This book walks you through the steps of creating your own artistic journal, and does so pretty easily. I understood how to hand bind a journal through pictures, something I only kind of fumbled through before. The story boarding and strategies for choosing themes or pictures was clear and precise. I don't paint well, but the style of journaling can easily be applied to pictures you like, or find, or pictures of friends or family. You could even make a highly stylized family tree album (which I might try) using these methods. Any painter or digital artist can easily enjoy this book, just as well as someone like me who don't even know how to how a paintbrush. Very cool!

Perfect! Anyone who journals is going to fall in love with this book. It's one I'll be referring to often.

If you like the idea of creating an art journal where you can paint different projects, then this book is for you. In its pages you will find a series of projects and ideas that will teach you how to do an art journal from scratch and how to fill its pages with different projects. I find it nice that they give you some instructions about creating your art book and then some projects to began filling it and then some techniques from where you can learn to do your own thing once you are confident enough :)

In order to help your creative side they present you with 24 projects guided from step one to completition, from creating as I've said the art journal; to get inspirations from art or photos, quotes, etc; to use different techniques like watercolor, markers, collages, etc.
What I loved is that they show you different things, how to combine lettering with pics with splashes of color so you can see different things you can do and then decide which one will be your approach to your own journal.

I think it is a nice book from where to get inspiration to do your own art and also providing some tutorials about techniques and stuff.