Sketchbook Overview
Tool Instructions
Inspiration
Featured Artists (coming soon)
The Young Adult and Family Center at UCSF does not retain anything you create. Your journal will be gone as soon as you leave this page.
Begin
Background
Experiment with different types of backgrounds from papers, patterns, textures, and solid colors or upload your own image to customize your work.
Text
Insert a text box and play around with the text by changing fonts, sizes, styles, and colors. You can compress the textbox to make the text vertical or drag it to reposition it on the canvas. Create various text styles by adding additional textboxes.
Draw
Use the brush to draw or write your own text. Change its stroke size and color to make it your own.
Shapes
Try out different shapes and colors to add to your journal. You can overlap shapes, change their sizes, rotate them, and drag them to create unique figures anywhere on the canvas.
Clipart
Pick out different clipart images from our library of animals, emojis, household items, and more or upload your own clipart collections. You can overlap clipart images, change their sizes, rotate them, and drag them anywhere on the canvas.
Delete
Want to start a new journal? Delete your current progress and start over.
Download
Download your current journal as a .jpg and save it for later or share it with others.
Background
The left panel displays three customizable options for the background: Textures, Upload Background, and Solid Colors
To select Textures:
To upload a Custom Background:
To select Solid Colors:
Text
The left panel displays all the customizable options for the selected tools
To add Text:
To select a Font:
ClipArt
The left panel displays two customizable options for clipart: Library and Upload Clipart
To select Library:
To upload Clipart:
To customize your Clipart:
draw
The left panel displays all the customizable options for the selected tools
To select a Stroke Size:
To select Stroke Color:
shapes
The left panel displays all the customizable options for the selected tools
To select a Shape:
To customize your Shape: