Typesetting of hand-illustrated diary-how to design a good-looking diary

Handbook Notes - Illustration (How to draw cute dividing lines)

A page of handbook usually includes the content of several modules. We can use spaces, simple lines or illustrations to separate them for unified management. Textures and illustrations may be more complicated. In this article, we will start with the simplest dividing line.

The simplest dividing line, the suitable length is not particularly long. The drawing method is simple: draw two wavy lines that are not very wavy, mark a dot or a small heart at the vertex (you can use it freely), and add a small decoration in the middle.

Straight line plus suspension method. Drawing method: Take a straight line as the main body, imagine it as a plane, and hang various materials at the bottom. Common materials: lights, flags, plants.

The characteristic of this type is that it is particularly romantic. The various rolled-edge love icons make you feel like you are walking in the aristocratic garden of Europe in the Middle Ages, watching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet kiss each other.

The drawing method is very simple, just replace all the straight lines in the first part with waves.

How can the European pastoral style be without a light and elegant feather pen, draw!

When you practice to a certain level, you can challenge the above styles, I got one Name: Princess Wall! Isn’t it very romantic? Hahahahaha, I remembered a popular drama a while ago, I forgot the specific name, it was roughly similar to Princess Diary. I bet 100 cents that the heroine in the play must use this style of diary.

This type is more difficult than the first type, but no matter how difficult it is, it is still at the level of an elementary school student's art class. If you roll up your sleeves and dip your hands in ink, we can do it.

Looking at the watermarks in the above pictures, they should be the work of an illustrator from Weibo. I suggest you check it out if you are interested. The paintings are very good.

The irregular composition is based on the landscape, and the shape of the illustration itself is used to divide the account. Master! How to design a good-looking diary

First of all, you need to prepare a good-looking diary. This is the first step and the foundation for writing a diary. It is best to have some simple and uncomplicated illustrations in the diary. You don’t have to have good handwriting to write a diary, but the fonts must at least look beautiful and have your own style. If your own handwriting doesn’t look good, you can choose cartoon fonts. When writing a diary, you don't need to follow the traditional diary format. You can separate the weather in the diary, for example, add today's date at the end, etc. For typesetting, we only need to divide the written content into paragraphs. A paragraph can be just one sentence. When writing a diary, you might as well add some small illustrations next to certain words, which can be an expression or an expression. Objects, but don’t add too much, just appropriate. , it can also be a paragraph, or just a word.

Hope to adopt the tutorial | Monthly bujo layout suitable for novices, plenty of inspiration materials to feed you

Hello everyone, I am Ye Xiaohui who has just started bujo^.^

It turns out that there is some stereotype about bujo, which is "minimalist, cold, without any decoration", which does not seem to be attractive to me, a notebooker who loves to graffiti and draw.

Until I saw such a stunning bujo typography design on Instagram:

Even a black pen can make a vibrant bujo:

After careful study, I started my first bujo attempt. Friends who like this style should also do it with me.

Before we start drawing, we need to conceive a theme in our minds and set a design tone for the monthly bujo.

For example, is it watercolor style, line style, or collage style? On this basis, prepare hand-painted tools; further, what to draw or collage? June reminded me of lush plants. What I have in mind is a green bujo, with green as the main color.

You can also choose a planet theme, with the main color being yellow:

At the same time, I also found the green plant-themed bujo as a reference:

Next, Prepare tools according to the decided theme:

The first is the June image page

I believe that friends who love to play with paper tape collage are familiar with the design here, which uses the frame edge Go to collage. Here is a simple hand-painted plant. Friends who like collage can use paper tape to create the same effect.

The "scheme setting" here is actually a small removable calendar, which can be made with a sticky note. In this way, the small calendar can be designed according to the bujo on each page.

Finally do some simple enrichment and color fill, note that the color doesn't need to be too much, otherwise. . The workload will be huge~!

The next step is the habit record and check-in page

I plan to use a 3X10 small grid to check in every day. The left side is the daily habits category: such as before 12 o'clock Sleep, apply sunscreen, bring your own lunch (no eating out), and exercise for 1 hour; on the right is learning and growth skills: reading for 1 hour, parent-child diary, iPad illustration practice, listening to online classes or art audio.

Friends, you must set up habit check-ins according to your own situation. Don’t have too many items. For example, in my check-in items, bring your own lunch, exercise for 1 hour, parent-child diary, and illustration practice. In fact, the main challenge in forming good habits lies in the remaining four items.

Next is the WEEKLY weekly calendar page

I integrated important matters (EVENTS) into the page of the first week, divided into personal matters (PERSONAL) and work points (WORK):

During the process of drawing the square frame, my hand accidentally slipped, and the decorative effect of small leaves appeared:

What else can you do when you make a mistake? What about the ingenious remedy?

Continuing the second week of layout, incorporating a booklist (reading list), you can change it to a tobuylist (shopping list) according to your own situation:

No. Typesetting for the fourth and fifth weeks:

With the above, the important pages of the monthly bujo are completed - image page, calendar page, check-in page, and weekly calendar page.

Instagram bloggers also have wonderful title page settings:

In short, if you want to make a good bujo title page, you have to practice brush~

More monthly bujo layout design inspiration:

Haven’t seen enough? Remember to pay attention to Ye Xiaohui’s tutorial articles. From now on, there will be rich and diverse bujo layout attempts and materials provided every month!