Zine - internal images

To produce my final images, I scanned my A5 images in at 600dpi and then enlarged them to print onto A4 cartridge paper. I didn’t want to lose any of my image quality by scanning and rescanning so I thought this was the best way to do it. After printing these images onto cartridge I painted over them in ink to add the cat elements. Some other lines needed to be worked over so that the distinction between scanned areas and fresh ink wasn’t too detectable. 

 

As for the images I was drawing from scratch, I just completed these in my sketchbook and scanned them strain from there. I felt this process was less interesting because I was selecting images of models to draw with the preconception that these need to fit my theme which made me discard some possibilities very early on. Whereas with my previous drawings I was restricted with the fact that I already had these drawings and I need to find an interesting way to make them involve cats. 

I wanted a few breaks in the patters of just one figure or portrait on each page - I had originally planned to include some male faces or some shots of feet but after thinking about this for a while it felt random. It was around this point that I had a brainwave for the name of my zine.. ‘ The Catalogue’ which I thought was appropriate because it takes on the form of a fashion catalogue but it would be very easy to emphasise the ‘cat’ element in the type. Continuing with this thought, I thought a few images could show accessories or jewellery, zooming in on specific parts of the body to break up the repetitive imagery. 

I decided on an ear at first and thought how I could adapt the usual piercings and then I moved on to hand jewellery, thinking of rings and bracelets that could exist. I used asos.com as inspiration for this, both the creation of the accessories themselves but also how they are usually displayed photographically.

Thats my final images for the inside of my zine complete, I just need to make a cover not and think about how I am going to lay these out on InDesign. I am pleased with my internal images, especially because not long ago I was feeling so lost for a topic and I thought my zine was going to end up really plain and boring but now I have an interesting theme and some images that reflect the way I like to draw.