Sixteen Skies Zine
I still have to do my monthly report but I finished the zine! The pages were drawn in square format sketchbook so to make it printable I decided to format it in A5. If you haven't been here before, in an effort to give myself a low-stress project I could do after office hours, I drew the sky from my bedroom for sixteen days.
The 12-pages zine is available to peruse here on my itch.io page.
After asking people back and forth, I have decided to make the web version free and the printable files downloadable for $3.25. Honestly though, if you have been here before you know me. If anyone from Bear sends me an email saying they want a copy and include one link to a post they like on Bear so I know they see this, I would be happy to send one.
I've always wanted to do urban sketching and I think this project eased me into actually trying. Though, I was thinking to take it slowly, maybe drawing from the LGS I frequent. I also want more practice with wet media before I actually venture out. The sand pit is really helping me to keep up with everyday creative practices. By keeping all my tools visible and within reach, I can talk myself into sketching a bit inbetween chores, or make random doodles as I watch shows.
Now that the project is done though, I can't help but wonder if I got carried away again and it was overproduced. Maybe I shouldn't have tried too hard and let the rustic zine feel came through with odd formats? Maybe cropping and collaging the images was too much? I tried to color-correct a bit because the scanned pages felt too washed out. Oh well.
A VN project for No Dialogue Jam in April, then maybe I'll do another zine. I admit, although I was apprehensive about actually showing my drawings, it's nice to release something where I'm not doing writing or coding. It's a nice change of pace.