Happy May! It’s been awhile since I posted here. I was away on a holiday in South Korea and Japan. If you are interested, you can read about my recent travel at elainevitikainen.com where we took the ferry from Busan, South Korea to Fukuoka, Japan. The Cherry Blossom was so beautiful!
When I returned to Helsinki, I got back to finishing up the 300 illustration project. I’m now at drawing 239 so not bad at all. I’m hoping to finalise this project by the end of the summer. Wish me luck! I’m also creating my travel journal from the recent trip. I hope to post it here soon.I’m also in the process of planning my next Skillshare class. Please look forward to it.
Well, just hoping that all is well with you and you keep on creating! And here is a coffee I drew for fun last night!
It’s that time of the year. Spring is just around the corner. The sun is shining and the days are getting longer in this part of the world. It’s also time for my much needed holiday. But before that, I would like to have a 1 year Skillshare membership give-away! This works for current or new member.
Post a project in the Project & Resources section of the class
And leave a review in the Reviews section of the class
Every class project plus a review count as a separate entry. So the more classes you join, the more chances of winning! The winner will be picked using the Wheels of Names spinner on the 1st of June 2024.
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Many thanks and I can’t wait to see you in a class!
Hello there! Happy 1st of March! Seems like the days are going too fast. I hope your February was wonderful and full of creativity.
Yesterday, I published my latest class on creating a Travel Journal on Procreate. Thanks to those you already joined my class from yesterday. You can find the class here.
I hope to see you there and have a creative March!
Lots of changes and things eventually die. Bury them, mourn and let go.
It’s easy to think in retrospective (I could have this! I could have done that!) than to think that it was the best there was in that certain place and time.
Keep on learning. Keep on improving.
Find yourself and belief in what you do.
Grateful for having gone this far and thankful to those who journeyed with me.
Hello there! Happy February! I hope you are doing well and starting the month creatively.
I’ve now published my latest (and final) sticker class on Skillshare – Let’s Make Stickers on Cricut Joy and Procreate. Please have a check here.
If you have read my post before, I wrote about the Cricut Design Space being updated. It is now asking to register your machine. So I cannot anymore change my Cricut Joy to Maker to print my stickers. If you have joined my sticker classes on Skillshare, you know this step. So my latest class is a small update to my sticker classes where we learn a new method of creating our stickers so that we can continue to make stickers on Cricut Joy. This doesn’t mean that my previous classes are outdated. I’m just adding a simple step to the process. Please check it out. Thanks!
Hello there! Greetings from Helsinki! I hope you are doing well.
I was so disappointed to know that the hack I used to make stickers on Cricut Joy is not working anymore. I can’t anymore change to Maker to print and cut because the Updated Cricut Design Space is asking to register a Maker. However, I was able to find a new hack and it’s all about being able to print in another way. I’ve uploading my sticker file on Photoshop, printed it from there and it works well. That is the only area that needs updating. I will update my sticker classes as soon as I can to add a new hack that is to set up the stickers on the iPad on an A4 canvas then print it from there. It should not be complicated. Please bear with me as I make the updates and I hope you are not as disappointed as I am.
Have a happy new year! May 2024 brings you a more creative year!
It’s here! My Japan Journal book was just printed into an A5 book. I’ve created the pages on Procreate then sent them to the printer. I’m really happy with the outcome. A Skillshare class about my process is coming soon. Please look forward to it!
How time flies and soon it’s December. It started snowing in Helsinki and it seems like the snow is here to stay. It’s so beautiful and yet so cold!
And so I’ve also started making Procreate Christmas assets that you can download and use in your art. This is my version of a Christmas calendar for you where you open and download an asset each day from the 1st to the 25th of December. You can find them here in the coming days. But the first day is already ready to download. Please use the drop menu to find the assets. If you have trouble downloading them, please let me know. And if you like, please tag me on Instragram at www.instagram.com/ev_visuals/ if you are posting an art with these Christmas assets.
I’ve been seeing this a lot. People struggling to keep up and maintaining a journal for the entire year. I, myself, is not immune to this. I remember a year when I skipped the whole summer. I did not record anything for that summer. It might sound like a disaster but it’s okay. It happens and we can always rise up and try again.
Many say that consistency is the key. I totally agree with this. Journaling should be fresh and habitual. It’s really hard to journal about something that happened a long time ago. This I learned the hard way when I didn’t journal about my travels immediately after the trip because it could easily lose the momentum and you really want to journal when the travel is still fresh in your mind. But to be honest, I can also easily get bored when I do the same thing day after day, week after week, month after month. I want to create something different in my journal. So I try to spice it up a bit with different formats, styles and materials even when maintaining only one journal. Here are some example pages:
As you can see, I try to format my pages in different ways. There are times when I just paste items on the pages, do some practice drawing, use cute stamps or even just plainly write on my pages without any embellishments. Because really, there is no one way to create a journal! I think the most important thing is to be able to journal in a way that makes you happy and gives you the joy in journaling. I also have a digital journal which is a monthly one that I print out as a book by the end of the year. You can check out classes on Skillshare on digital journaling here and here. I also have travel journals and I journal in a form of a blog. Please check out a class on travel journaling here.
What are your thought on this? Do you also struggle to keep up a journal? What are your experiences and suggestions to keep journaling? Please let me know!
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