Project 4

Monday, April 25, 2016 

The zine theme "Thoughts at 3 AM" made me think back to when I was a child. I wanted my zine spread to depict the outer body experience you face when you are a child and you are dreaming at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not fluid, most of the time it does not make any sense and sometimes you are not always as you appear.

My zine is made to be abstract and unique in the different elements of tonalities and colors that it utilizes. For my photoshop element, I edited the photos of the girl, who is my younger sister, both are different photos of her and I used different effects within photoshop to create the outer body feeling. The backgrounds were also edited within photoshop using different effects to spin and blur certain aspects of the background.

My illustrator element is the very outer background of all the different paint colors. I hand drew this background and originally designed it within illustrator to show the vibrance behind the child's mind that seeps through their dreams.

Lastly, my non-digital element I wanted to add a different type of texture, so I scanned in multiple different sized and colored pom-poms to create a fun and added effect to the overall dream.

This is the cover of the class zine. We wanted to create a darker cover and utilize the motion of a clock ticking to represent the time that occurs within thought at 3 AM in the morning. We used photoshop to create the background of a black and white watercolored effect and to place the clock outlining on top. We used illustrator to create the font of the title of the zine and lastly we had Sabrina hand draw the hands on the clock and we used photoshop to have the hands in motion.