Connecting the dots between creative habit, drawing, writing, memory, gratitude, and making art in the margins. Plus, free Illustrate Your Week prompts for keeping an illustrated journal to document YOUR life. \ud83c\udff3️\ud83c\udf08 \ud83c\udfa8
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Week 39 Prompts for Illustrate Your Week 2026
I post a new set of Illustrate Your Week prompts every Sunday to help inspire and nurture the process of keeping an illustrated journal of your life. Add text and images to make a visual record that is uniquely you.
Illustrate Your Week...
Before the Lantern Festival (Millcreek Village 8)
Digital collage/image manipulation using multiple free-to-use photos from online sources. A. Cowen 2026
This is the eighth post in this Millcreek Village series. You can read other installments in Az’s story here.
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The 5-4-3-2-1 of the Week / An Inverted Pyramid
I first used this inverted pyramid structure almost exactly a year ago. I like it as a way to move through several different categories of information, picking up speed as you move from the broadest to the most narrow. This structure become...
Week 38 Prompts for Illustrate Your Week 2026
I post a new set of Illustrate Your Week prompts every Sunday to help inspire and nurture the process of keeping an illustrated journal of your life. Add text and images to make a visual record that is uniquely you.
Illustrate Your Week...
Endless paths through time and a volume of poetry? (Millcreek Village 7)
Digital collage/image manipulation using multiple free-to-use photos from online sources. A. Cowen 2026
This is the seventh post in this Millcreek Village series. You can read other installments in Az’s story here.
S06 026 10P 🜃 ∓ ❧...
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Connecting the dots, from illustrated journals to diary comics, memory, creative nonfiction, hybrid forms, and creative habit. Free weekly #illustrateyourweek prompts to document YOUR life. \ud83c\udff3️\ud83c\udf08 (she/her)
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