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.

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.

Front Cover.

I have looked at album covers from bands people in the survey said were most popular in this subculture. I have then edited them to say the title ’90s indie’. I have also tried to choose ones that fit with the colour scheme, and if they didn’t really go edited the colours so they do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am yet unsure which cover I would like to use.