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a zine without text! all these drawings were made with coloured pencil (non-watersoluble), and then with watercolours

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

under the cut some closeups!

i love these textures

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it's behaving in ways now! i know this is probably par for the course for knitting but it's still cool to me that it wants to be like half the original size now. definitely going to have to cast off this swatch to see how it behaves off the needles

photos get progressively less accurate to the actual yarn btw

i still do things besides zines! like knitting! i'm working on a 3x3 rib gauge swatch in drops flora

this yarn is part sheep wool part alpaca wool, so i think i simply have to make something wearable from it. i'm thinking fingerless gloves. i like fingerless gloves to keep my hands warm while still allowing me dexterity. and i wanted to knit something simple, i haven't knit in a while

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i still do things besides zines! like knitting! i'm working on a 3x3 rib gauge swatch in drops flora

this yarn is part sheep wool part alpaca wool, so i think i simply have to make something wearable from it. i'm thinking fingerless gloves. i like fingerless gloves to keep my hands warm while still allowing me dexterity. and i wanted to knit something simple, i haven't knit in a while

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this is part of my project to make a zine a day this month

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i should do some of these more often

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

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IT HAPPENS HERE

based on this post by @likeareligion (with permission), it really struck something in my brain. good things happen every day. we need to remember that

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

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i'm far from happy with all of this (the grapes are amazing though) but i a) need to post a zine today and b) want to show the process of me learning

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does it still count as a zine when i'm just drawing whatever watercolour thing comes to mind but it's in an 8 page booklet? i say yes

there will be a reblog with closups, because the textures up close are really beautiful and tumblr doesn't want me to add more than 10 images at once

it'd make me very happy to hear which page you like best

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

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does it still count as a zine when i'm just drawing whatever watercolour thing comes to mind but it's in an 8 page booklet? i say yes

there will be a reblog with closups, because the textures up close are really beautiful and tumblr doesn't want me to add more than 10 images at once

it'd make me very happy to hear which page you like best

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

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i'm now going to crochet some more

for more on little guys see this zine

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

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a zine transcribing a post by @spiderversegf , the post being this one. i really like that post, and i wanted to give myself an extra reminder of it

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

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a zine about how to rest

as usual with my zines with advice, i hope it helps some people, i know it won't help everyone

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

also i'll probably put this zine (possibly a version 2 of it) and other printable zines up on gumroad for pay-what-you-want at some point, tell me if you want to be tagged when that happens

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give this a try sometime maybe. it works for me, and i should remember to do it more often. even if not a little creature, put pen to paper and doodle

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if I don't make it back from where I've gone, just know i loved you all along

And what you see is not the dark It’s just the gods upturning inkpots Cos they know what you’ll become

i had a lot of fun with this! text is from Inkpot Gods by the Amazing Devil, if you've not listened to it yet, do it now!

i've had this idea in my head for at least a year, this is the earliest record of it i can find

I've tried executing it at least once before, digitally, and it didn't work out. but yesterday two things aligned, i saw beautiful TAD art by @jakienova and i spilled soda all over my laptop, so digital art wasn't an option.

i considered many other lyrics to illustrate, but eventually went with my oldest idea. i was a little afraid i wouldn't be able to do my imagination justice. i think i did though :)

some progress pictures!

i used acrylic paint from the Amsterdam line by Talens, pigmented ink from Koh-i-Noor, and Van Gogh watercolours, i think also from Talens

all forms of interaction with this post appreciated, but words most of all :)

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a zine about what it's like to make so many zines

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

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empty spider places: a zine without spiders

this zine came to me in a dream

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

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thanks to @littlenosie for reminding me of some things i enjoy saying

this was inspired by me saying thumbsupsing in a discord voicecall, which i don't say with great regularity but i did enjoy it very much. the rest are regular occurrences in my vocabulary

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april