Zine Final Pages – Final Outcome

Below shows the final outcome for this project, due to the lack of available facilities and the timing of this project I was unable to create my zine physically, therefore I created these digital mock ups of what the layout of my zine would look like, showing my character illustrations paired with the typography pieces …

Zine Pages – Typography

To go alongside my six illustrations, I wanted to include pages that would keep the pace of my zine moving, without being too overwhelmed by detailed drawings. I also wanted to create an element of narrative. My original zine plan included typography pieces, I had originally intended for them to be more detailed and include …

Zine Illustrations – Final Illustrations Process

As well as the previous illustrations of Shuri, Princess Bubblegum and the two original characters, I created more illustrations to add to my zine. I decided that in total I would have six illustrations, three fan arts and three original character pieces. Below show the process for the final two illustrations. Mikasa Ackerman The first …

Zine Illustrations – Original Characters

Following the same process as my previous illustration I wanted to create another scene. This time I wanted to draw a girl going to the cinema, seeing a superhero movie. While this might seem like a simple every day event, women often face so much judgement and misogyny for seeing movies in this genre and …

Zine Illustrations – Original characters

To go alongside my fan art illustrations in this zine I also want to introduce some original characters and concepts to make the zine all the more relatable. I wanted to draw women in a range of different scenarios, showing them enjoying their hobbies and work without judgement or misogyny. I want to draw women …

Beginning Zine Illustrations – Process

When starting the illustrations for my zine following the research into different artists that inspire me, I was encouraged to create scenes that showed women being confident, having fun, enjoying their hobbies and interests in a way that is completely far from any male gaze. I decided to start with drawing fanart of some characters …

Artist Inspiration for zine visuals

Before creating the visuals for my zine, I had in mind some artists that I wanted to draw inspiration from. I want the colour palettes of my zines to include a lot of pinks and purples to embrace and include a feminine element throughout the zine. Often when looking at women in male dominated spaces, …

Integrated Project – Characters and content planning

For my zine, I want to include a range of different visuals that work together to create inclusive and empowering imagery for women who enjoy nerd culture to experience. I want to include a series of fan art of some female characters that me, and other women admire and highlight them in a way that …

Integrated Project – Zine Plan and Beginning Visuals

The next stages of my integrated project are to continue finding visual inspiration and start creating my own visuals in response to my research. I know that for my outcome I want my zine to represent women in nerd culture, celebrating women who like comics, films, gaming, anime, science fiction, etc, areas of interest that …

Integrated Project – Padlet Review Feedback

To help us gain some peer insight and opinions on our projects so far we had a review on Padlet. We had to post an image of our work and other students would leave us feedback to take further into the project. I have an idea and direction I want to focus on for this …