The First Week

So it's almost been a full week with my "Wreck This Journal" book. I have done a couple pages which I will show you on this blog. I noticed with this book though I get some really good ideas for pages but end up not doing them because I can't draw worth a crap so the pages are left blank instead.

This page was to create your own page numbers. I wish my numbers would have turned out better but I like this page for how it turned out anyway. The page numbers I decided to use for the whole book are just all in black Sharpie, nothing special to them. This page didn't take me very long to do it was quite simple.






This Scratch Using a Sharp Object page wasn't that hard but it was sort of difficult because of the utensil I was using. I used a small push pin that goes on a cork board to create my scratches. I decided to go with a quote "Live, Laugh, Love!" The cloud around the instructions on the pages took quite some time to do. I have to say this page turned out really well but my finger was purple after doing this page.

This was the first page I ended up doing out of the whole book I think. I found the nearest paper to me and realized it was from the current day so I couldn't use a section that was important. So I went to the classifieds and took the horiscopes and the pet page. The problem I ended up having was when I went to glue this page my glue must have been too old because it was like water all over the newspaper.

This page was super easy but fun to do. I don't know why I waited to do this page but I guess I just did.

This page took the most time I think because of coming up with four letter words. I ended up coming up with quite a few of them and I wanted to fill the page. My original idea was to just write the words out and not draw anything, but I think it turned out cool with the drawings. I liked how this turned out but I wish I could have drew some other things like a dinosour by the rawr. This was the most recent page I have done I haven't done another one since that.



This page was probably one of the pages that took the most time. I had a compeletely different idea for this page but this is what I came up with. What I wanted for this page was to have zebra print lines running onto both pages but instead I took the easier route and did diagnal lines and swervy lines. The coloring took forever on these pages and went through a lot of sharpening on those dang colored pencils. I like how the colors ended up turning out though.

Alright well thats all I have done for now. The next time I do a post about these I'm going to try to figure out a different way to show the pictures and explain about them since this didn't turn out very well. Not sure how many pages I will get done this upcoming week since I have to work quite a bit.