Are you ready to explore your city? Are you up to publishing a Guide Zine of your city?
This class is about exploring your cities and to appreciate what your cities have to offer. Appreciating the city where you live makes living a lot more meaningful. It’s not all about the grandiose monument or a place with a very significant history, but it’s also about the small, close to your heart places that matter, whether it’s a small cafe around the corner or a restaurant where they cook the best ramen. Or even a place where you visit often but maybe haven’t even realised how special this place is up until now. Together, we will explore these places, creatively represent them with simple and fun illustrations and making them into a Guide Zine.
This class is for everyone who would like to explore their cities and publish a Guide Zine. I will be illustrating on an iPad, using an Apple Pencil and the Procreate app. But you can use anything you have whether it’s a pencil, pen, coloured pencils, crayons, watercolours, anything that you are comfortable using, just keeping in mind that we will be using a thin paper for easy folding. If you will follow this class using Procreate, it would be good to have the basic knowledge of Procreate. I will be sharing with you some of my Procreate stamp brushes and the fonts that I have created to use in your project if you wish. I will also be providing you a zine template.
Creating zines can be addicting. Once you get hold of the process, you can easily create zines on different topics. Examples are the illustrations I created for organisations about COVID-19 and oral hygiene turning into zines. Or just for fun like the cute, K-Pop zines or a quick Christmas recipe zines.

Introduction

Class Project and Resources

Finding Inspiration

Planning The Zine Set Up

Illustrating

Placing Illustrations on The Zine

Printing and Folding

Final Product

Final Thoughts

The things I love to do in my city of Helsinki

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