Astronaut contribution

I contributed a page to Pocket Thoughts Annual #3, a collaborative zine that features 25+ zinesters from around the world. Each contributor was welcome to do whatever they wanted with their page. I made this astronaut illustration:

A collage with an astronaut floating in space. The text reads, You wake the thing inside you; you let it see the sun.

I wanted to go for a collage look, but still where I made each part of it. This is what the elements looked like, before I put the page together:

Elements of a collage laid out on a table. Text on white strips of paper, blank strips of white paper, an illustrated astronaut, a cloud drawing, and a piece of black cardstock covered in white dots.

I started with black cardstock and a white gel pen for the stars in the background. If you’ve seen my space-themed illustrations, you know I love drawing stars on black paper. 🙂

I drew the astronaut on white cardstock and the…cloud thing on black cardstock with a black fineliner and white gel pen. Then I cut those out.

The white strips on the left of the page are pieces of white cardstock.

II printed the text using my Phomemo printer. It’s so handy for little things like this!

And then I glued everything into place. To send it in for the zine, I scanned it, so I could send a jpg.

Making this page took a while since I created each element separately, but I’m really happy with how it came out.

process collage