7 Tips for better (Sketch-) Journaling / Commonplace Book Entries

So I was thinking about what exactly makes some Sketch-Journal pages look so awesome and how to get our own hands on some of that magic. Here I go over what I did come up with and try to apply it to a new Journal page …
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🪚🪡 STUFF I USED 🔨🪓
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Selfmade Mini Watercolor Palette
Process Video: • Making a Mini Watercol...
along with a Mini 1 OZ Flask like this: amzn.to/3TS9yO7
Notebook: Will be featured in the next vid. Until then here is the one I used until now (Selfmade Traveler‘s Notebook):
Inlay Video: • DIY Traveler’s Noteboo...
Cover Video: • DIY Traveler’s Noteboo...
The best(!) over all Pencil: Faber-Castell 9000 Drawing Pencils F: amzn.to/3t9Mpxk
(Did you know that there is something between H and HB …?!?)
🖋️🖋️ FOUNTAIN PENS & INK ✒️✒️
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🖋️ My beloved copper Kaweco Liliput Fountain Pen (‘F‘ nib): amzn.to/42K0dMv
🚩 with red R&K Sketch Ink ‘Jule‘: amzn.to/3LEDaLQ (waterproof)
🖋️ The same pen but Aluminium (and thus much lighter) and black: amzn.to/3EU26vf (also ‘F‘ nib)
🚩 with dark blue R&K Sketch Ink ‘Frieda‘: amzn.to/3PA7Teb (waterproof)
🖋️ Kaweco Brass Sport (I use it with a ‘M‘ nib): amzn.to/48wtBIP
🚩 with Diamine Prussian Blue Ink: amzn.to/45akzhZ (Not waterproof)
🖋️ Picasso 916 Malage Fountain Pen (Polar Night Black): amzn.to/452SGs5
🚩 with this nice dark-grayish-brown R&K Sketch Ink ‘Lilly‘: amzn.to/3FSOTDS (waterproof, kinda like a off-black ink … if such a term exists …)
CONVERTERS (to get the bottled ink into the pens)
The Picasso comes with one. I bought one for the Kaweco Sport but don’t use it any more. Like for the Liliputs I now just use a pipette like this amzn.to/42AG5fH to refill a normal used plastic cartridge over and over again.

[@eastofawesome]

Do you have any further tips to ‚awesomnify‘ a journal page?

[@manvstationery]

This is brilliant :)

[@ezenami]

Love your videos! So cool to see your sketchbox get loved and used having watching the making of it video :) You really deserve more subs! This channel is so underrated!

[@eastofawesome]

Aww, thank you so much! Very encouraging! ✌️

[@chrisje_tine]

Amazing! Thanks for your tips

[@eastofawesome]

Thank you! ✌️

[@tylerbailey8839]

Loved this aesthetic! Great video! what size notebook is this?

[@Kdmud]

Thank you! New to your channel and I am loving it! Your creativity is inspiring 🔥🤩

[@eastofawesome]

Thank you very much! ✌️

[@YuliDnevnik]

People really do be sleeping with fountain pens and inks 🖋️

[@eastofawesome]

Hm, not totally sure what you mean … 🤔 But thanks for the comment either way! ✌️

[@aaronfitzgerald9109]

​@eastofawesome he's referring to how you have so many, it seems like an obsession, it's tongue in cheek 😅 sehr witzige

[@eastofawesome]

Ah thank you. Did not know this phrase. Hm, I don‘t think I have even used all of my fountain pens here :)

[@aaronfitzgerald9109]

Why don't you write them in German?

[@eastofawesome]

My Journals (as well as my digital notes) are usually a wild mix of English and German entries. Sometimes I even switch within a single entry back and forth. Most of the content I read or watch is english so often the brain defaults to english even if I dont speak it regularly. And if I know from the start, that I might want to make a video and record the process, then I think it also makes more sense to use English (even it might not be perfect English all the time … :)
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[@clickandedit8040]

i love your work. i recently start travel journling.I always feel that generalizing is a girl's job.But after seeing your work, I enjoy writing.Once you show me the item you use in writing pen pencil etc etc

[@eastofawesome]

Thank you, glad to hear about you getting into it! sry. for the late reply, just saw your comment now. Did you stick to it in the meantime?