There are as many ways to create, modify & embellish a single-sheet zine as there are artists. How to Create a Single-Sheet Zine Here’s a very simple way to create one: 1. Take any white sheet of paper. Pull one out of your desktop printer, or rip one out of a notebook. (Think of the
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Single-sheet zines can be easy or complex. In my earlier article, Single-sheet Zine Design – Basics, I showed one of the simpler ways to create a zine. What most people do… From what I’ve seen, the majority of people who swap or sell zines take a bunch of letter-sized printed pages (8 1/2″ x 11″)
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A sketchcrawl is a full-day of sketching or drawing in a journal, or on some other art materials such as paper, canvas, etc. It’s usually part of a stroll, alone or with a group, looking at scenery at or near a specific destination. Sketchcrawl Supplies It’s best to use whatever sketching supplies you’re most comfortable with. They
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This is from my archives, when I sent “creative somethings” (including zines) to my subscribers. Recently, I’ve been thinking of restarting this project, perhaps through Patreon. If that sounds interesting to you, let me know. The zines are returning in 2010. They’ll be in three versions: 1. Paper copies (“old school” b&w) for previous subscribers.
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Years ago, I put together this single-sheet zine as a sample for my students in my Artfest ‘Make the World Your Art Gallery’ workshop. Mostly, I was demonstrating different techniques for zines, especially using torn-paper elements in them. It’s not an absolutely fabulous zine, and it’s not even much about art. I simply used topics
Here’s what you need to know about zine layouts… Zine sizes From what I’ve seen, the majority of people who create homegrown zines use letter-sized printed pages (8 1/2″ x 11″) and fold them in half. Each sheet of paper is four pages of the zine. An “average” zine is five to 15 sheets of
For years, I was the list moderator for the botmzines group/list at Yahoo!Groups, I decided to throw together some pages about zines. For starters, the “botmzines” name came from the group that inspired it, the Book Of The Month list… BOTM. So, although botmzines swaps aren’t on any specific calendar, the group started with that
Continued from ATC Tutorial 3 – Memories – Giving it meaning The card was very nearly finished. I liked the colors and the general design of the image, but it needed just a little… something else. I didn’t know what, yet. This is the part of the process that can take forever, since it’s trial
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Continued from ATC Tutorial 2 – Memories – Adding More Layers At this point, the card was pretty… but it had no real theme or meaning to it. And, while “pretty” art can stand on its own merits, I rarely choose to make art without another layer of meaning. So, I started examining the card
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This card was designed to document the creative process when I’m working on digital ATCs. I’ve written four pages–with thumbnail images of each step–to explain how I work on these cards. It shows you how to go from initial idea to finished card. This card, with documentation and HTML work, took about three and a
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