HeyJaredIllustrated Life
Connecting the dots between creative habit, drawing, writing, memory, gratitude, and making art in the margins. Plus, free Illustrate Your Week prompts for keeping an illustrated journal to document YOUR life. 🏳️🌈 🎨
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Week 40 Prompts for Illustrate Your Week 2026 (opens the original)
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Forgetting and Not Remembering are Not the Same (opens the original)
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Forgetting and not remembering are not the same thing. What happens when all you hold are a few stray details, a few dots of light in the ocean of darkness that sprawls behind you? Please: If you are a skimmer and know you won’t read length, skip this note and jump to the dragons.I ended up holding this piece an extra week while I debated, trimmed, added, honed, shaped, compressed, and stewed. It is still a draft, still a fledgling attempt to exp
Week 39 Prompts for Illustrate Your Week 2026 (opens the original)
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Before the Lantern Festival (Millcreek Village 8) (opens the original)
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The 5-4-3-2-1 of the Week / An Inverted Pyramid (opens the original)
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I first used this inverted pyramid structure almost exactly a year ago. I like it as a way to move through several different categories of information, picking up speed as you move from the broadest to the most narrow. This structure becomes a puzzle in and of itself, a challenge to shuffle details into a logical and orderly form.1<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LVHk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-m
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