The Arcana Zine
This is... not a common project of mine. I want to be blunt: it is here to show my basic skills and because I am proud of this little book. Two years ago I fully managed printing of 400+ copies and merchandise and organized 30 artists. Besides tight work with the printing house and getting to know its life cycle, I made layouts using Adobe InDesign. Vector art for merchandise was made with Illustrator and all other edits with Photoshop. Amazing expirience. Tough. I liked it.
This Jack of all trades made the fanzine very successful. I can say with confidence that I have excellent communicative and learning skills, as well as decision-making in a short time. And I also have many interesting stories in connection with this experience! Love.
- 44 pages
- 36 illustrations
- 30 artists
- Soft Touch cover
- Golden printing
The cover drawn by cover artist, but took many edites (recolor/positioning/redraw/etc).
Golden part is vector art.
I should say here that the main aesthetic I took from The Arcana Game, and this white space with text on it is a plain take from the game.
The blue texture on the pages was made using Photoshop.
Last four pages with credits to our artists. We've got several versions of that layout. You may notice here the word "Авторы" (Authors). The funny thing is that the font doesn't have cirillic which was needed. I nailed it by choosing the similar letters.
Postcards, made in style of The Arcana Game tarot cards. Golden parts are made with vector art. Some of the pictures I edited to make it more colorful + contasting, and to adjust art compositions.
Boom. More of them.
The layout of the reverse side of the cards (with gold foil) was restored using Photoshop from a small graphic file and prepared for printing.