{"id":21,"date":"2025-02-05T02:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dearjrnl.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2025-02-05T02:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:47:50","slug":"new-year-new-jrnl-new-theme-new-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dearjrnl.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/new-year-new-jrnl-new-theme-new-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New Jrnl, New Theme, New Energy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whew! It’s been a minute, hasn’t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I often get these grand creative ideas, and get started with them… but because I tend to ridiculously overcomplicate literally everything, I can’t keep up the momentum and I run out of steam very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, one of the main things I do this with is my Jrnl. And the past couple years, it’s been pretty bad. I come up with complicated themes for the year, and then totally fail to make any of the art needed to keep the theme going for the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, I feel determined to avoid my past mistakes…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Last year I chose the theme of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It has 12 chapters, and I reasoned that a chapter a month would work very well. But I ended up not drawing a single cover page. I did color themed washi tape on my calenders each month — blue for the Pool Of Tears, green for The Rabbit Sends In A Little Bill, red for Who Stole The Tarts, and so on, but that was about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year before that, the theme was the solar system. It was going to be the 9 planets (yes, including Pluto), plus the moon, the sun, and the asteroid belt. I did the first two cover pages, for Pluto and Neptune, and again kept up the washi tape theme, but over all it was a disappointment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I realized that the thing in common for all those years — along with other years of failed theming — was that I picked things that I couldn’t just draw representatively, off the top of my head, in a way that satisfied me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this year, I’ve picked something that should be much simpler for me: Fruit! It’s delicious, it’s cute, vibrant, and fun, and best of all, it’s relatively easy for me to draw!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, I have done Lime for January, and I have chosen Strawberry for February. I’ll probably do Pineapple for March, because that’s my birthday month and my favorite fruit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So… here’s to 2025, and hoping that I can actually keep up with things this time! \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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