Wreck This Journal: Crack the Spine

At the beginning I was a bit lost, I didn't really know what to do with the journal. So I decided to choose every day a page at random and 'force' myself to work only on that page and focus.
But, as you may now know, that didn't last long...



I'm the kind of person who starts a 100 projects at once and then gives up each and every one of them little by little, that's why it was so important to focus.

So the 'Crack the Spine' page, I did a quick sketch of a (anatomically incorrect) broken spine, I know, very original... But I did crack the spine of the book, I opened it to the middle and pressed hard.

Wreck This Journal: Instructions

The instructions page... where do I begin? The tittle of this journal appears often in the comments, usually to remind me that I did it wrong. But I think this people seem to have overlooked the 'Instructions Page'.

1. Carry this with you everywhere you go. 
2. Follow the instructions on every page.
3. Order is not important.
4. Instructions are open to interpretation.
5. Experiment. (work against your better judgment)

And we shouldn't forget about the author Keri Smith, who is a conceptual artist who makes this books for people to experiment, even if they think the can't.

Thanks to this book, I used methods and materials that I wouldn't think of using before, I gained confidence in my drawing skills and I don't worry anymore if a drawing is missing or if I screwed up, because what is important is the process of making something out of nothing.

So there is no right or wrong way, just do what you want and enjoy it.

                                               

Wreck This Journal

Last year I started a project called 'Wreck This Box' by Keri Smith. It's a collection of art journals that makes you experiment, explore and extend your imagination with a series of tasks that you need to complete.


I finished 'Wreck this journal' last year in August,  'Mess' will be finished in a couple of weeks and I'm currently working on 'This is not a book' and 'The pocket scavenger' but more slowly, as well as in other journals that I will talk about in future posts.

Since then I've been posting daily pictures of the progress on Instagram and weekly videos on my Youtube channel. But I noticed that some of you ask me the same questions and often my answers get lost on the comments... So I thought It could be useful to post a detailed description of every page here, how I did it and what did I used.


Watch the flip through here: