Illustrated Travel Journal 101: make a compelling visual storytelling! Here's the step-by-step process I followed to create my travel journal of Edinburgh (watercolour and scrapbooking) on Traveler's Notebook journal refill!
From planning the visual storytelling to sketching and colouring illustrations, to incorporating photos and mementos... Many creative ideas, tips and hacks for all skill levels, to help you create an illustrated travel journal to flipthrough over and over! :)
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Video chapters:
00:00 Intro: how to create an illustrated travel journal
00:38 What to collect to document your travels
01:17 Traveler's Notebook refill for watercolour
01:41 How to plan a travel journal storytelling
03:05 Structuring the layout of your journal pages
04:14 How to make small photos for journaling with Canva
05:28 Urban sketching for travel journal
07:16 Colouring illustrations with watercolour and pencils
08:47 How to create a door on your journal
10:32 Creative ideas to include photos in your journal
13:02 Writing on a travel journal
13:56 Edinburgh Travel Journal Flipthrough!
Materials and brands used:
JOURNAL: Traveler's Notebook no. 27 Refill [Watercolour]
FINELINERS: Pigma Micron by Sakura
WATERCOLOUR SET: Daler-Rowney Aquafine
COLOURING PENCILS: Winsor & Newton Watercolour Pencils
GEL PENS: Uniball Signo
WRITING PEN: Muji
Additional video clips by Canva.
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