Let’s Talk About the Zine MASTER COPY!

[@fern_the_opossum1693]

i am currently making a zine for a biology project by hand using bits of national geographic magazines and random pics from the internet and stickers :)

[@brattyxbre]

YAY!!!

[@e.carolinewalters217]

What a great breakdown! I love how you give examples in all your videos - it's so helpful. (Side note: you inspired me to make my first writing-based perzine ☺)

[@brattyxbre]

Omg I feel like a proud zine mom ❤️ That’s the best thing ever, keep going !!

[@Thialeana]

I love the Nicki and Isabele Zine! I really need to make my own zines! Maybe that will be my next project after Fred the Wooble 😀

[@brattyxbre]

FRED THE WOOBLE IS SO CUTE

[@Thialeana]

@@brattyxbre He is seriously one of my favorite woobles so far. Annoying to make. But super adorable!

[@stonata]

great video !! btw, would you mind showing how to make more interactive zines? i really liked the ones you shared here + the one you did for manic panic :>

[@brattyxbre]

Of course! Working on a few of those but in the meantime I have a video on how I made that flexagon (like the one for manic panic) I hosted an online workshop for this type of fold last year but the replay can be seen here 👇🏽 vimeo.com/878780564 (If KZbin doesn’t show the link, it’s on my website under “zine resources”)

[@gabrielleholt1863]

I'm fully aspiring to do what you do, as a means of sharing my passions and creative writing with the world. I've been dabbling with zines since I saw your videos last year and this month I've fully committed to the craft with supplies and experimenting with different topics/ideas. I'm hoping to have my first few zines for sale soon and table at my first zine fair at the end of this summer! I'm a mega fan of your content and I'll absolutely support your work forever because you've led me to a cool community and artistic medium that finally speaks so well to my scatter brained creative soul

[@brattyxbre]

I’m so PROUD OF YOU!!! And honored to be part of your zine journey in this way…let me know how your first zine fest goes. It’s always so exciting to see people read, buy, and trade your zines. I know you’ll have a blast 🖤🖤 Thank you for sharing this with me and have a beautiful weekend x

[@J.Starsatz]

I was just looking for a video about this! Thank you for being my favorite mind reader!!

[@brattyxbre]

Anytime 😌🧘🏽‍♀️🔮

[@satansatansatan]

always so thorough and informative...thx!

[@pyenygren2299]

Thank you for this video. 🎉

[@brattyxbre]

Anytime ❤️❤️

[@IvanaBrehas-bx7tq]

Love your videos & your zines! I was wondering, how do you shoot your top-down footage in these videos (e.g. when you're showing your zines on a desk)? I'm interested in shooting footage like that (on a shoestring budget) and would love any advice/recs you might have

[@brattyxbre]

Thanks 😊 I have a ring light that has a phone clip on it for overhead filming. Can’t remember the brand but I got it for like $15 on Amazon

[@lynnboartsdye1943]

I’m actually really curious about how printers work in the context of zines and other art now that it’s brought up. I went from traditional art to digital and am now looking to do a mix as I enter zinemaking and when I was working only in digital I didn’t think that much about my colour choices for characters or pieces since I’d only post them to social media. Whenever I would print my art the colours would be off and I started looking into why since I’d still like to make my colours close enough to how they’re depicted on screen even if it’s not 100% accurate. So turns out colour irl and on light based screens are very different. The spectrum we see in screens are RGB (red green blue) while CYMK (Cyan Yellow magenta key aka black) are ideal for print ink. Screens have a broader range of vibrant colour than inks do and when you print something using those vibrant colours they become dulled or even shifted thanks to the conversion of printing. (That’s my basic understanding, if printing experts wanna correct me or elaborate feel free to!) Ben day dots are an example of something comic artists used in the early days of comic print to get a wider variety of colours, instead of colouring an entire page in ink they’d dot it in one or even several colours to give the illusion of a fully coloured page whilst keeping the comic cheap to print. I hear some printers can provide brighter/more accurate colours and I’d love to find out what the range is for zines and for big printing companies. I agree that letting them look messy or not as polished is a good thing this is more a general curiosity.

[@brattyxbre]

Yes! Printing CYMK helps to avoid those dull colors and get a more vibrant print. I’ve been tinkering around with my printers for years trying to make sure it prints correctly, but sometimes it’s hard to get it juuuuuust right. Zines looking messy are a bit part of its accessibility but when when prints come out CRISP I love that too! It’s just that not everyone has great printers or can afford ink so I appreciate all zines and their quirks. Risograph printing is another awesome printing method I’ve been exploring. It prints an image out in layers instead of all at once, so the final result looks very funky…the colors lay on top of eachother in a way I’ve never seen before. If you’re not familiar with riso printing you might take some interest in it 😍 Thanks for watching and leaving a great comment about printers. It inspires me to keep saving up for a good one that can last for more years to come 🫶🏽

[@lynnboartsdye1943]

@@brattyxbre aaaa thank you too!! Your work has been a breath of fresh air recently. My place is too tiny to fit a printer right now so I’ve essentially made friends with my university’s print shop, I hope by time I’m able to afford and make space for one I have a deeper knowledge base about the various types. I’ll look into Riso options in my area that sounds really cool! :D

[@thats-ki]

love this! I know you said you have a hard time with using procreate/other programs for digital zine making but I would love to see the extent to which you do use it.

[@brattyxbre]

Good to know! I’ll make note of that for future videos. I do have a template for procreate and a very short tutorial on how I use it on my zine resources page (linked on the “about the channel” part of my KZbin) if you wanted to check that out in the meantime ☺️

[@thats-ki]

@@brattyxbre I just made one using the template yesterday!! It was super helpful! Thank you for all the time and energy you put into making zines + zine making accessible for others, you are a superstar 🌟

[@erikabows8905]

Will you be making more zine kits? Love your videos

[@brattyxbre]

Yes they’re in stock and I will reopen my shop in a few weeks :) Feel free to join my newsletter to get an update of when I reopen 🤗 substack.com/@brestinyprintshop?

[@ali5997]

Hey! Not related to the video but I have a question. I’m being put in charge of running my sixth form (school aged 16-18) ‘magazine’ next year, and was wondering if you have any advice for getting people interested in writing. I want to make it as community based zine-ey as possible, but I’m nervous that nobody will want to join in 😭 any thoughts?

[@brattyxbre]

That sounds really awesome! I’d say the biggest way I get people interested in writing is by sharing my love for it. I like to read people my writing too, so if they resonate with it it can potentially inspire them with their own work. Maybe even talk about the benefits of writing versus other things. I like to encourage people to write or make zines instead of doom scrolling on their phones (that’s just one example!) You can also show them just how creative they can be with it by sharing cool magazine samples with them, etc. I used to run my high schools magazine and once they saw cool magazine examples, it got them into it! Good luck 🍀😇

[@unwrittenbook]

Thanks for the video :) I have a question - how does copyright with zines work? If I for example just want to use a photograph of a landscape that I found online…I have a vague feeling that this would not be ok with copyrights….do I need to alter it? Is it enough? Just wondering…working on a zine a right now and I just want to be careful :)

[@brattyxbre]

To be on the safe side I’d alter it a bit! I have a video all about this if you’d like to check it out 👇🏽 kzbin.info/www/bejne/boS0dqSnbNGNps0si=AQWOdBFHVaxD3IzQ

[@unwrittenbook]

@@brattyxbre Thank you! I completely missed this video!

[@brattyxbre]

No prob!!

[@cocoanashe]

❤

[@ColzoArt]

🫶

[@brattyxbre]

Thanks for watching