#back-and-forth journal

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5 Prompts About Nature

Create a Page on the Theme: By the River Bank

Would you rather go to the beach, or go to the mountains?

Draw a woodland animal

What's your favorite flower?

Do you like to forage? What's your favorite part if you do? Your least favorite, if you don't?

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Andy and I did another theme page, and she picked the theme again lol. To be fair, she picked a pretty cool theme, and one of my favorites.

Dragons!

She did a lot better at sticking to the theme this time, and we had a discussion of elements we could include while on the hunt for supplies. She had a bit of difficulty thinking of some elements we could include, so I reminded her of Smaug in The Hobbit movies(I’ve read the entire book to her, but that was when she was about 4, so she doesn’t remember much of it). We decided definitely treasure needed to be included, a dragon of course, she always wants to include glitter.

I did a bit of a riff off Lord of the Rings, mostly because I had a Fellowship sticker. Andy wanted to use a Chinese dragon wax seal, but I was in no mood to play with fire today, so she picked out one of my last dragon stickers and put some mountain washi tape and a bunch of little gold sequins. The sequins frustrated her a bit because the glue kept getting stuck to the tweezers she was using to place them(because she saw me using them and had to try lol). She had no idea why I picked a burnt edge washi tape, but ended up using some of that too. Her stencil work is getting a lot better. And of course, there is the large bit of glitter she had to have. I panicked a little because she was using a brush to spread the glue and I thought it was one of mine. I made sure she washed it right away because I didn’t want her ruining another brush.

The best part is she had fun. She wanted to do more, but today I spent a good portion of the day cleaning, and I was reaching the end of my ability to be a pleasant person.

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5 Andy Prompts

Create a Page with the theme: Minions

Create a Page with the theme: Dragons

What is love?

Create a Page on Theme: Unicorns

Use This Color: Yellow

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5 Random Prompts

What is one thing you’d like to learn this year?

Create a Page on the Theme: Cozy Cottage

Scribble and find Fish in the shapes

Have you ever tried a hobby you didn’t like doing? What was it?

Do you have a favorite spoon?

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5 Prompts About Fashion

What is your favorite piece of clothing?

Draw your ideal outfit

Create a Page on the Theme: My Most Expensive Outfit

If you could invent a new type of clothing, what would it be?

Do you have a favorite fashion designer? If so, who? If not, why?

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5 Prompts About Art

Who is your favorite artist?

What is your favorite song?

Create a Page on the Theme: Cool Concert

Draw something about a 3D art(pottery, sculpture, found art, etc)

How would you define art?

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5 Deep Prompts

What is one thing you believe to be true about the universe?

Do you believe people are inherently good? Why or why not?

What is one thing you find interesting about the person you’re writing this journal with?

If you could have dinner with one person, alive or dead, who would it be? Why?

Do you believe magic exists? Why or why not? Give an example.

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Some Explanations For Prompts

So instead of explaining some of the prompts in the posts themselves, I’m gonna explain them in a single post for an easy reference.

Create A Page!

This is a junk journaling type page. Use any materials you like to create a page on the prompted theme(or any theme you like really). Materials can include, and are certainly not limited to, paper, washi tape, stickers, paint, lace, string, sprays, paint, and gems.

1-Line Drawing

Without lifting your pencil, pen, brush, etc, try to draw the prompt with just one line.

Gesture Drawing

Take 5-10 seconds to draw the prompt. Try to fill the page with these short drawings. See how many you can do in 60 seconds. Gesture drawings are more about capturing the motion and action of the subjects rather than a detailed drawing. They’re a great warm up and can help with composition and figure drawing(particularly actiony poses).

Hatch Marks

Hatch marks are lines made in a single direction(though I’ll also include cross-hatching in this prompt description, which is more like a grid instead of just single direction lines). Instead of using lines to define your drawing, try focusing on the light and see if you can make a drawing using just hatching or cross-hatching.

Scribble

Literally just scribble on the page. Don’t worry about making any sort of shapes, just let your pen or pencil go wild. Have fun with it. One day, maybe just use straight lines to scribble, another day do some curly lines all over the place. It doesn’t have to be neat, and honestly shouldn’t be. Try to keep it loose, you don’t want to fill so much of the page that so many lines aren’t defined. Once you’ve got a good amount of scribbles, try to find creative ways to find the objects in the prompt. Go ahead and add lines to define the shapes further.

(More to come as I add prompts)