Doctor Who celebrates its 60th anniversary next month. I collected some quotes from the Doctor in a zine…with random hipster photos. 🤭 Saturated colors, vintage objects, and a soft tone—this style of photo was all over the internet in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Here are photos of some of the pages.
“Work in Progress” includes process photos and notes about how I made some of my zines. Not tutorials. More like DVD commentary, but for zines.
I designed this in Canva and printed it through Mixam. (Not an ad, haha. I like sharing how I make stuff. Hence, this zine.)
Here are photos of some of the pages.
“Modern-day Sisyphus” is a mini zine about 21st century tasks that never go away.
The zine is inspired by Sisyphus, a figure from Greek mythology who is tasked with rolling a boulder up a mountain, only for the boulder to roll back down every time he reached near the top.
The zine lists modern chores with the same repetitiveness, like washing dishes, doing laundry, and taking out trash.
Years and years ago, I wrote blog posts called “Weekend Roundup” where I shared links to sites I thought were interesting. I stopped doing that because of less time spent browsing online, more attention going to social media, and also…more websites felt new and interesting back then, compared to now.
So I stopped doing Weekend Roundup.
But now that I have a monthly newsletter, I brought back sharing things I find interesting. Sometimes it’s websites and it’s also videos, TV shows, books…whatever I come across that I think is worth sharing.
I included a handful of links in my October newsletter. You can read it over on Substack. And subscribing is free, if you’d like to get future newsletters directly in your email inbox.
I watched Elemental without knowing what to expect, because Disney’s marketing missed the mark (again). But I liked the movie overall. One of my favorite parts was seeing how each character used their element, like Ember inflating a hot air balloon.
I wanted to draw the scene with the hot air balloon floating over the city. I started with a pencil sketch. It’s rough. I wanted to figure out the foreground vs. the background and where the balloon was in the sky, in relation to the skyline.
Here’s a photo of when I was painting the larger areas. I simplified colors and composition (all those buildings!) because it’s so much detail.
Here’s the finished drawing.
