#trad art zine

[hadespaint]

I can finally share my pieces for @aaweddingzine! This was a really fun project, and I loved being able to create so much for it. Make sure to check out all the amazing work everyone did on this zine!

[fratboystrider]

tear the petals off of you

Canon Heartstrings lore: Dude & her parents pt. 2

While her parents did leave, Dude doesn’t outright resent them for the act. She’s mad them for not coming back for her, but ultimately she misses them more than anything. This is because she primarily holds on to the good memories she has and stories she was told. Her grandmother never spoke ill of them. It hurts her very much, but she tries her best to understand why they up and left. She knows it’s not that she wasn’t loved. She just doesn’t understand why that love wasn’t enough to keep them around. What she doesn’t know is that the main reason they even called her was because her grandmother forced them to.

She very much idealizes the relationship they had as teenagers. She was heartbroken to say the least when she found out they remarried and didn’t bother including her in the weddings let alone their new families. Of the 5 younger siblings she has, she doesn’t really have a relationship with any of them. They know of her, very little, and have never interacted with her. It’s probably for the best, because if she actually sat down and saw that they had the capacity to be good parents but just didn’t do that for her then she’d be absolutely devastated.

[straykenzsick]

[clintcatalyst]

Poem by Lake Vajra From my ‘zine As If  — Issue Two, 1993 

[mildredpierce8]

Gothic Zine narrated by my OC Shelley. This is the last zine for the next couple of weeks. I'm working on some other projects, but for now enjoy this zine I've made :) (also thx @date-mate-re-animate for the movie recommendations found on page 9. :) Have fun!!!

thx for reading :)

[l-o-r-d-4]

Follow my instagram

[skunkes]

[tinybrie]

Guessed who trapped themselves into writing multiple ToT oneshots

[smieska]

Praying to the art gods that I Do Not keep the new 11x17 format printer-that-can-print-on-watercolor-paper in the closet left to be barely used and collect dust

[attyrocious]

its trad art weekend. have a law warm up before i go to zine dungeon

[the-ria]

In the spirit of trying something new to get out of my art block, I decided to return to trad art and make a new zine!

As soon as I saw this post I knew that wanted to create something fun and inspired by my own relationship with My Chem's music. Which in turn led me to this idea :D

I hope you like it and if you see any spelling mistakes, no you dont 🫥

Also I'm including printable files for standard A-sized paper, so feel free to print out and fold yourself a copy of the zine!

@mcrzines

[hadespaint]

I'm finally able to show my page for @onceuponaturnaboutzine !

My piece was based on stories of fairies as they appear in the works of Shakespeare. All of the plants that appear in the piece were chosen for their symbolic meanings in relation to Dahlia and Phoenix's relationship. I even made a little diagram explaining them that I'll put under the cut

transcript in case you can't read my terrible handwriting:

Wisteria: poisonous

Datura: poisonous, disguise, defeat

Baby's breath: poisonous, sweet love

Musk rose: referenced in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the standard garden rose of Shakespeare's time

Salix alba (willow): enchantment, love spells

Foxglove: poison, deception

Rosa carolina: love is dangerous

Bleeding heart: poisonous, love, it just looks sick as hell

Pink dahlia: femininity, love, I can't not include them

Ranunculus: attraction

Burgundy dahlia: betrayal

Rhododendron: poisonous, danger

Ranunculus sardous: madness, invitation

Sweet william: scorn, treachery, broken hearted men

Mallow: consumed by love

[fratboystrider]

9/20

strangers

[eddiediaaz]

from fanlore: A Big Bang is a specific type of challenge usually involving long fics and accompanying artwork. This type of challenge is a reprise of the old zine tradition of collaboration between artists and writers for internet fandoms. Most Big Bangs have a similar format: Writers sign up to take part in the challenge and begin writing stories. When the early drafts of the stories are available, each one is assigned one or more artists, or artists might claim stories from posted summaries. Artists create fanart to go along with the story. This art can take the form of illustrations, manips, photo collages, vids, etc.

i would really really love to see such an event in the fandom, so i am testing the water and see if people would be interested. fic requirement would probably be ~20k words minimum. and the deadline wouldn't be until around october 2024. please signal boost/reblog if you can!

[ofsilentthings]

2024 Writing Wrapped!

I'd like to provide some of my statistics from Ao3, some highlights of the writing year as well as hopes for 2025.

2024 Ao3 Stats:

kudos: 605 to 677  (+72)

comment threads: 92 to 131    (+39)

bookmarks: 196 to 201    (+5)

subscriptions: 22 to 73   (+51)

word count: 137,853 to 213,536    (+75,683)

hits: 13830 to 15701     (+1871)

Finished The Vampire Ascendant's Wife @ 138,915 words. I loved Rickard the accountant's descent into the mad world of Astarion and Taviana (Tav) Ancunin.

Favorite hit was A Discourse on Art and Fear. I do some really neat things with poetry and prose, with a voice that I think I want to continue using in my writing. Also I felt the Cazador characterization for me finally clicked.

Wrote mostly Baldur's Gate, then Bloodborne, with one Elden Ring story.

Highlights:

Did a large (for me) amount of commissions to pay for a tooth replacement. Learned how to manage multiple projects at once, as well as getting better with word estimates.

Funny enough also I was hit for the first time with commissions that were obvious spam and/or obscenely large for the job. Had to turn them down even though it would have meant money. I am still a person with a busy life outside writing after all.

Created work for my first zine (Bound By Blood: an Astarion Zine) to be published early 2025. This story is done but it's a secret until the zine is released. Worked with beta editors and thought my work improved immensely. Also worked with a visual artist in a collaborative effort which was fun.

Also participated in my first Winter Bang BG3 writing event. Also waiting for February 2025 to publish when everyone else releases their pieces. Another collaborative effort with a visual artist too.

Hopes for next year:

Finish my weird BG3/Bloodborne crossover fic Beyond Blood and maybe Let the Sunshine In (BG3)

Work on some original fiction.

Read more books! I only read 10 or so. I have a neat little journal to help me record my reviews. 

Support more indie publishers. There are so many good stories out there that aren't carried by trad publishers for one reason or another. I wish to support them when I can.

Thank you all who have ever read any of my writing. I hope to see you in 2025 and beyond!

[bisonaari]

Hi! I'm Bison (she/her but I'll take any pronoun really)

For my Jukka tag, follow the duck 🦆

For my art tag, click here!

For my learning finnish tag, bison learns finnish

For Käärijä fanzine info (until I make actual social media for it), please check my fanzine tag!

OFFICIAL ZINE BLOG IS @kaarijazineofficial

Current stage of fanzine developpment: All done forever 🥰

About me under the cut!

I'm Bison, but my usual username on other social media is Crevettola! (That'll teach me a lesson about making a username five seconds before going to bed lol). My first name would be Eléa !

I'm 31 years old, Canadian/Belgian/French citizen (yes)

I work in the animation industry :) I'm a 2D rigging artist (I make lil cartoon puppets that I don't neither draw myself nor animate myself lmao, I'm just in an organigram and hierarchy software all day)

Mini teeny tiny faq:

@i-wasnt-ready-for-this asked about my art journey:

Oh boy hahaha. So I'm a multicrafter kind of person. I embroider (cross stitch), sew, knit, crochet, and plenty other stuff. When I don't draw, I usually do one of those.

I've always made art since I was a little kid, I made comics, tried to join zines when I was a teen (that didn't work out but I still have the pages somewhere lol), and then my mom asked me to stop art to go into science. So I stopped drawing for 6 years, then fell into Undertale and started drawing fanart like there was no tomorrow and joined animation school for 3 years. (If you're curious you can watch my thesis film here, but be warned, all of it was done by myself so that's why the animation sucks ass lmao. I gave all my focus to rigging to land a job in this area of the industry. Which I did, thanks to this film!!!) That school burnt the living hell out of me and gave me hand injuries, so I can't draw trad anymore or even write more than two minutes without having to stop because of pain. So when I graduated in 2020, I stopped drawing almost completely. Then Käärijä happened and I'm back at it I guess??

Realistic art is my fav thing in the world, transcribing reality in 2D dimension is really my first passion in art. My dad introduced me to charcoal on paper at an early age, and I just never grew out of it I guess haha. People are my fav thing to draw. I find it so relaxing, I'm not a creative person whatsoever as in I don't like to INVENT stuff, so just transcribing shadows without thinking about it gives me peace of mind.

Two examples of the portraits I made before getting back into it this year

This drawing of my mom (graphite on paper) I made in 2009 (I was 18), and a drawing of my grandma (chinamarker on paper) while I was still attending school in 2019 (I was 28)

@c28hunter asked about first, my fav Käärijä outfit. And that's the WORST question can't I just say that I love all of them??????

But really I think the green bolero is just too much of my aesthetic to not reply with that hahaha. Second place would be that damn leather jacket it's BEAUTIFUL

Second question, my fav type of bread. And I a french person I take this answer extremely seriously. My ultimate favourite type of bread is

OLIVE FOUGASSE

Like I never buy any because I know that I'm gonna eat it all by myself in two minutes