Printing and Folding My Zine.

This is how my zine looked when I had printed it out on A2 paper.

However I hadn’t realised the images I’d had at the top were the wrong way round..

So I had to print it again.

Once I had folded the zine, I added the slit and proceeded to fold into the final product:

I am happy with my zine as a whole, however the 3 illustrations that have scruffier lines let it down a little.

FINAL LAYOUT.

This is the final layout for my zine, which will be printed and folded into the final piece.

I have done this using photoshop, adding each A5 sized final onto an A2 document, this is the size it will be printed so each page is A5.

Presentation.

I thought my fashion illustrations didn’t look professional on the wall, so I decided to frame them.

I had to make the full pieces smaller in order for them to fit in the frame, although this lost some of the image I felt it was better to do this and for them to be presented in this way. I feel the frames gives the overall pieces a more sophisticated and professional look.

Final Fashion Illustrations.

I used the magazines earlier collected to get patterned shapes. I wanted to keep the shapes quite geometric (squares and lines), and also the illustration showing menswear has gray scaled pattern as I wanted one to be monochrome. I have displayed my images together on a wall, with the male in the middle and 2 females either side.

Graphics Tablet and Final Illustrations.

I started to use the graphics tablet to create my final illustrations for the 90s indie zine.

 

For the first few images, I felt the graphics tablet gave a nice finish. However in between using the graphics tablet my laptop broke, when I got it fixed it didn’t work as well as before and the line looked more scruffy. This is something I could not avoid as I didn’t have time to wait and get a new graphics tablet. I also had to get rid of one of my illustrations, and not make it final. I did this in order to fit on the front cover, so there are now 7 illustrations instead of the original 8.

Final Images:

Initial Sketches.

I collected magazines to use in the final collages.

These are my initial sketches for the final illustrations, as I said I wanted them to be simple, also I want the final images to be quite sketchy as I think it gives a nice effect.

Seeing how the illustration looked over magazine paper, as this is what I will be drawing onto.

Ania Leike.

Leike is a fashion designer who works mostly in a sketchbook. The photo’s below are of her ‘sleep paralysis’ collection.

Leike makes good use of layering things together, which is the approach I am going to take with my fashion illustrations. However I would like my illustrations to be simpler than these above, I feel as I will only be doing 3, the simplicity will give a professional look. Leike uses a lot of pattern, which I will include. However her sketchbooks are quite dark and grungy, which is the opposite to what I want.

Breif, Context & Initail Ideas.

Brief: Visually communicate what the country would be like without a monarchy.

Context: Three-quarters of the population want Britain to remain a monarchy, however does this statistic support the monarchy or The Queen? It is an outdated institution that isn’t appropriate for the 21st century. There are many for and against arguments, including things to do with tax, the church and tourism. I personally think the monarchy is irrelevant and that The Queen has no real power.

 

IDEAS:

Queen shopping.

Queen washing up.

Queen smoking.

I would create these using photography and a model dressed up as the queen, i could do many more of this sort with different activities.

After showing my initial sketches to peers, I gained feedback that they liked the idea and thought it would be effective but at the same time humorous. They preferred this idea to the ideas I had involving stamps and bank notes.

60’s Fashion Illustrations.

I looked at some fashion illustrations from the 60s (time of culture):

These are quite detailed illustrations, I don’t want mine to be this detailed in the face or the clothing. I would like them to be simple illustrations, and for the pattern and colour to be shown through the collaging. I would like to collage together colours and patterns then draw the illustration on top of this.

Mod Fashion.

Notes:

 

I have also got some images showing the fashion:

I would like to make some quite arty illustrations, playing around with collage.