Hi, Lifestyle Community! It's the first day of the year, so let me greet you Bonne Année 2024 or Happy New Year in 2024! Right now, I am excited to share with you my journal update. One of my goals this year is to be more creative. The second goal is to be more organized, hence, I am having this journal to help me to be more creative and organized just writing everything in a notebook.
I promised myself to learn how to draw. I mean, I have a history of drawing and I shared my old anime drawings in the past. Right now, I want to learn how to draw flowers.
For a fresh start for this year, I want to create the New Year Cover for 2024.
New Year 2024 Cover
Instead of writing in English, I wrote it in French which is Bonne Année 2024. I had no idea what this cover would look like. Anyway, I sketched it first with a pencil.
Then, I followed sketching with different flowers using a black pen.
I continued to outline the lettering and flowers with a black pen. After the outline, I have to erase the pencil sketches.
It looks neat after erasing the pencil traces. I started coloring the flowers and I loved it. I just wanted to make it minimal with just two groups of flowers on the lower left and the lower right. I have no plans to add more flowers.
It's time to color the lettering. I have no idea which colors to use so I decided to make it French-themed color. The color of the France flag with blue, white, and red.
Here is the close-up look of the lower left flowers.
The close-up look of the lower right flowers.
Here is the final output. I love it very much. It's very simple and minimalist.
January Monthly Cover
January is Janvier in French. I decided to draw the Janvier title vertically because I had no idea which lettering should I use. Anyway, I decided to use this lettering I learned when I was in high school. I sketched it with a pencil.
I used a black pen to outline the lettering.
I colored it with gray and left some white space on the lettering.
I erased the pencil traces, now it looks neat.
I created flower borders around Janvier using a pencil.
Use a black pen to outline the flowers and leaves.
I erased the pencil traces, looking so neat.
It's time to color the flowers with blue, purple, and pink.
Colored the leaves, this part is finished.
In the upper part of the notebook, I colored the flowers with red and orange.
A close-up look at the flowers.
Here is the final output of the January monthly cover.
Oh, wow! I love flipping these two pages. I am excited to create a January Monthly Layout for the next blog.
I hope you enjoyed my creative journal as much as I did.
FYI, I don't have stickers as I don't have money to buy many stickers and washi tapes. I am trying my best to doodle and use all my color materials to pop up my design with colors.
9th HPUD in January 2024
I am just being consistent in joining the Hive Power Up for at least 10 HP so here it is.
Also, I am excited about February at the end of the month because it will be my First Hive Anniversary. Yahoo!
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