Illustrated Life

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Connecting the dots between creative habit, drawing, writing, memory, gratitude, aging, making art in the margins, & more. Plus, free Illustrate Your Week prompts for keeping an illustrated journal. 📓 🏳️‍🌈 🖋️

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Sunday post and limited access to Illustrate Your Week prompts

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Sunday post
  • Full access to Illustrate Your Week prompts
  • More personal subscriber-only posts

Paid Subscription Plans

  • $7 a month
  • $60 a year

About Amy Cowen

Documenting life and connecting the dots. Writing about illustrated journals, diary comics/graphic novels, memory, creative life, aging, gratitude, and loss. Weekly #illustrateyourweek prompts. 🏳️‍🌈 🖋️SF (she/her)

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