lettering, calligraphy pieces, or bullet journal spreads. In this beginner tutorial, we will go over how to create three different ways to draw a rose following detailed steps on …

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Finding easy flower inspiration and flower drawing instructions online is not easy, but thankfully for all of us, Korean illustrator Kate Kyehyun Park also known as @urbankate_in_ca on Instagram is not only sharing step by step images but also graciously shares how she paints her beautiful botanical drawings in watercolor. So today I have compiled …

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Learn how to draw leaves step by step in this tutorial where we will go from super simple and easy, to drawing specific leaves by name. We will cover the basics and parts of a leaf and go into step-by-step doodles from imagination to using a real leaf found in nature as a reference for …

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Who can forget this classic scene from the movie, “Clueless”? Tai proudly shows Travis her doodles of Marvin the Martian (and if you look carefully, there’s a Schwarzenegger-like torso on the pages too), and Travis asks Tai to do one of her “nice representations” on his skateboard, before saying, “Are you sure you didn’t trace …

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Selecting calligraphy paper when you are a beginner can seem like such a silly thing to go over in a full post because, after all, paper is paper, right? Well, Not really. Selecting the right paper for practice can not only affect the speed of your progress, but it can also help you prolong the …

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Writing in a journal is so far away from tapping tiny letters into the Notebook app on your smart device there are no words to describe the difference, but I’ll try anyway. Organic versus inorganic. Interactive versus inactive. Skill, thought, hopes, and dreams versus a random selection of binary code stored in something that can …

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Wondering what a Bullet Journal is? How do I even start? Continue reading this guide to get started in the best possible way! I had wanted to dip my toes into the very inviting waters surrounding Bullet Journals for a long time now. I know in the art community there seems to be a polarizing …

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