Draw the Story Journal

Each two-page spread in this sketchbook has a short, 2 paragraph story opener—it's up to you to draw the rest, using your imagination, creativity, and favorite pens or pencils to full effect.

• DRAW THE STORY: Contains 200 pages of stories you can let your imagination run wild with. Great for any skill level and for any age range.
• GUIDED SKETCHBOOK: If you love to draw but need a little inspiration this is the book for you! Whether you want to be the illustrator or you just love to draw, this book is full of ways to push you out of your comfort zone. Use your creativity to bring the story to life.
• FURTHER YOUR SKILLS: Use this guided sketchbook to further your technique and improve your skills. Practice your sketches, master your signature style and unleash the artist in you!
• PREMIUM PAPER: The wood-free, acid-free, archive quality paper will make sure your inspired creations stand through the test of time. Fill every page with your unique art and treasure it for year to come.

Designed + Produced in Portland, Oregon
* Woman Owned Business

Portland's most colorful, authentic, and empowering publishing house and distributor, Microcosm Publishing equips readers to make positive changes in their lives and in the world around them. Microcosm emphasizes skill-building, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and zines about DIY skills, food, bicycling, gender, self-care, and social justice.Microcosm has lived in milk crates, in closets, in a mud room, in a windowless basement, in a church, and under a desk at a major credit card company. We've brought our brightly colored books to infoshops, zine fests, media summits, bicycle conferences, parks, street corners, house shows, dirty bars, all­night coffeeshops, art museums, and every corner of the mainstream where we can clear away a little space to set up shop. We set out to save ourselves from not caring, but out there in the margins we've found communities worth always doing it better for. Now we have contracts instead of handshakes, a warehouse instead of a fanny pack full of zines. We have a staff, we have relationships in the industry that send our books to places we wouldn't have dreamed we could walk into ourselves. We're not as drunk or dirty as we used to be. But still, at heart, we've got this milk crate strapped to the back of a bike and we're riding wildly across town to hand you the book that might just be the one that saves your life!