Journaling for global explorers

Creative image with stunning colour gradients

Travel brings great experiences, but you can also dream about your next holiday from the comfort of your own sofa and have all sorts of fun with your journal while you’re at it! For this idea, we designed a particularly striking picture of our blue planet before decorating it with hand-lettering and small sketch notes. The Colour Happy Big Box offers a wide choice of colour pens, brush pens and fine liners, making it perfect for all fans of colouring and drawing. You can use the white pastel pen to achieve fantastic shading and stunning colour gradients.

Category: Journaling
Products: Accessories
Fibre and felt pens
Fineliners
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

To decorate the pages, take the edding 1340 brush pens, the edding 1800 profipens and the pastel pen from the Colour Happy Big Box. Choose your favourite colours. You can also use the edding DR20 eraser.

Step 2

Think up a layout for your journal and sketch out all the words and images using the pencil. A combination of large, wide letters and narrowly written lines of text (‘LET’S explore’, for example) is particularly effective. Simply try whatever you like best.

Step 3

The motifs can then be highlighted, framed and accentuated using the fine edding 1800 profipen. You can draw a smiley face on the globe and give it arms and legs.

Step 4

Any pencil lines that are still visible can easily be removed using the eraser.

Step 5

Design the black box underneath the globe as follows: first, draw the box using the black colour pen (e.g. edding 1300) before using the white edding 1500 pastel pen to write “awesome” on the black surface. You can go over the word several times with the pastel pen to achieve the pastel effect you desire.

Step 6

Now it’s time to add some colour: use the edding 1300 colour pen or the edding 1340 brush pen to colour in the motif as the mood takes you. You can also achieve fantastic colour gradients on the coloured areas using the pastel pen, like the light-blue shading on the globe.