IT'S STILL SEPTEMBER WHERE I LIVE But I did it!
The zine is done! 
You can view it and download it on my flaming new
Downloads page. Take a little dancing clay Rufo along with you if you will.
This is my first time making a zine. I admit when it comes to these things,
"the sky is the limit" becomes paralyzing to me. You can make a zine about
anything, and endless possibilities is a good way for me to do nothing in the first place, always thinking what to do. I think i talk a bit about it on the zine.
It's about my overall thoughts, experiences and impressions of art, both as an artist and as an enjoyer of it. I'm afraid it might come up a bit as a zine version of the text you see on the homepage of my site
Its name comes from my favourite sentence out of that whole wall of text.
It uses a lot of
personal imaginery, so it might
not be
"wide-audience-appeal-friendly". It also has
potentially gruesome (but still cartoony) imaginery. What can I say. My head makes very vivid visual metaphors
A few things I liked about the process of making this zine: -
Using as many features of the Electric Zine Maker as possible 
These were really fun! I loved mixing and matching and marvelling myself at the results!
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Most of the drawings I made for the zine! The deadline got me in that workflow where I work fast and loose and it still looks awesome. It was a bit agonizing tho: a lot of days where I did nothing, then boom: churning drawings like there's no tomorrow in one day. Maybe that's just how I roll
But I really loved pushing my charas to the extreme as to convey visually these feelings I have about art. My personal favourite? Left page after you flip 3 times. Damn, I want that on a T-shirt
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The added value to my pencil drawings. I have a bit of a complex because I don't digitalize art as fast as those people on social media who can post a fully-rendered digital illustration only 1 hour after Next Big Thing is announced. For the sake of speed, I used pencil drawings with heavy lineart in my zine (zines tend to be printed in black and white, anyway) and I really liked making them and toying with them, and I think they still look pretty good
A few things that could have gone better: -
I really need to familiarize myself with the zine format better. I wanted to add a little flipbook animation to the corner of the pages, but before that, I went to print the zine out myself to see where would it go, and then I realized that, by the way it's cut and formatted, it wouldn't really work as I expected it
So that went out. Perhaps I should try a different format, or experiment with them. I think a flipbook-zine would be a cool idea for next time.
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A lot of thoughts I'd rather not dwell into. Perfectionism-related thoughts. Maybe I should have made this zine more broad-appeal, it kinda feels like I made it for myself. Do we want that? Or is this about self-expression instead? Is it messy in a good way or in a bad way?
Was my dance pattern right? Was my dance pattern wrong?-
If I want to keep making zines, I need to find a lighter way to host them on Neocities. I usually compress the HELL out of my drawings, but since this is meant to be printed, I did not do that this time, and it took a few more MBs than desired. Maybe I'm just being very picky but I'm trying to make the most of my free GB here on Neocities
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I hope the text on the zine is visible enough. I made sure to use readable fonts and give them appropiate values and sizes, and it kinda holds up in printed form. But maybe there's a better way to do this.
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