For my zine I wanted to depict several activities of gardening. When brainstorming of an idea for this project I was thinking of an activity that could be interesting to focus on. I was inspired by images of people gardening, as well as my own images that I have. For the images I focused on different events such as potting the plants, watering, planting. Additionally, I implemented drawings and photos of hands throughout my zine to illustrate the importance of hands while gardening. For my drawings I used a textured brush to represent the messiness of gardening. In my photoshop drawings, I made the images playful with the overlapping of images.
In this project, I think I was successful with the procreate images. I think if I were to do this project differently I would work on either making the photoshop images stronger, or somehow combine the two. The photoshop images could have contained more images to collage together or combining the two could have led to some stronger images overall. Additionally, I think I could have ordered my images differently in the zine or picked a specific narrative of gardening. I had intentionally planned to do ten images total and have five photoshop and five procreate which left me with two blank pages. I ended up drawing two filler pages for the end but it doesn’t really add much to the zine itself. If I were to do this project again I would create two more images rather than create two filler pages.
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