Dawn DeVries Sokol

Dawn DeVries Sokol is the author of six doodling books, including Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls, which has sold over 100,000 copies. With a bachelor's degree in journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, Sokol has worked her way from editing and designing newspapers to art directing magazines to designing and authoring books. She also illustrates lettering, teaches online workshops, and doodles in her art journals as much as possible. Her articles about art journaling and...See more

Dawn DeVries Sokol is the author of six doodling books, including Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls, which has sold over 100,000 copies. With a bachelor's degree in journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, Sokol has worked her way from editing and designing newspapers to art directing magazines to designing and authoring books. She also illustrates lettering, teaches online workshops, and doodles in her art journals as much as possible. Her articles about art journaling and doodling have appeared in Cloth Paper Scissors, Pages magazine, Art Journaling Exposed, and Somerset Studio's Art Journaling, and she shot a DVD workshop, "Art Journaling: Pages in Stages" with Interweave Press in 2010. In 2012, she was commissioned to paint a utility box and design a library card for The City of Tempe. Her art journaling workshops have been favorites on Creativebug.com since she started teaching on the site in 2014. Her artwork has appeared in shows from Tempe, AZ, to Tokyo, Japan. See less