Drawing by hand is a great way to record your thoughts and ideas. Rather than the typical cliche^ of writing them down, drawing can give more depth and illustrate a unique side of your ideas (being more free). Collaborating drawn ideas can create a 'URIKA' moment. Most ideas come through drawing as it gives a visual understanding . Drawing defines problems and this can be distributed as problem solving, which helps you nurture your ideas. How people distribute these thoughts and ideas are placed in a journal-like book. Ideas are portrayed with various tones of colours, materials, styles, inks etc to express research or experiments from ideas illustrated . The technique of drawing, rather than using a computer, is more praticical for recording your ideas immediately.  Computers can delay and restrict ideas as you cannot be completely creative with your recordings. Free-hand drawing can open your way of thinking and you can be more creative, ideas and thoughts are automaticaly drawn down and you can be as creative with them as much as you wish. The sky's the limit!


Artist Jeanne Minnix -book "Artists journals and
sketchbooks, exploring and creating personal pages"
-Lynee Perrella- page 21


This piece of work is a great example of recording ideas by using illustrations and samples of materials. In this journal the artist is expressing her ideas by using a mixture of colours which helps the artist to expresses her feelings. Some of the strongest points of the journal are brush strokes and the concept of collage, giving an indication of her ideas. This journal portrays vibrant colours which would indicate a celebration, festival, an adventurous scene of the journal.




Artist Billye Miraglia- book "Artists, journals and
sketchbooks, exploring and creating personal pages"
- Lynne Perrella-page 90



Miraglia's journal conveys a sunset/ sunrise approach, creating a warm, autumn like illusion. The images vissible illustrates plants which helps create the idea of " harvest".  The images of the plants are cut-outs and this demostrates how illustrations in exsisting magazines, photos, etc can help influence us in our designs. This is a great way to collaborate other ideas with your own. The right side of the journal portrays a gothic mediveal illustraion and photography. The images

portray an impression of 'halloween' which together with the 'harvest; theme are around the same period of the year, October/autumn.  This is successfully achieved with the use of the colour orange, reflecting falling leaves and pumpkins. The two pages compliment each other very well, especially with the use of rustic orange water colours, generating a well put together finished look.