#DIY art

[handmade-by-me]

"chains"

handcrafted chainmaille bag and pants chains, made from hand-rolled and cut steel wire, 2022

photos taken 2024

[kblyx3]

made me and bro matching anarchy pins :D

[gelbeschafe]

i just released my pattern for “go knit yourself”!

this is my double knit art piece depicting a little guy knitting himself up (:

[psyfis]

weird fishes by radiohead

see my zines at etsy.com/lefthandedzines!

bonus:

[littlehousetomoon]

I was bored so I collected some leaves and painted ghosts on them :p

[ivolederer]

Did you know I made this handy zine to introduce people to the pleasures of multicolor linocut?☺️🫶 I'll revise it soon.

[divyansharts]

[mcrzines]

Zine topic prompt list! 

I'm partnering with the wonderful @void-flesh to bring you the My Chemical Romance Zine Challenge! Get creating with some DIY zine-ing and share your art and words with your friends! Use the tag #MCRzine or @mcrzines so that we can boost your work!

You can create a whole zine solo, or partner with friends for something collaborative :)

We encourage physical zines, but in order to make work accessible as physical copies even for people in places where shipping ain't cheap, we also encourage PRINT IT YOURSELF zines, with files set up for readers to print at home! 

Some notes: 

This is not a contest, or a time limited challenge! This is just to spark people's creativity! 

Related to above: you don’t need to submit anything to us - these are your personal projects! - but we’d love to be tagged so we can see what you made and boost your work!

Polished and professionally printed zines may be cool, but we are encouraging more DIY kinds of work. It's okay if you just have sharpies, glue, and your grandpa's busted xerox machine! Or perhaps the copy machine at your school is unattended? 

Wanna find more examples of others' MCR zines? At @mcrzines I aim to archive My Chemical Romance fanzine history through reblogs and sharing information. Feel free to take a gander! And @void-flesh is working on collecting and archiving physical zines, so get in touch there if you want to add your paper copy to the archive!

Resources

There's many ways to make zines! Here’s just a few ideas for getting started

What’s a zine

How to Make:

A mini zine

An accordion zine

How to make printable half page zines + Canva Template 

Places to Host Digital Zines

Itch.io - Mostly hosts indie games but has a great interface for any kind of downloads, including zine PDFs

Flipstack - An option to display digital only zines 

Other resources

Barnard Zine Library

Stolen Sharpie Revolution

[birdfriend-theband]

Bird Friend's newest single "SALAMANDER" is out today.

[ariature]

I FUCKIN MADE ANOTHER

Sweet cis-teen is such a banger and the final verse is so powerful

[handmade-by-me]

"accidental butthole", hand embroidered around a metal ring, 2022

[sorrymomband]

we are now taking submissions for the 3rd annual sorry mom zine! one of my favorite parts of the year is announcing our zine and seeing all the incredible art you guys make, and im stoked to see what you come up with this year. art of any and all medium and subject matter is encouraged- just make sure it fits onto a page! if you happen to be coming to one of our upcoming shows on the east coast, we will have a zine table set up with collage supplies, but as usual we are also taking submissions through email! every year we donate and match ALL the proceeds we make from zine sales to a different organization, and this year we will be supporting Anera, a non-governmental org that does amazing and necessary work providing aid to the people of Palestine. Submissions are open until august 1st- have fun, get weird, and we can't wait to see what you create!

learn more about anera and how to support here

[pointless-blog-art]

i made a cardboard pen case to go on my journal! i want to make it look pretty eventually but it does its job well!

[tytolito]

stamptember week 1!

my own little twist on the prompts... the theme was "typography" so I only processed "typ" and decided to write a little... poem? idk what you'd call these. let's call them poems so I can call myself a poet

[fablegoblin-workshop]

My very first embroidery work was a christmas gift! ♡ I'm still very proud of it.

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