3D Print Zine - pencils page 1 and 2 (Patreon)

Ok, now that Career Zine is well on its way it's time to spool up the next thing. I've been working on this zine for awhile, I posted the inked 3D printer back in June and the original script and outline for this one uh... a long time before that. 

There are a few different things that I want to do with this zine. First of all, you'll notice that I'm mocking it up as a two page spread. This zine is going to be quite a bit larger (with each page being about the size of a normal sheet of printer paper). I am trying to evoke the "DK Eyewitness" series for this book, which were my absolute favourite books when I was a kid. These pages were absolutely magical to me, opening up each new spread and having such a delicious cornucopia of information and facts. (I was a strange nerdy kid and I decided I want to make books for other strange nerdy kids/people).

To that end I want to draw each element separately, rather than as an entire piece like I normally would. A lot of the final compositing will need to be done in Affinity Publisher, so the printing-technical stuff like that damn 3D printer on the 2 page spread break can be tuned in properly. I spent a bit messing with it and decided it wasn't worth my time... Clip Studio really isn't the right tool to do something like that, and it will have to be redone anyway. My main goal here was to figure out what text goes where and what kinds of drawings would accompany it. 

The other big thing I want to do is switch up the publishing schedule.  There are a lot of zines that I want to do like this on various different topics, but I don't want to chain myself to one topic for a long time while people wait for release like I did with SZ Fast. So, I'm going to work on 4 pages at a time (2 "spreads") and then release them, then work on something else, then maybe come back and expand on this... with topics like these there is always more to say, so I want to keep expanding the offering as I can. Will it ever become a "book"? Who knows, maybe I can release a print edition whenever it gets long enough to make it worthwhile, that's a piece of the puzzle I haven't really sorted out yet.