My response to a journaling question on Reddit

“I’m not the best drawer and in this moment in time I don’t really have a lot of my time that I can dedicate to being super creative with my journal.

So these are some example sketches that I just done quickly from photo reference, it took my roughly around 3/5 minutes to complete. Would including more of these sketches ruin my journal?”

I think anything you add to your journal enhances it, even if you later decide to edit it or cover it up in some way. One of the participants in the journaling workshop I teach shared that if there was something that he wrote and later felt uncomfortable having in his journal, he'd tear out the page, leaving the margin along the binding and write on that remaining margin a description/summary of what he'd torn out. Another folded over the pages on which he'd made drawings he didn't like and wrote on the folded pages "Random Art Failures." I think both solutions add interest, tell a story and show that theses people had taken the risk to be vulnerable. These are not ideas for how to make your journal better by removing or editing content but for helping you to know that you can feel free to draw or write anything you want in it.

That said, I hope you keep this drawing in your journal and visible because it has a lot of interest, charm and personality.

For a drawing you're not sure if you like but think you want to keep in your journal, you might want to consider, drawing some kind of frame around it to show a willingness to take ownership over both its strengths and what you might consider to be flaws.

Lastly, I strongly feel that the only wrong way to journal is to not journal.

Hope this helps.