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What creative projects have you been working on?
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I've started making zines!
My most recent one is a mini, one-page zine about the ending of Outer Wilds. I took the final lines of dialogue of one of my favorite characters and illustrated them. Major spoilers for the base game!
"I Learned a Lot" (SPOILERS)
Spoiler-y thoughts
I had a lot of fun working in Illustrator tracing game screenshots to create graphics. It's not high art or anything, but it still felt creative.
Making the Hearthian hand was the most fun - I took a disposable glove and stuffed two fingers into a single finger, making a three-fingered hand. I then took a photo of it against a dark background in the post that I wanted. Once I had the photo on my computer I inverted the colors so the hand was darker than the background and adjusted levels to get things pretty close to black and white. I then used image trace in Illustrator to turn it into a path and fiddled with it a bit to widen the fingers. A fairly simple process, all to avoid having to learn to draw a three-fingered hand! 😅
I remember Zines being huge when I was growing up, back before blogging largely took their place. There were a ton of amazingly heartfelt, funny, politically charged, and incredibly creative ones here in Toronto. Most of the ones I read were LGBT+ focused, a few of which really helped me understand myself better, and made me feel a lot less alone.
And speaking of Toronto based Zines, it turns out there is actually a library dedicated to them!
https://www.torontozinelibrary.org/
I'm going to have to go check it out once it reopens next week to see if I can find some of the old Zines I used to read back in the day. :)
That's so cool! I definitely missed their heyday, but I feel like zines have been chugging along - I know my local library system has a zine section, and there was going to be a local zine fest at one point (not sure if COVID delayed it...).
It's a little intimidating to get into it now, haha. It's like... If you never watched movies until your 30s. And then you realize there's an entire genre with a long history and many unknown touchstones and a new visual language. But I'm having fun in my own way~
This is so cool! Also I loved hearing about your process. Really helps me appreciate the creation of this, not just the final product.
Thank you! I definitely don't consider myself an artist, but I'm having fun doing... art-y things? :D
I made my first candle last weekend, and now I’m looking into ordering supplies to make even more. I’ve always been somewhat interested in it, and I’ve taken a deep dive looking into suppliers and figuring out what temperature to add fragrance, dyes, and do the actual pouring.
I've started dabbling with some generative art. I've always thought it was super cool but never took the time to sit down and try to make my own. I've started out with p5.js, and so far this is the one sketch I've made that I kind of like. A new image gets generated procedurally when you click.
I really like this! Makes me think of very colorful DNA electrophoresis a bit.
Also I've never heard of p5.js - it looks really cool, thanks for sharing!