It was a fun challenge to work with the text and images to make something that represents the work as a whole inside, and also something that would be enticing and clear. I also really enjoyed making the book cover. It was actually quite a satisfying process.
I didn’t want those to go into the final piece so I spent a lot of time scanning, printing, tracing, rescanning, and touching everything up in photoshop. I chose their standard colour paper and an image wrap hardcover… because dust jackets often get torn or lost in our house with two young children!Īs my drawings were scattered across several sketchbooks, the double page spreads had join marks. So I eventually chose their 5 x 7-inch trade book, the size closest to my original drawings. But as much as I really wanted to make one of their gorgeous full-colour photo books, I knew it wouldn’t work for my zine collection. I spent a lot of time looking at the Blurb website to work out what would be the best format for my book. You can also sell your creations at Blurb Bookstore. It is perfect for anyone wanting to create their own books, magazines and e-books. But the process of cracking open those feelings in the drawings enabled me to experience more lightness and self-compassion.īlurb is an independent creative book making and self-publishing platform. Putting together such a personal piece of work feels a little vulnerable. How often have I not shared a drawing on social media etc because in my eyes it wasn’t perfect? So I took this as the opportunity to share drawings which are unpolished but lovingly drawn with a lot of intention and put them into a book that I could really enjoy. This quote helped to provide a concept that I feel carries through the work on many levels. I really resonated with the quote by Leonard Cohen: I thought a collection of zines would work as the sketches felt like they had a common thread. When Blurb books invited me to collaborate them and produce my own book, it dawned on me that this would be a great chance to pull these zines together. Often assembled using a photocopier, zines can be circulated widely.
For anyone who is new to the term, a zine is a low-cost method of self-publishing work. Then I realised that the sketches, put together, could potentially work well as zines.
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I started with no plan in mind so my sketches meandered through at least four different sketchbooks.Īt first, I wasn’t really sure how to translate my drawings into a finished piece. Working in graphite and charcoal pencil, I loved freeing myself up to follow a narrative as it unfolded in the drawing. These stories explored the anxiety and grief I had experienced… in what turned out to be quite a light and whimsical way. A collection of short visual stories gradually emerged in my sketchbooks. But when I found myself feeling overwhelmed by life last year, I decided to make time to consciously explore some challenging emotions I was facing.
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