made my first zine!
Yes, the title is a Hamilton (2015) reference.
I procrastinated before finally working on this 3 days prior to an art market. A full circle moment! (Highly not recommendable)1
There's something satisfying about doing the thing that you've always told yourself to do. On one hand, I wished I didn't allow myself to wait for this long, but on the other hand, it finally happened. Yay me!
The real-time procrastination makes this funnier somehow.
I always wanted to make a zine, but there seems to be a ready supply of excuses that prevent me from doing so. Not this time! I swore to myself that I'll make a zine for this one art market that I'm looking forward to, no matter what.
It's an 8-page comic about procrastinating for an upcoming art market. How apt! Featuring a new sona design, one that was carefully crafted under the panic of a looming deadline.
What went well ⋆˚࿔
- Simplification: I gradually learned that with less time comes the pressing need to draw less lines. I wonder how can I translate this design language into different shapes?
- The overall composition: The limited pages + time constraints + simple design really pushed me to consider what would be more interesting with these factors in mind!
- A lesson in getting over it and moving on: The blessing and curse of digital art grants you with the undo button. At some point I finally told myself that THIS IS IT. There will be NO MORE changes.
What can be improved ⋆˚࿔
- Time management: Do I work better under pressure? In that case I need an earlier "fake" deadline (even more so than the actual one) to adhere to. And I need to believe in that deadline.
- Folding and cutting the zine: This gave me more trouble than I expected. The pages don't line up, mostly due to the additional borders on the pages (hopefully there's a borderless option). Also cutting the middle part gives me this weird, curved area that isn't lining up with the other pages???
All my gripes about the wonky folding and the ugly cutting just somehow disappeared when I finally got the finished zines in my hands. Tactile hits differently I guess; holding my art in my hands brings me a level of joy that just doesn't compare.
Hopefully, I can make more!
The thing about rushing is that you're likely to make mistakes. Like typos, which I hope to fix before re-printing...↩