Narrative - (Text and Image) Making my zine

After writing down my ideas for my narrative, creating my type and monoprinting my baby photos it was now time to start adding all the different elements together. Something I needed to consider was my audience and how I wanted to educate people that might be a bit ignorant to non-visible disabilities and that I'm creating this zine because it exposes people to new important ideas that they might not have ever heard of otherwise and because it can explain complicated ideas in the simplest way.

I started by creating a A3 canvas on photoshop and added grid guides so I knew where each page needed to be, having this guide was very helpful and made creating the narrative so much easier. 

The text layer 

I would go as far as saying this was the most important layer of the whole zine. This layer contains all the text for the entire narrative. Since I had scanned in my hand cut lettering I had to cut and place each individual letter and place it perfectly to create sentences. Since I was planning on screenprinting this and my letters are already inspired by Rob Ryan I thought it was appropriate to use this type over the letterpress I had made. 

Blue Layer

For this layer, I used the brushes I had made from the mark making pages in my sketchbook. Adding the pop of colour was inspired by my experimental pages in the sketchbook.

Grey Layer

Another layer where I used my make making brushes. I needed to separate the layers so I could have more than one colour while screenprinting. 

Mono Print Drawing Layer

This layer was created by all of the baby photos I had monoprinted and then placed in this certain way to create my narrative. Having the images and text two separate colours was something very important to me as I don't want either to get lost. My monoprinting was heavily inspired by the heroes workshop and the values I have because of the heroes I picked. 

Protest Banner

The protest banner is just the finishing touch I wanted to add to the zine. Zines normally have a poster of some sort on the back of them so inspired by the protest banner workshop I attended I decided to add my banner to the back of the zine. Its the final message from the zine and really brings everything together. It is made in the same way I created the story for the zine, using the mark making brushes and my hand cut text.