Photography of my zine
One of our last sessions of the term allowed us to explore the making of our own zine, using images of ourself and numerous tools to create a self portrait. Each section of the zine had a different task; one out of emojis, one out of half-tone patterns, one using a scanned in image of ourself... etc. I was pleasantly surprised at how I enjoyed doing this - I was thinking it might be a bit embarrassing creating content based around your self, but I found it quite light-hearted as everyone was doing the same.
I chose to keep my drawing minimal as I wasn't comfortable drawing people, so kept something that was based around my project at the time, in a very similar style. This way I could create something cartoon like and insert detail in my clothes, what I was holding (I drew myself with a make up brush and my stuffed toy)
Although this wasn't my speciality in any sense, it was nice to sit around and cut out different emojis, bits of paper, to create a portrait of myself and see everyones interpretations of the brief.
In response to the zine, I created postcards/business cards around the designs I'd done. Using a colour scheme similar to my website and something that really stood out, they'd be very minimalistic, textured, which was exactly what my work was. My favourite one was one of the last ones I did, using the cartoon sketch of myself to create a pattern and keeping the text as basic as possible. I actually really loved doing these, and considered making them official business cards, as they had a quirky, yet professional sense to them.
