i felt like i was loosing direction a little bit with my work and got a bit wrapped up in post craftnight funs. i started doing things that were different to what i usually like doing and what i originally said i was going to do from the beginning. i want to keep to my traditional realistic drawings of skulls and not random, cartoony style drawings for the sake of making a zine.
so in conclusion i am going to stick to my original idea and make books that are smaller and more delicate. i also had the idea of putting them in boxes, like a specimen box in museums. but small and delicate like bones are. i love doing little things aswell so it seems perfect.
here is a rough design of what i want to do. a concertina in a box.
box - specimen style as my drawings will be of skulls and bones
concertina - fancy and pretty, reminds me of victorian and vintage
paper - will be vanilla colour
something else i have become obsessed with
is paper punches. the rounded corner one is be
ing used on EVERYTHING. roxy let me borrow one of hers today and when you put it to the corner it leaves a lovely vintage lace feel. especially on the 'vanilla' paper that i have been using to print my illustrations on. i also tried using a lovely blue colour called 'wedgewood' too. but i'm not sure if it's too dark and i dont think it quite has the same effect as the vanilla colour.
this is something that i did post craft night when i was caught up in all the random fun. i obviously kept up with the skeleton theme in 90% of my random zine doodles but it's just not the same as the stuff that i loved doing originally.
