Category Archives: Work Play Work

I thought the crit was really interesting. I thought it lacked criticism and discussion somewhat, and could really have done with more structure and thought given to how much time each student was allocated. Because just like each crit in first year, the first few students get to talk for about twenty minutes each withContinue reading “Work Play Work – Crit”

Click HERE to view the full art-directed zine taken from Gabby’s original. Once you’ve taken a look at it, come back here. This is a very small version of all the pages together, to refer to if you’d like while you read my notes. NOTES. The narrative that started speaking to me in this zineContinue reading “A Short Stay in Hell: Full Zine”

I was sitting down to work on my zine – I’ve actually started referring to working in my head not as work, but as “Fucking around and finding out” – and I hopped onto Nieves.ch to take a look at some examples of good and interesting composition. I particularly liked Perks and Mini’s 100 pageContinue reading “Nieves.ch explorations”

Below are images of the full zine, but storage limitations on WordPress have meant that they’re a little compressed. I encourage you instead to click THIS LINK and view it in full quality on Issu.com!

I was arranging the pages I made into the zine, trying to create a good narrative, when I realised I really was seeing a scene – from start to finish – in my head. I scrambled to open a sticky note and wrote, scrolling through my zine as I did so. This piece is notContinue reading “Naughty List: Creative Writing”

The next steps will be to consider whether the zine will benefit from spreads that are more half-and-half composed, or whether this sprawling, atmospheric thing I’ve had going is working really well for it. I’ve designed the spreads with a simple colour scheme in mind already, to keep things simple with myself – black, red,Continue reading “Naughty List: Initial Spread Ideas”

Below is the work from The Proficient Demon, created without thought or judgement. Today’s task is to collage, mix, match and experiment – and I’ll update with what I get. I had good fun with this!