OUGD602 - PPP - Zine Workshop with Kristyna Baczynski

Today I attended a zine workshop with Kristyna Baczynski, a local illustrator, at the etsy made local fair. She started by giving us a quick overview of what a zine is as well as her rather large collection of zines. Below are a few examples of my favourites.

I really liked the illustration style in this zine and the message that it was trying to get across about the mundaneness of life. Though it had no text it could be read visually, it was really nice to put your own interpretation on something.

The illustrations in this zine were beautifully laid out in comics with equally as qbeautiful messages. It also shows how well a one colour zine can work. 

There were a couple of these vibrant concertina zines that I would argue aren't zines at all. They contained really bold and bright illustrations with seemingly no narrative to them. But the context in which they were created makes them a zine rather than an illustration. 

This zine was my favourite because of the printing process, content and style. The combination of blue and red is very common in illustration I feel but they combine really well. It was all about supernatural things, my favourite page was the one with the cats as familiars. There was just so much character in such a small zine. 

Next it was time to have a go at making our own! She showed us some quick book binding techniques to make a saddle stitch or a staple bind. Then gave us this zine about zine making, containing content pointers, binding methods and much more.

After being inspired by the cats in the Supr Natr zine I decided to do a zine on cats! She had loads of print out of illustrations and magazines that we could collage from. So I decided to take women's figures and draw cat heads on them to anthromorphise them. I named it Feline Fatale as a play on Femme Fatale.

Overall it was a really fun workshop, I learnt a lot about zine culture and how its okay to make whatever you want, however silly it may be. It was really inspiring to be with like minded creatives too and just generally have fun with something.