Mini Drawings on Art Journal Pages

In August, I blogged about the half-empty art journals I should fill up. I had a mini art journal with only a few filled pages. They were mini drawings that I had made quickly a few years ago. I decided to tear the pages out of it and re-use them on my other journals. It has been more fun than I expected!

This is how small the journal was.

First I thought I just glue the pages on my other journals, like my Dylusions Creative Journal Square, but then got the idea to use the pages as collage pieces.

Art Journal Collage Idea – Cubism

Cubism is about breaking things in pieces and having many perspectives in one drawing. Some of the mini drawings had many angular shapes and that fits well with the idea of using them as a part of cubistic art journal page.

I continued the shapes in the mini-drawings by coloring and also colored new shapes.

I am really interested in architecture and interiors nowadays so I added some architectural details, a carpet, and such.

The floral page was made in February, and you can see process-pic of it here: Why Draw in The Ready-Made World?

Mini Drawings in a Hand-Drawn Collage

Over the years, I have drawn many collage pieces – boxes of them! The courses Animal Inkdom, Magical Inkdom, Doll World, and Decodashery has directions for them. I have throughly enjoyed making those courses, and I have also used many hand-drawn pieces on my art journal pages.

Now I used a mini page as a part of a handmade collage. I also picked some pieces from my boxes, and then combined all together by coloring and journaling around them.

The drawing on the right was made in July 2021, see the bigger picture here: Coloring with the Inner Child.

Art Journal Idea: Creative Lettering on Black Background

I had three mini drawings that were very illustrational, and I wanted to expand their graphic style with creative lettering to the rest of the pages.

The black background makes the shapes really stand out. This spread is still in progress. I am going to finish the left page in the same style as the right one.

I hope this blog post inspired you to create, and start making mini-drawings you can then re-use!