artJOURNALING daily: idea journals

today for artJOURNALING daily I'm taking a little departure from my coloful and brightly painted pages to give you a little PEEK inside my idea journals. these idea books are another form of my art journaling but I use them for project, trend and idea brainstorms. I love the simplicity of the black and white line with little bursts of color.

I write with a black permanent pen like Copic Multiliners or Sakura Sansei, jotting down whatever comes to mind without hesitation. I want to dump all my thoughts onto the pages without judging. I brainstorm business ideas & strategies, markets to research and to do lists.

I keep these pages very simple because most times I am working fast drawing thumbnails sketches, listing words in adjective banks and ideas for mixed media techniques I'd like to explore.

I incoporate doodles. there is no plan when I write and draw on these pages.

when I am thinking of a new design project, I work out my ideas with thumbnail sketches, something I learned to do in design school. these are minitures sketches intertwined with my notes.

I use a few different types of papers..usually white Strathmore Windpower journals, moleskine books with graph paper and sometimes I make my own idea journals using white cardstock.

I love making lists and reminders of ideas and techniques...many of my pages are full of long idea lists.

many of my one-of-a-kind fashion creations start within the pages of these idea books. I draw figures and take notes for design concepts, materials to collect and themes to research.

Get out those idea books and start listing ideas for your projects, marketing and design! get those ideas in your head down on paper. REMEMBER have fun with these pages...write whatever comes to mind, no matter how far fetched it may sound. These books will come in handy as references for your creative projects.

turn those ideas into reality...xo~treiC

Comments

[Johoanna]

I love your working journals. I use an ordinary spiral bound sketchbook and I use a mechanical pencil usually. I make a lot of bags and pouches and so spend time in my journals working out measurements, etc. Lots of fun.

[Tracie Hanson]

I adore these pages...there's something so appealing to me about seeing brainstorming/mind maps, etc. I think it's the free flow of ideas and potential that really inspires me. Juicy! Thanks for sharing!

[ToLiveInspired]

how great is this timing? Love your idea journals! I just wrote down today to start an idea journal as I have ideas often, that I just write down in random places or in my journals but I don't have one that is just for ideas and the working out of them.. So the inspo and timing was perfect! Thanks!

[clara]

Thanks for showing us your idea journal pages. I love your writing and sketches. I like to write and brainstorm too, but I feel so disorganized about it because I have too many journals/books that I write in.

[marilyn bridger]

thank you for sharing your inspiring ideas.