Genre-specific art journaling.
The hardest part about starting a journal is staring at a blank page and wondering how to fill it, so we’re here to help give you a little inspiration! Last week, we talked about art journaling, so this week we bring to you an idea for a type of art journaling that many people follow: music journaling.
Music journaling is one of the easiest types of art journaling because there is so much visual content available out there for music lovers, from logos to album covers to merch to photographs to sheet music. Think about what kind of music you like. With classical music, there is tons of free sheet music that you could cut up and collage. Or you could draw or paint creative representations of classical instruments. With classic rock, there are album covers and funky fonts and splashes of dark or neon colors.
The big name in music journaling right now is K-Pop journaling. K-Pop, or Korean Pop music, is music from South Korea that is currently sweeping across the United States, integrating itself into various aspects of online fandom culture as well as the more traditional media sources like television and radio, spearheaded in part by the massively popular group, BTS. And fans of all ages have taken to expressing their love for this genre of music in many different ways, one of those ways being K-Pop journaling. I have included a couple links below to videos of diarists creating K-Pop journals, but key features tend to be artist logos, photos of the artists, calligraphy, colorful stickers and decorations, and visual playlists of the artist’s songs as well as written memories from concerts attended.
So if you like art and music of any genre, try giving music journaling a go.
On a different note, if you like BTS, K-Pop, Korean Dramas, Korean culture, or any or all of the above, check out our new KClub! We meet on Saturdays about once a month or so for two hours where we stream an episode of a K-Drama and then discuss and chat.
Resources & Inspiration:
“16 Art Journal Prompt Ideas for Music Lovers” from ARTJOURNALIST
“Starting a K-Pop Journal”, video by AmandaRachLee on YouTube
“starting a new journal: my 6th kpop journal”, video by mihan. on YouTube
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