Boarder

This is page 2 in my zine, it was unsuccessful at first and after a few attempts, I seemed to be getting nowhere. I took a look back at the pylon press zines from last year and got influence from them. I was encouraged to produce this frame and apply to to a few of the scenes which had too much negative space. I also used a few different medias such as ink, pastel, watercolour paint ect to produce a better shadow effect to what I initially had. Watercolour was most effective and as can be seen, I cut a shadow from it in photoshop and applied that to my work as well.

Developments so far

My first three pages so far. The front cover, insert page and page 1. As you can see, I'm trying to keep a constant flow so that the work looks like it is from the same zine. It's easy to lose track and produce several different artworks which don't relate. I've tried to keep the tea stained effect as a continuous graphic device and my hand rendered text.

Page ideas

Here are a few page idea which I consider to be least successful. The brightness and contrast on each design are all different and none of them appear to come from the same zine. All of this has prove to be a learning curve though, particularly the scene with tea stained circles. I learnt a few new skills when doing this scene which will most definitely help with development.

Zine- cover development

Development after words with a lecturer proves successful! I'm much happier with the hand rendered look. The circular shape was literally scanned tea stains, turned into greyscale via photoshop. I also resized the little bird because it was said to look like another letter amongst the text.

Zine- cover ideas

After illustrating several texts and piecing together several ideas in photoshop; here are my designs in favour of being the zines official cover. Feedback from a lecturer included the idea of maybe using a more hand rendered circle shape as a background, rather than the digitally painted shape. All is well but it takes the hand rendered feel away from the texts.

Zine- insert ideas

Made originally from potato stamps, these were used because of their effectiveness and in order to show the variation of media available in my work. I scanned them in and took them into photoshop, which enabled me to change the brightness and contrast as well as adding some digital graphic devices. The zine is purely black and white so my palette was minimal, the stamps are black and I quite like them that shade too so a contrasting white background really helped the stamps to stand out. As can be seen, I tried to add some grey colours to the mix, but I'm unsure how I feel about them so these probably wont get used in my final outcome.

Design to Sell

 Here are some of the texts for my design to sell project, for copyright reasons I have added the publishing company and song writer of each lyric. Not all of them will be put to use but these are my favourite so they all stand a chance!
The idea is 1940-50 songs which are uplifting and for me these are exactly that! They are songs I would listen to as a child with my dear granddad. My intentions are to print them onto notebooks and postcards as part of a design to sell project. The next step is to find a continuous style of arrangement and apply it to the cards and notebooks.