FEBRUARY 2ND 2013
This is my WTJ as of 02/02/2013!
It's getting quite thick already and I've pretty much only just started!
Left: Unfinished
Right: I did the drawing and writing (There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same) for the warning page on the day I got it, and I also did the watercolour sunset on what was meant to be the New York skyline. Since I'm terrible at drawing, though, we'll just say it's a generic skyline. Today I added the green watercolour background, and the pen leaked through to the next page which brings us to:
Left: Since the pen leaked through, I printed out this picture of Rapunzel and Flynn/Eugene from Pixar's Tangled, since it's one of my all time favourite films ever made, and glued it over the ruined page. I still need to colour it in, but I can do that another time.
Right: I filled out the page as instructed, using my full first name rather than the nickname of Ash. I don't know what else to do with this page, but I'm definitely not leaving it so blank. I just need to get my creative nerd on and decide what I can do to spruce it up a little!
Left: It took me ages to finish this page, but I got the colouring pencils that I needed and expanded the arrow with a big rainbow outline. I just thought it'd look nice, and I'm pretty happy with the result!
Right: I'll probably watercolour this page and then colour the instructions in black to make them bolder. We'll see, I may think of something better before I get around to actually doing it!
Left: This was the first page I did, but since it was something to be done off of the page, there's nothing to show for it here. I definitely won't be leaving it like this, it's way too clean!
Right: As a big Loki fan, I thought I'd glue a picture of Loki's "I do what I want," onto this page. If I could draw cute cartoons, I'd have drawn him saying it. Unfortunately, my creativeness doesn't quite extend that far, and so I just printed this instead.
I did this one on the day I got the journal. I don't drink coffee, so I made one solely for the purpose of spilling it everywhere, which was really fun! It did go through a lot of pages, but I've managed to work with it so far so it doesn't really matter. To create is to destroy, after all! When it was still coffee-covered, I sprinkled some ground coffee beans over the top, waited for it to dry, and brushed off the excess. I felt it needed something else, so I drew on the little cup yesterday. I may add more in the future, but for now this page is done to me.
This is by far my favourite page so far. I messed up the strings a little (on the left the strings expand out and on the right they're all going in and it's meant to be continuous!) but other than that, I'm very happy with how it turned out. It took me a good two hours to draw the house (from scratch! Me! Yes, this is literally the best thing I've ever drawn freehand...) and colour it in and outline it all, but it was worth it. Pixar's Up is one of my all time favourite films. (I may or may not possibly be a little bit obsessed with Pixar films.)
Unfinished! I put on a load of blue watercolour and then mixed some brown in with it to darken the blue a little. I plan to put some glitter on it and maybe glue on a moon somewhere. I know nothing about astronomy so it won't be accurate, but it'll look nice! Until I get my hands on some glitter, though, it shall remain like this,
Not much to say about this one. I got some colouring pencils and recklessly scribbled to my heart's content.
Unfinished! I love how this page turned out - I used my beloved watercolours to do some kind or rainbow, waited until it was dry and then used a black pen to pattern them. I have yet to rip it up.
It took longer for me to get my stapler to work than it did to finish these three pages - I made the paper airplane, made a funnel and screwed up a page. And then I stapled them all back in because I didn't want to throw them away. I would have decorated them all, but I think them being blank works better. For now, I'm saying this is as good as it's going to get.
I got a little deck of playing cards in a Christmas cracker this year and thought I'd save them in case I needed them for anything like this. What I wanted for this page was a mess of cards on the left and then have them all arranged neatly and in order on the right. Since I didn't have two of the same suit to work with, I mixed up the spades and clubs to make it look more similar.
Between the ages of about 12 to 16, I collected stamps from letters and parcels for reasons I don't even know myself (you know how every school has a weird kid who picks their nose and eats bugs? Yeah, that kid thought I was a freak), and now I've actually put them to good use! Most are from England, since I live there and the majority of my post comes from my own country, but there are some from other places if you look closely!
This page was "Cut through several layers". Since I didn't want to cut through other pages, I interpreted it differently by folding the page twice and cutting triangles out of those layers. Then I stuck some of the cutouts down the middle since it looked a little empty.
This brings us to the end of this post! I hope you like my journal so far, and I'll try to post something that isn't WTJ as soon as I can. I'll also try to get some more pages done for the next WTJ post, though I don't think that will be for a while.
I'll end with a side view of the Journal since it's somehow getting thick already...
-Ash
