This project really brought about a new experience. As it was a first time for me to design and make a zine from scratch, and also dealing with InDesign, which I had never even accessed before. Another obstacle that I was facing was to what did I actually want to put into my Zine.

Shirley initially said to just make the Zine about all of my past work in 2D, and I guess it would’ve been a lot easier to just work with that as I wouldn’t have needed to create and illustrate anything else. I figured to put every single one of my projects into the Zine, so consulted Shirley about the layout of the project.

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She provided this really good layout guide of what my Zine should look like.

I went on to see how I should frame each of my projects. I mostly just researched different Zine examples, and there were many examples in Pinterest.

BUT, I honestly felt that I could do a lot better than that, and that my Zine might not be very interesting if it’s just about my work from the previous 2D projects. Also, it was pretty hard to have a continuous narrative or idea throughout the Zine, as my previous works didn’t exactly have much link between them.

THUS, the idea of doing a Zine about Corgis came to mind! And instead of just putting pictures, I thought why not illustrate every corgi picture in the Zine.

A good practice indeed!

Then I went on searching for what exactly I should put into the Zine about Corgis, and I noticed people are always looking at how the Corgis are all so short and stubby, very much focused on its outlook. So what better way to appreciate the Corgi breed, than to make a Zine about the facts of Corgis! I went on to search more facts about corgis, and filter out the facts which I could illustrate better.