A variation of the diary

 

I like keeping things fresh. So here is a slightly different variation I've tried out for myself. I used slightly different prompts. (It's fun to invent new ones along the way.) Here is what I used:

1. One thing I noticed.

2. I thing I started liking.

3. One thing I've been working on.

4. One thing I do almost every day.

5. One thing I want to learn.

6. One conversation I had.

In this one, I've done it very loosely. (And slightly messy. As I was mainly concerning about recording my thoughts and not so much trying to make it look polished enough to show the world. I don't show all my personal diaries, especially if they are too personal.) This time, I drew it with a pen but coloured it digitally.

To match the extreme casual looseness of the lines, I made the flat digital colouring equally loose. I used a mouse so I'd have less control, and I just lasso and filled up areas I wanted to colour. In my mind, I treated the colouring as cutting and pasting transparent sheets of coloured paper over the lines. And I kept it to only 2 colours. And I also observed the basic tonal contrast principles to make important parts of the pictures stand out.