Zines, Prints and Dreamcatchers! (Things sold at the exhibition)

Dream Catcher filled with Chokers

Here is my dream catcher that was hung at the exhibition, it consists of a hand made dreamcatcher including ribbon, feathers and string. The items added to it are my chokers. To hold the dream catcher up I decided to use one of my elastic chokers so it would hang and move a lot easier.

This dreamcatcher was on display and none of them were for sale, as they weren't my own design and were purely there for inspiration to my project.

This is the dreamcatcher lay down.

And here it is hung up on a wall, with the chokers dangling from the dream catcher.

Zine #1

I also sold zines at the exhibition and the one shown below is the first one I made.
For this particular zine I wanted to use a variety of lace, dragons, and things associated with my project.

 I tried to use a mix of colours for the front page, I wanted to show my audience the different types of patterns I used for this project, so I created a front cover filled with colour and a variety of patterns. 

For the dragon eye I wanted to use complimenting colours as it has been spread over 2 sides of the book I really wanted the illustration to be subtle so I used colours that were very light (as well as using a lighter purple, even for dark colours I wanted to make it a little lighter.)

 For the first 2 pages I added a quote and dragon. On the third page I added in a quote (the yellow page) that really stood out and suited the image on the next page (the small blue dragon.) I chose to do a small, cute dragon to match the quote next to it. I wanted to almost bring it across as if its that dragon's quote. I also tried to use some bright and cheerful colours, using an aqua blue and a saturated yellow to really brighten up the dragon, with white lace over the top.

The page with the dream catcher on was creating because I wanted to associate dream catchers with my dragons. The reason for this is that dream catchers help you to catch nightmares and with dragons I feel like some of them could be reminded of a nightmare, as well as associating the fact that dream catchers help you dream, and from dream comes fantasy, from fantasy comes mythological creatures, which is what dragons are. I chosen to have the dragon around the dream catcher rather than have it intertwine with it because I didn't want to over complicate the design.

For the page next to the dragon around the dream catcher, I chose to do something a little different as in the sense of not being able to identify what it is right away and having to look a little further into the design to really understand what it is. I painted a white dragon over the top of a purple designed background. I wanted to do something simplistic, and to get a softer feeling for this page, so I created a white dragon to represent the soul of a dragon (hence why it has no eyes, or any patterns on it,) there is almost a narrative to this page in the sense a dragon has died, maybe could use it as a story for future reference?

Finally, for my last page I wanted to do something that represented me as an illustrator, fierce but cute, thats why I've created a dragon that is lying on its back with a crimson red and white. These colours represent romance which I think is cute which is why I chose those colours. I also added in URLs to my social media sites.

Zine #2

For my second zine I wanted to create something simplistic, something to be described as a bold illustration. So I created a chinese dragon filling every page with a part of its body. I feel this worked effectively as it shows only the illustration and makes it look striking. (As well as keep the colour palette limited and sticking with a 2 colour theme, I thought this worked well also.)

Zine Bags

I sold little brown bags with my zines inside them. I thought it would be a good idea to have the zines inside them so my audience didn't have to carry them around or accidentally damage them. The designs on the front of the bags are all associated with my project and all include dragon designs, followed by patterned lace.

Here are the same bags I sold at the exhibition, they were also followed by having rolled up high quality prints of my final illustration. They were sold at the exhibition also, the prints consisted of a variety of different colours (as shown in the post with a variety of different colours of my final piece, those are the ones that have been rolled up.)

For my first time selling things at an exhibition I was not successful in selling everything created but I have set up an etsy account so I can continue to sell them on there. 

https://www.etsy.com/uk/people/katejuryillustration?ref=pr_profile