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🌲NORDIC COUNTRIES TRAVEL JOURNAL🏕️ SWEDEN + FULL FLIPTHROUGH | How to start travel journaling

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The final chapter of this exiting project! My concertina travel sketchbook/journal dedicated to the Nordic Countries [Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden], made entirely with pencil, watercolour and water soluble pencils, is now finally complete, and I'm very happy to show you the final flipthrough but also to recap the best tips, advice and lessons that I've learned, super useful if you want to start your travel journal project now! If you like this video and you want to watch the making of every single chapter of this journal, here are all the links: NORWAY pt.1 [Flam & Olden]: https://youtu.be/P_XWnzIYaHk NORWAY pt.2 [Alesund & Bergen]: https://youtu.be/hcOh2AdBF6s DENMARK pt.1 [Danish pastries]: https://youtu.be/KCCjlMxZgQY DENMARK pt.2 [Copenhagen]: https://youtu.be/ySs7XM-kzXQ FINLAND [Helsinki]: https://youtu.be/9rZ2pIg-QhU :) Feel free to support my channel on: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/carlopavan This video chapters: 00:00 Intro: how to create an illustrated travel sketchbook 00:30 Top concertina sketchbook for travel journaling 01:29 What to illustrate in a travel journal 02:22 Easy tips for easy illustrations 03:33 How to keep a cohesive journaling style 04:46 The 'ugly' stage in watercolour 05:30 Why using water soluble pencils 06:05 What if you didn't take notes? 07:24 Full travel journal flipthrough 08:33 Outro Additional video clips by Canva. Take care everyone, and if you like this video, please like/comment/subscribe/share! -------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT ME I’m Carlo Pavan, Italian born performer, artist and content creator based in London UK. On my channel I create videos about Art, Journaling and Being Human every week! If you want you can buy me a coffee and support my life as a struggling artist here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/carlopavan :) ----------------------------------------------------- My website: https://www.carlopavan.com Contact me: carlopavan79@gmail.com My Instagram: / heycarlopavan My Bluesky: carlopavan.bsky.social #journaling #traveljournal #watercolour #travelsketchbook #NordicCountries #Sweden #Stockholm #Visby #Gotland #Finland #Denmark #Norway

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In this video I’m finally closing the loop on one of my favourite projects: my concertina travel sketchbook dedicated to the Nordic Countries. I take you through the final Sweden chapter, and then I do a full flipthrough of the entire journal—Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden—made with pencil, watercolour, and water-soluble pencils. It’s a proper “end of the journey” moment, and I wanted to show the finished piece not just as a reveal, but as a very practical example of what an illustrated travel journal can look like when you keep showing up page after page. Along the way I recap the tips and lessons that helped me the most: how I choose what to illustrate, how I keep drawings simple (so I actually finish the pages), and how I keep a cohesive style even when the locations and moods change. I also talk about the very real “ugly stage” in watercolour—because yes, pages can look terrible halfway through—and why water-soluble pencils are such a good bridge between sketching and painting. And if you didn’t take notes while travelling, I share what I do instead so you can still tell the story and romanticise the memories without feeling stuck.

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