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Start Here!—Looking for an Illustrated Life?
Make the most of creative margins, document your life with an illustrated journal, and generally seek balance and mindfulness through art.
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Amy Cowen
Comic Affirmations, 64-70
An exercise in simplified line and positive thinking, a daily affirmation comic for the 2024 100 Day Project.
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Stuck in My Head
When fragments break through in haunting whistles, 100+ list ideas, and prompts for Week 17
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100+ Lists for Your Illustrated Journal
Lists can be an easy, practical, and wonderful addition to your pages. Making lists…. It’s a lot like eating potato chips.
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Diary List Comics / 52 Weeks
52 weeks of colorful weekly life summaries
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Lists, notes, and keeping an illustrated journal
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Stone Lanterns and 100 Day Projects
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Milk Jug Luminaries — Looking Back at One Year on Substack
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Oddball Sock Critters
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Illustrated Life is a reader-supported publication.

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Stuck in My Head
When fragments break through in haunting whistles, 100+ list ideas, and prompts for Week 17
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Amy Cowen
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12 Ways to Keep Your Journal Private
You want to keep an illustrated journal as your daily art container, but you don’t want to share the nitty gritty details of your life with the public…
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Am I a Writer? Am I an Artist?
When being a bit of this and a bit of that makes you seem like not “enough” of anything. A “variety show” mentality.
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A Blinker Speeds Up
A blinker goes out, cherry blossom quotes, and journal prompts for April reflection
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Crossing a line
I walked into the children’s library
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Badges, Lumberjanes, and Gamification
A badge-gathering approach to life and a few fun comics and graphic novels
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31
Oddball Sock Critters
Creative check-in, affirmations project
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A Series of Clowns
"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing." T.S. Eliot Happy Sunday! How did I not know that T.S. Eliot wore green face paint…
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Comic Affirmations

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Comic Affirmations, 64-70
An exercise in simplified line and positive thinking, a daily affirmation comic for the 2024 100 Day Project.
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Amy Cowen
Comic Affirmations, 57-63 (Week 9!)
An exercise in simplified line and positive thinking, a daily affirmation comic for the 2024 100 Day Project.
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Amy Cowen
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Comic Affirmations, 50-56 — Halfway!
An exercise in simplified line and positive thinking, a daily affirmation comic for the 2024 100 Day Project.
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Comic Affirmations, 43-49
An exercise in simplified line and positive thinking, a daily affirmation comic for the 2024 100 Day Project.
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Amy Cowen
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Keeping an Illustrated Journal

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100+ Lists for Your Illustrated Journal
Lists can be an easy, practical, and wonderful addition to your pages. Making lists…. It’s a lot like eating potato chips.
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Amy Cowen
5
12 Ways to Keep Your Journal Private
You want to keep an illustrated journal as your daily art container, but you don’t want to share the nitty gritty details of your life with the public…
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Amy Cowen
22
Icon Practice and Building Visual Vocabulary
A bit of background information about the "icons" that appear as part of Illustrate Your Week, plus a story of a clover and a shamrock
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12 Things to "Letter" In Your Illustrated Journal
A list of easy word-based content you can treat as visual elements on your pages.
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12 Things to Include in Your Illustrated Journal
12 types of daily-life content you can include in your illustrated journal and that you can pick and choose from, on repeat.
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Reader Favorites

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Badges, Lumberjanes, and Gamification
A badge-gathering approach to life and a few fun comics and graphic novels
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Amy Cowen
31
Oddball Sock Critters
Creative check-in, affirmations project
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Amy Cowen
17
Milk Jug Luminaries — Looking Back at One Year on Substack
A flag in the sand after a full year on Substack
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Amy Cowen
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Lists, notes, and keeping an illustrated journal
Words and meaning, daily drawing, and Week 4 prompts for Illustrate Your Week
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Illustrate Your Week

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Week 17 Prompts for Illustrate Your Week 2024
Prompts for Week 17 of 2024 for #illustrateyourweek in your illustrated journal
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Week 16 Prompts for Illustrate Your Week 2024
Prompts for Week 16 of 2024 for #illustrateyourweek in your illustrated journal
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Week 15 Prompts for Illustrate Your Week 2024
Prompts for Week 15 of 2024 for #illustrateyourweek in your illustrated journal
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