So the weeks leading up to Canzine, I’ll be doing these preview posts, to show what I’ll have at my table. The first photo is a look at what my first zine looks like. It’s filled with drawings, no words.
I’m also going to be selling handmade notebooks and stickers. The following is just a prototype. The books are pretty small, 4.25″ x 5.5″ and the paper I used is thick bristol vellum, so they are suitable for light wet media (watercolour washes and gouache mostly) I also bought glow in the dark sticker paper and wanted to see if my printer will handle it. I’m happy to report that it did and I’ll be buying some more sheets tomorrow so I’ll have a bunch ready for Canzine.
That’s all I’m showing for now. Stay tuned for more.
So I finished the first week of school. It was hectic, thats all I’m going to say. I ended up dropping a class, Graphic Design for Illustrators because I thought it was pointless for me to take it considering I’m still in the GD program and I’m doing a lot more in depth things then that class offered. So now I only have 6 classes instead of the 7, and I managed to condense my schedule to fit into three days. That means I have a 4 days weekend (whoop!) and I won’t have to spend money on lots of tickets of bus passes. I’m happy with my schedule now and I think its going to be a good semester.
Today I hit a couple of thrift stores with my friend, in search of old children’s books and National Geographic. I find that they are the best for collages, especially nature books. We actually ended up finding a whole series of animal books, with really awesome vintage photos. I can’t wait to do something with them. I also found a really nice old copy of Aesop’s Tales for only 99 cents! I always loved those stories and I’m thinking that for one of my zines I’ll do a little accordion style book based on one of the stories. After we hit Deserres to get some cheap art supplies. They’re having a huge sale for Back to School so I wanted to stock up on spray varnish and little tiny cradle board that were only a $1. Good Day.
I’m geeking out a little bit because I just ordered my first business card. With rounded corners! I hope they’ll come in soon, I’m so excited. For now I got 500, I thought that was a decent amount. I didn’t out my address on them because who knows where I’ll be. I’m also geeking out about the fact that Apple finally came out with a 64GB iTouch. I want it so bad but honestly, I had my iPod for three years now and it works perfectly fine. Its filled to the brim with music, so maybe for now I’ll just have to uncheck some songs. I’m sure by the time my battery dies, the iTouch will be cheaper.
So school starts Tuesday. Even though I just finished my summer classes like two weeks ago, I must say, I’m still super psyched to be back. I’m going to have 7 classes though (normally its 5 per semester) and I’m trying to get a job within the school and also start some serious freelancing, so I’m pretty sure sometime in the next 4 months you’ll see a post here that will seem maniacal and won’t make any sense. if that happens, it means I’ve officially lost my mind.
Monday I went to another session of Dr. Sketchy’s, with a Tank Girl theme. Honestly, it was my favourite one. I got some awesome poses and and drawings, and the music was sweet, and the MC was as dirty as ever. It’s become my new favourite thing to do on a Monday night.
Yesterday, my dad and my sister went to Buffalo to some outlet mall. We ended up buying winter coats and freakin’ 4 pound of Lindt chocolate. FOUR POUNDS. It’s like an early, gourmet Halloween for me. It was a pretty epic trip I must say.
Today I came back home, and cleaned up half of my apartment and then spent the rest of the day doing roughs for zines, commissions and a birthday present for a friend. I’ll post what I made after I give it to her in case she reads this!
I finally got registered for Canzine! I have so much to do, I hope it all pays of the in end. I need to order business cards and postcards soon, but I’ll have to wait until OSAP transfers my funds to my bank account (starving artist no more!)
I’m leaving you with Club Feet’s ‘Teenage Suicide”, a song that played at a previous Sketchy session.
