10/5 | 30h
It’s not uncommon for me to start a project thinking that I know what I want to do, and drastically change my mind half way through a project. Normally this is something that I tend to have a lot of fun with. I let my creative process take me wherever it wants to take me at whatever time it decides is the best time to switch gears. In this case, it wasn’t so much a change of direction but a change of pace. I decided that with the amount of pages I had allotted to the zine, as well as my own knowledge on the subject of Dungeons&Dragons not being as in depth as it would like to be, that I would focus on the one part of the process that I actually knew very very well.
Character creation.
This decision still falls within the spectrum of what I had originally been wanting to do. My goal was still to teach the basics and rules of something related to D&D, I had just slowed the pace down to the very beginning of the D&D process.
One thing that I did to spruce up the zine was create little illustrations.
Initially, I had wanted to print these pages on the tea stained paper that I had made. However, running it through my printer a second time caused a very casual meltdown of my printer that refused to print for a solid two days until I took the thing apart. Additionally, the pages I wanted to print on were a little too large for her to handle, so I resorted to printing in town after scanning the stained paper in.
Sending it off to printing seemed to be an ordeal, however, as for some reason my files were shifted in the process of preparing to ship. I still have no idea how this happened, considering I took extra care in making sure there were no hyphens or widows in my working file.
Let’s take a look at some of my pages and find some of the mistakes that were made during the printing process.
Let’s look at two pages side by side in my working file versus the pdf that was sent back.
It is entirely possible that I sent the wrong file off to the printer and didn’t find out until it was too late. Understandable. Could definitely be my fault. But that doesn’t make me less disappointed in the outcome. By the end of the year I would like to have the zine re-printed, and make sure that it is in perfect condition. Printed on that cool tea stained paper I wanted to work with in the first place.
My follow up post will be images of the finished, printed zine. Hopefully in the near future, there will be images of an updated version!
Mellvetica 