Master Time for Artist: Bullet Planner

As artists, we like to turn everything into art.

A bullet planner is the perfect fit for someone who wants to draw all their appointments and tasks in their planner.

A bullet planner is a sheet of paper with many dots.

This design gives the owner a blank canvas to make their planner whatever they need it to be.

If your thing is coloring or doodling on your planner, this might be the planner type for us.

Let us jump back a bit since this is a continued discussion from my article, MASTER TIME FOR ARTISTS: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ARTISTS TO BOOST PRODUCTIVITY. We also discussed the importance of compiling all your weekly tasks in MASTER TIME FOR ARTISTS: THE USE OF A TRADITIONAL PLANNER.

Now, with your list of all the tasks you need to complete over the week, you have multiple ways of moving forward.

Since bullet planners have no set page design, you must design everything yourself. You can title the top of the page “WEEK of Aug 25 - 31, 2024.” Then make a small heading for Sunday and list the tasks you want to do. (I vote for taking a nap after church :).)

After all your tasks for Sunday are listed, you will continue with the rest of the week.

You could also list all your weekly tasks, with a line next to each task and a checkbox. On the line, you would write the day you plan to do the tasks, while the checkbox is for marking them off when they are finished.

The beautiful thing about the bullet planner is the flexibility and ability to include art on each page. If you are inspired to draw a birdhouse, you could write down your housework in a list under the birdhouse.

Do you love to draw word art? Your bullet planner would let you write your word for the week across the page and plan all your tasks to honor it.

Your imagination is the limit.

I’ve included some examples of bullet planners in this post to inspire you.

A word of caution to someone who needs to have repeated pages. This planner isn’t the best fit for you because you’d have to redraw the same page over and over. This takes a lot of time and prevents you from working on your art and business.

If you are drawn to the bullet planner because you can incorporate your art into your task planner, having a blank page or section on your planner page might be a better fit for you to express yourself while saving time.

Now, here are those bullet planners.

After seeing some examples, you can try a bullet planner or a bullet journal to catalog your art while using a traditional planner to log all your tasks.

Until next time, Happy Creating.

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