![]() Steps to create an architectural focused travel art journal: Space left for text allowed me to record a few things I learned about truffles. You can read more about my adventure truffle hunting in Italy on my post about it. The journal gave me space to capture what stood out about the experience- the texture of a truffle, our guide and his dog, and the views as we hiked through the Tuscan hills overlooking Florence. To be honest, it’s not one of my favorite travel doodles but it captures that experience well- and that is what my travel journals are all about. I didn’t actually get the chance to doodle the page above until I was in Croatia. My Experience Sketchnoting in my travel journal in Italy Draw lines connecting important parts to relevant text and highlight what you’d want a reader to notice or know about the thing that you drew. Once you’ve done a rough doodle – or a full-on finished illustration, add a few notes to the drawing. Even if they’re just rough sketches, research shows that the process of translating the memory to a drawing (even a terrible drawing) helps us remember much better than we would if we wrote about it or didn’t record it all. When you sit down to work on your art travel journal, think about what sticks out to you from your day – what objects or images are most poignant? What did you learn? How to create sketchnote style journal pages If you’re in the food business, you can make notes about meals and ingredients to try back home, if you work in tourism/travel, you can take notes detailing what is/isn’t working about your current trip, etc. ![]() It’s perfect for using your travel journal occasionally. This type is perfect for remembering details, key points, and specifics of your trip. They can help illustrate your memory and review what you learned. Sketch note style journal pages are great for taking notes on things you want to remember. In the illustration above, I capture a broad-stroke memory of the day via the landscape, add words, and include an educational close-up illustration – in this case, a little study of what I learned to look for in a good black truffle mushroom. It’s a combination of a landscape-style travel art journal page and a sketch note version. The travel journal page shown here describes my unforgettable day on a truffle hunting Airbnb Experience in Italy. The sketchnote style travel journal brings both of these traditions together in a format that combines short-format text mixed with small and medium-size illustrations. (Need some inspiration to start? Download my printable Bullet Style Travel Journal Template) Using your travel journal before your trip to plot out things to do, itineraries, and points of interest you dream of traveling to can be a helpful way to organize your trip and set up journal pages that can then be filled out in more detail on-location. This style of journal works well with a bullet journal style format, and can even be started well before your trip. A photo or doodle, paired with a brief description is a good way to organize a travel journal without spending too much precious travel time writing. Half article, half list, the “listicle” is a top format for new sites, and it’s a format that works great for travel journals. How to choose? Consider what style works best for you, what skills you’d like to practice and grow through your travel journal, and what kind of memories you most want to put on record through art and illustrations. Which style – or which combination of types – that you use is up to you. The way I see it, there are five types of travel journals, explained below. It was the PERFECT trip to experiment with my style and practice of travel journaling, since as a solo traveler I had the time to make my own schedule, and my trip included a little bit of everything- including famous art, iconic architecture, awe-inspiring visas, and a few amazing air B&B experiences to illustrate. I created my first travel journal on my inaugural solo trip– a month-long trip from Italy to Croatia, then Bosnia and Herzegovina and back again. These margin doodles eventually turned into illustrated notes, so when I took my first big solo international trip the summer after my second year of grad school, it felt like a natural extension to begin the first of many solo international travels cataloged in mixed media art journals. I spent most of my 20’s working so hard I never made space for art and journaling, but after selling my business at 33 and returning to school for a Masters’s degree, I found myself often doodling in the margins of my notes. I didn’t start my first travel journal until I was 30.
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