Lockdown - a visual journal part 2

A short serialisation of my visual journal keeping during those first months in the UK

17th March 2025

If you kept a visual record of this time I’d love to see your first pages, please share a link to them here.

Week 2 - In the UK this was the week it all got really serious. We were ‘socially distancing’ already, but this week Lockdown went into force and travel outside your immediate area was banned.

I was so very lucky to live in a house, a house with a garden, with a person I love, and yet it’s still hard to express how surreal that time felt. How stressed we all were. Of course you know because you were somewhere too, going through your own version of this. Meanwhile the sun was warm and the skies, without planes, were a perfectly clear vibrant blue.

Hi - I’m Cara, a Graphic Recorder and Illustrator working in the UK.

If you like visual journaling I share a weekly post at The JOTT and I also write: The Visual Edit, a monthly newsletter for Graphic Recorders.

My book, Draw a Better Business is a visual thinking toolkit for creative thinking small business owners.

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