So why not dedicate a whole dotted notebook to this noble pursuit? Doodling is a great stress-reliever and can help you through a creative block or a long meeting. Sometimes, you don’t want to create masterworks, or even finished drawings – you just want to let your pencil or pen go for a walk and see what happens. It’s barely there and easy to fade out when you publish your finished piece on Instagram. Unlike a lined pad, a dotted paper notebook’s ruling won’t cut through the downstrokes on under-hanging letters and create an unsightly interruption of your flowing script. Not only will a dotted ruling keep your lettering perfectly horizontal on the page, it also helps you to keep even spacing between letters and words, and to make sure your letter forms (‘e’s, ‘a’s, the tails of your ‘y’ and so on) are consistent and beautifully even. For practicing calligraphyĬaught the hand-lettering bug? If you’re into calligraphy, or if you fancy giving it a try, a dot grid journal is a great item to have in your kit. You’ll be able to use an eraser without buckling or wearing the paper, go over lines, and use ink without worrying that it will bleed through. If you’re using a dotted notebook as a sketchpad, it’s important to have good quality paper (our 100gsm Munken Kristall, for example) to work on.
Say you’re drawing a group of people – if you can see that someone’s head is two dots high, you can use that two-dot measure for other people in the picture and keep everyone’s proportions the same. They can also lend a hand when it comes to perspective drawing and mapping out geometric forms like buildings and cityscapes.įinally, you can use them to help you gauge proportions between different elements of your drawing. They can help with composition, as you’ll be able to better portion out the page for different parts of your drawing. As a dot grid sketchbookĭots can add an extra element of structure to your sketch practice. Or you can box off different parts of the page so you can capture ideas in a non-linear way. With a dotted page, you have the added benefit of being able to break out of lined text into doodles or sketches when the mood takes you. It may take a little practice, but you’ll be into the swing of it after a line or two. Just use the horizontal dots the way you’d use lines in a ruled notebook. Record thoughts, impressions, memories and ideas – whatever helps you to de-stress or process your day. Now is the perfect time to start a daily diary.
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If so, we have you covered with a whole list of suggestions for how to use a dotted notebook. Or you may be in search of a little inspiration. If you’re lucky enough to be the owner of a MOO Notebook or Journal with dotted pages, you may already be bursting with ideas for how to use it. But they don’t make so much of an impact that they get in the way of drawings or make your page look cluttered.īest of all, they’re easy to fade out of your photographs using filters and editing tools, so you can post images online and give the impression that you started with a blank page.
Regularly spaced dots can be used to keep handwriting on an even keel, add structure to a table or checkbox layout, or give you the backbone of a diagram. It feels like a blank sheet of paper… but with built-in autopilot. The dot grid however is the goldilocks option – a happy compromise between blank, ruled and squared pages. They just didn’t leave much room for artistic flourishes or creative expression. But they also made pages look a little denser. These made it easier to do things like draw diagrams or lay out a table of figures. Then there was the squared pages option, which often brought back memories (good or otherwise) of math homework. Ruled lines meanwhile help those whose handwriting tends to slant off into oblivion, as can sometimes happen on a blank page. Unruled Blank pages have long been the preference of creatives looking to sketch and doodle.
Traditionally, notebook pages came in three options: unruled, wide ruled or narrow ruled. Thanks to its versatility and less-is-more appeal the dotted notebook page has been quite ‘the thing’ recently – just ask the journalers of Instagram.
There’s nothing plain about the fresh trend in the notebook world – it’s dots! Here’s all you need to know to get the most out of your MOO Hardcover Journal – dot grid version.
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