Cherish Your Journey:
Create a Visual Journal that Preserves Your Life’s Adventures in a Stunning Vintage Art Style
Imagine this: you've just explored one of Iceland's most breathtaking landscapes, capturing stunning photos of lush greens and majestic mountains, and creating memories you'll treasure forever. Fast forward two months, and you're back in the hustle of your daily 9-to-5, surrounded by the city buzz.
Do you feel like your cherished travel memories are slowly fading, or that you haven't done anything truly meaningful with your time since you returned? Are you experiencing those post-travel blues, secretly wishing you were still immersed in that incredible journey?
About the Course
Discover how to turn your travel experiences into a visual journal, filled with personal meaning and cherished memories! Learn to combine drawing, watercolour and pastel techniques to create textured, charming vintage-styled illustrations that bring back a sense of nostalgia whenever you flip through the pages of your sketchbook.
Why You’ll Love It
Live Intentionally: Relive your favourite travel memories as you seek to recreate them through creative illustrations
Guided Art Techniques: Learn step-by-step techniques to achieve a vintage aesthetic, even as a beginner to art
Experience Travel With a New Lens: Get inspired to travel differently by observing and sketching the world
And best of all, you'll have a keepsake that's uniquely yours—a personal masterpiece crafted by your own hands, just for you.
A Sneak Preview Into What You’ll Learn
Organise your ideas and themes for sketching
Know the essential materials to create a vintage look
Learn basic drawing, watercolour and illustration techniques for beginners
Learn how to add textures, shadows, and details for a unique style
How to pack a travel-friendly art kit for on-the-go creativity
…and more!
With countless digital photos on your phone, when was the last time you truly revisited and savoured your travel memories? In today’s digital age, experiencing a tangible keepsake carries a far more profound impact than simply scrolling through images on a screen.
Is This Course For You?
It’ll be a great fit for you if you are…
A travel enthusiast who loves art, and who enjoys a non-conventional travel experience (think: slow-travelling or eco-tourism)
Looking for a deeper way to connect deeper with the sights and cultural experience when travelling, and who desire to create personally meaningful keepsakes beyond purchasing the typical off-the-shelf souvenirs
Seeking a mindful, creative way to capture memories
A beginner in sketching or journalling
Course Overview
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About me + How I got started in art
Sketchbook flip-through: My art through the years
What you can expect from this course
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Where to find inspiration
Things you can look out for + What catches your eye
Explore themes to sketch
Organisation and documentation of ideas - collate photos and jot down notes on the go
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Recommended Materials to achieve the vintage style
Where to get them
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Drawing from observation: breaking down objects into shapes and guidelines
Tracing Technique
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Watercolour techniques
Watercolour Washes
Common mistakes beginners make
Basic colour mixing
Vintage colours mixing
Blending with pastel pencils
Practice exercises
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Demo: Paint an Apple
Demo: Paint a Yellow Flower
Demo: Paint a Horse
Demo: Paint a Landscape
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Prompts/exercises to get started
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Tips on how to downsize your art supplies for travelling
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More Than Just a Travel Journal
Reinterpret old photo albums from your childhood or of your parents into a personal illustrated journal of memories
Create a meaningful gift for someone you love, or for yourself
From travel memories to treasured family moments… the possibilities are endless!
hello there!
I am Esther from Singapore, and I am an artist with a background in industrial design and marketing. I started my journey in art and illustration in 2020, during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, to keep myself inspired during the long days lockdown. Since then, after rounds and rounds of exploration, I have developed along the way my signature soft, dreamy and vintage style, achieved using a range of tools and techniques.
Art has been a healing journey for me in terms of discovering myself, as well as giving me a platform to connect with like-minded friends, both online and offline, who love being creative and making beautiful things! As such, I created this course Illustrate a Travel Journal in Vintage Style so I can share the joy art has given me with you ♥
I look forward to having you join me for the course!
FAQs
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This course is meant to be suitable for beginners and intermediate level. Having the basics would be helpful, but it is not strictly needed. I will be guiding you on the basic techniques of watercolour, drawing and using pastels.
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In the course, I will share with you a list of my recommended art materials that I love, and use myself. If you’re just starting out, I also have a list of quality, affordable tools you can consider.
You will need a sketchbook (with at least 50% cotton), watercolour paintbrushes, paints, colour pencils, pastel pencils, blending stump and eraser. I will share with you my commonly used colours for the pencils, so you can purchase them individually first and decide later whether you’d like to invest in a set.
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The full course will launch on 30 Apr 2025.
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Yes! The course will be self-paced, so you can complete it in a pace that is comfortable to you :) You will also have lifetime access to the course, so you can revisit it again in the future
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Absolutely not! I believe that travelling is first and foremost, the ability to see and experience your surroundings with fresh, curious eyes 👀
To do that, you could simply make a day trip to a part of town you’re less familiar with, or even take a different route to work! You’ll surprise yourself with the number of things you’ll find, that you can illustrate as a subject in your sketchbook.
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Yes of course! The techniques taught in this class are versatile, and specifically towards teaching you how to achieve the dreamy, vintage style of illustration.
You can also apply the techniques to a wide range of subjects such as architecture, plants, vehicles etc :) The possibilities are endless!