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Duane Toops's avatar

WOW! Everything about this is fantastic!! The font is amazing! I distress all my type by hand, but I've never tried to make a font. the day planner art is gorgeous! And the stamps are marvelous! Start to finish this is excellent!

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Mitchell Volk's avatar

Wow thanks! I've also never really tried to make a font before but the sites I mentioned make it pretty easy.

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement.

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Duane Toops's avatar

You did it masterfully! Great work my friend! Seriously love what you're doing!

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Ty (He/Him)'s avatar

Love so much in this, man! Fully agree that blank pages and fancy journals are terrifying. When I used commercial ones, I preferred those with grid paper. Now I'm making my own and I love how I can customize them to what I need.

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Mitchell Volk's avatar

I also prefer grid paper whenever possible. It's enough of a guide but also not in the way if you want to ignore it.

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Seth Werkheiser's avatar

Love that sketchbook as an animated GIF!

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Julianne Griepp's avatar

I love the idea of sketching in a planner! I'm always looking for ways to remind me not to be so precious with sketchbooks, from writing UGLY SKETCHBOOK in big letters on the front to making sketchbooks myself out of different types of scrap paper. But I never thought of repurposing a book made for a totally different activity like this, it's a great exercise and the final result looks like it would be really fun to page through. (helps that your sketches are so charming :))

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Mitchell Volk's avatar

Oh I love the UGLY SKETCHBOOK idea. I've been holding onto random scrap paper to put together into a notebook or something but I know nothing about binding... thanks for the kind words!

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Parker's avatar

So inspiring. All of it. Thank you 🤩

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Lindsey Melden's avatar

Love the idea of planner as sketchbook! Definitely going to try that out. Also, that ted talk is fantastic - sharing it immediately with my art prof friend who loves skating!!

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Mitchell Volk's avatar

It's one of my favorites! He's using skateboarding as a way to talk about a bunch of other things.

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Malivoyage 🖌️A Dos De Pinceaux's avatar

Saved : so helpful !

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Malivoyage 🖌️A Dos De Pinceaux's avatar

I love this quote ! My daughter (same âge) sat on her bank with her luggage on her knees : » I am waiting for the subway /tube. Like my dad «  (with a real old metro ticket in the hand).

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Mitchell Volk's avatar

Aww that's so great!

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mary g.'s avatar

Which daily planner did you buy? Can you tell us who makes it?

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Mitchell Volk's avatar

Unfortunately I picked it up in another country so I have no idea!

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