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Here comes my final post for Foundation 2D.

The final images for my Zine is up! And what’d i’d call it is, my Corbizine. Enjoy!

Starting up, is the front cover of my Corbizine. I illustrated the whole of a Corgi lying down, or as they call it, “Splooting”. The front cover consists of the front half of the Corgi’s side view.

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Next up, is the first spread of my Corbizine. It consists of the first two facts, 1) Types of Corgi Breeds, and, 2) The name “Corgi”.

As you can see, the first fact is vaguely bigger than the second one. This was to show a sense of visual hierarchy between the two, and also it gives a proper introduction into my Corbizine.

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Following that, the second spread consist of 3 Corgi facts. 3) Origins of the Corgi,  4) Corgi Folklore, and, 5) The 11th Smartest Dog. Similar to the first spread, I gave a certain visual hierarchy, where the Corgi folklore illustration is given a background, and is seemingly larger as compared to the other two facts.

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For my last spread, the last 2 Corgi facts, 6) Food for Corgis, and, 7) Corgis as Watchdogs. The layout is similar to the first spread, just push in the other direction, giving it a certain consistency seeing that it’s only an 8-page Zine. But for this spread, the top rule is only made slightly larger than the bottom rule, still giving it a certain visual hierarchy.

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And here comes the last page, the back cover. It connects to the front cover if you lay it out as a spread, to form a whole Corgi! Also, I included my contact details as well in my Corbizine! If you do have any enquiries about my Corbizine, you know where to find me!

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And last but not least, the back poster of my Corbizine, it shows a blueprint of a Corgi! I really got the idea from Toby as well as some visuals online, but I managed to tweak it here and there and illustrate everything on my own. It was certainly a fun experience!

Corbizine Poster

 

And there goes the end of Foundation 2D. Although I could’ve ended it with a Zine about my past works, I just thought it’d be a nice idea to illustrate a whole new one too! Definitely more fun than time consuming!

I’m glad of all that 2D has thought me, certainly thanks to both Prof. Shirley for this semester two, and Prof. Ina for for semester one. I’ve learnt so much from them and hope to implement all that I learnt when i head into my major as well!

 

Thank you so much for all that you’ve taught us, Prof. Shirley and Prof. Ina!

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With the new Corgi idea, I went on to filter out at least 10 rules which I could use and ones that I thought I could illustrate. From there, I moved to trying to see how I could lay them out in the Zine itself. This proved to be quite a bit of problem, as I wasn’t too familiar with how to properly layout the Zine nicely.

I went on to see many examples of Zines online, to get some inspiration.

But in the end, I kind of stuck with something similar to what Prof. Shirley had recommended me to try with my previous idea, but with a little tweaks. From there I reduced the number of facts to 7, which helped in my layout also.

I started to illustrate the Corgis for all the different facts. I used MangaStudio to illustrate most of the illustration. It was actually a pretty fun and interesting process, as I somehow got very used to drawing with a tablet as well.

These below are a few of the starting sketches I did in the program.

From there I moved to colouring in those sketches.

This were the Corgi models that I was going for. I didn’t really have much references for this, mostly because I always liked drawing corgis! The initial idea was to include a background for all the Corgis, but i thought to try and add them into the Zine first to see how i could properly lay them out.

And this came to be the initial layout for my Zine, and as you can see, it’s really bad and it looked extremely plain. I then consulted Prof. Shirley with this, and she guided me with how i could properly lay them out. She gave me the idea of how to properly place every subject in the Zine, and how putting one as a main subject can help capture the audience attention even more.

I went on to try and improve the layout of my Zine with the advice I got from Prof. Shirley. Other than that, I tried including a background for most of them, but it seemed like if I did that, every subject would be fighting for attention.

I tried putting a background for two of the corgi facts.

I tried fitting a background for each of them into the Zine, but they definitely did not stand out much when I did that. So i stuck with giving only the main one, which is the Corgi folklore, whereby the mythical Corgi resides in the woods with the fairies!

This certainly gave each spread one fact that would stand out more, and not make it a competition between each illustration.

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Also, I followed the above layout for my Zine. Because of this, there would be a large poster illustration behind, and I thought of making a Corgi Anatomy Poster for the back.

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This was the initial illustration for the background poster, without the labels of each part. But it didn’t really seem to stand out much. So I got an idea from Toby, and he told me why not make a blueprint instead since a blueprint itself would have labels of each part as well. So with some inspiration of ideas for the blueprint online, I put together and illustrated and edited a blueprint of a corgi! I’ll show it in the next post!

 

 

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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.