This is the first zine I've made and I've learned a lot while making it. Im viewing it like a little test run. There's a lot of things I'd do differently. especially the actual printing of it. The way I did it was a multi-step long , backwards ass, disaster that involved 3 different stops and tears.

Basically I converted the original all physically done copy to digital and exported it in .tiff . When I brought that to office depot to get it printed, I learned that office depot doesnt take tiff files. okay, then you'd go home and convert them to pdfs or jpegs or something right?
well, for a bunch of reasons I couldn't. So I went to the nearest best buy and asked if they could convert it for me, obviously they couldn't. I then ended up at the library and spent $11.30 printing my zine there.

I also did not know how to format my digital copy to have the pages be double sided. so i also had to print more paper to glue the two sides i needed to be double sided.

I'll just say I put a lot of love into making it.

I plan on making many more zines. The stuff I'm writing and drawing are already better than this one. I have a lot more ideas I want to put in this format! :D

(Moar notes at the end)

Another note on this. when i showed off the original draft copy to my friends at a late halloween party. I was SO HORRIBLY NERVOUS!! While setting up the party I got so embarrassed showing it to the host. I took it out of his hands and put it back in my bag.
When everyone else showed up I tried to act casual about it when I passed my work to the closest person to me. (i was sweating and probably wide eyed like an owl) but it ended up being received pretty well for this being my first attempt.
My little booklet was passed around and read with attention and compliments. One of my friends ripped up shreds of paper with notes, critiques and reassurances on them and used that to bookmark most pages. When I went home I glued all the notes on a page so as to not lose them later.

without context this whole side note reads as neurotic. which is probably because I am and because of that I don't show off my work a lot. it's just really really nerve wrecking for me. Most of the time I avoid it at all costs, but now I feel like branching out more and showing off what I love doing more! (which also explains the revamping of my website)

I'm still a pretty nervous person, who's cautious of being confident in myself and takes criticism straight to my heart, but I'm trying to find my middle ground. eventually,,,