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MAR: A Doodle a Day zine challenge *edited*

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MAR: A Doodle a Day zine challenge *edited*
Group:Zines, mail art & other cool stuff
Swap Coordinator:TangleCrafts (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Art  Zines 
Number of people in swap:19
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:January 30, 2011
Date items must be sent by:March 28, 2011
Number of swap partners:3
Description:

photo showers WalkerWorld's One a Day zine

The edit in the title refers to the send-by date which has been extended to the end of March. The swap has also been made slightly more flexible so that doodles do not need to be strictly daily, and doodles doodled in March as well as February are now acceptable.

Swap description: A Doodle a Day zine challenge

For the month of February, draw a doodle a day!
Accompany each day's doodle with a brief note about it e.g. “I've been wanting to try out zentangles for ages – this is my first attempt!” or “I had eggs for breakfast, so I drew a chicken...” etc. Notes can be longer than examples here, if you have more to say (and room to say it)! The doodle itself should take up at least half a page.

Your doodles can be colour or black and white, in pen, pencil, pastel, paint, collage, thread or any other media you feel comfortable doodling with. These are doodles, not artistic masterpieces, so don't be intimidated if you think you can't draw (neither can I!) - but please make an effort: don't just scribble on a page and call it done!

At the end of the month scan or photocopy your daily doodles and transform them into a quarter-size (/A6) zine to send to your partners.
Your zine should consist of 1 doodle-with-note per page (mark each page 'Day 1', 'Day 2' and so on), so your zine will be a minimum of 28 pages long. Feel free to add covers etc. Binding is up to you – stapled, stitched or other – anything is fine, so long as it holds the pages together securely!

Swap requirements

  • 3 partners = 3 copies of your doodle-a-day zine sent and 3 different doodle-a-day zines received - see above for zine specifics
  • Doodles should each be doodled on a separate day, but March doodles as well as February are also acceptable, so long as there are 28 in total.
  • The send-by date has been extended to the end of March. Please send on time!

The obvious bit
As well as meeting requirements as outlined on group homepage participants must have no late swaps on their dashboard, no 3 ratings in the last 3 months, and no 1 ratings in the last 12 months. I will check before assigning partners, so please contact me if you are concerned. I will take extenuating circumstances into account, but the happy swapping of the majority is the most important factor.

Discussion

kpatricialee 12/ 9/2010 #

This sounds super fun!!!

tifffoster 12/16/2010 #

Is a quarter-size an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper folded into fours?

TangleCrafts 12/18/2010 #

Yup. :)

hollycm6 01/12/2011 #

Question from a zine newbie... does that mean, I cut 7 pieces of paper into quarters, with each page holding an entry? Or is it better zine etiquette to fold it?

TangleCrafts 01/12/2011 #

Usual practice would be to fold rather than cut, but so long as you have a way of binding the pages together, it's entirely up to you. :)

TangleCrafts 01/12/2011 #

Apologies for the edit/s to swap description above. I wanted the 'challenge' to be a doodle a day in February, but I did not know at the time I set it up that I would be moving house in February, making it impossible for me to actually fulfill my own swap requirements! Those of you who aren't moving house are still welcome to stick to the February challenge and send as soon as you like thereafter. :)

hollycm6 01/13/2011 #

The edit is very helpful!

TangleCrafts 01/15/2011 #

Back to Holly's earlier question about pages-in-quarters. Just to clarify, to make a 'standard' quarter-size zine, you would cut a letter-size page in half then fold the half-pages in half to make a greeting card size fold of paper. You would then slot all those folds of paper together and bind down the spine to make a quarter-size booklet/zine. That's only one way of doing it, though, and any way is acceptable so long as the pages don't fall apart when you turn them! ;)

Kimbeewa 01/18/2011 #

I've only done a mini-zine before so I'm sorry if I sound like a dumbass here...How do you reproduce the zine? Do you doodle and then cut after you copy? I really want to try this but I feel like I'm gonna screw it up.

TangleCrafts 01/19/2011 #

One way you could do it is by dividing a letter-size page into quarters (but not cutting) and doodle in each quarter each day. Then you can photocopy/scan full pages and cut afterwards. Once you have printed back to back full pages you can cut them in half and fold to quarter-size zine (stapled or stitched down spine). Does that make sense?

Kimbeewa 01/19/2011 #

That's a great explanation, thank you!

FiWebster 01/26/2011 #

Thanks for the edit and the explanations--they help a lot. Good luck with your moving house, Su!

Fi

TangleCrafts 01/30/2011 #

You're both welcome. :) (And all seems stress-free with preparing to move house - so far, at least...!)

TangleCrafts 02/ 7/2011 #

...doodle, doodle, doodle... (That's the sound of me doodling. :) )

FarStarr 02/ 8/2011 #

duh duh duh...that's the sound of me looking at a blank booklet entitled "Doodle A Day".....:P

TangleCrafts 02/11/2011 #

:P

TangleCrafts 02/11/2011 #

Did I ever mention that I can't actually draw...?

Kimbeewa 02/16/2011 #

I am beyond elementary in my drawing skills. I'm doodling and looking at it going, "damn...I feel bad for my partners" :) I think my 6 year old daughter can draw better than me! But it's still fun and that's what counts ♥

FiWebster 03/14/2011 #

Everybody can draw, just like everybody can walk! Getting good at it is just a matter of practice--slowly acquiring the right visual & motor skills through repeated trial & error. Remember that looking well is at least 90% of drawing well.

But you won't have to remember that: once you practice drawing every day, your eyes will automatically start looking at things a lot more closely.

A book I've been using, which I highly recommend: Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists --it's not like the usual drawing book at all--it's really appealing & fun for us other-media artists!

camelsamba 03/16/2011 #

i agree with Fiona @melusina - once you make the connection between drawing and looking closely at things, you will be impressed at how rapidly you can make progress! (although I still can't draw faces or people...)

So binding by stapling is okay? I'm going to get my photocopies made tomorrow, but I'm hesitant to take the next step...

Kimbeewa 03/17/2011 #

Because of this post, I bought the book @melusina was talking about. I can't wait to get it, I've always wanted to be able to draw, I think it's one of the best super powers :)

FiWebster 03/19/2011 #

Stapling better be fine @camelsamba because that's what I did!

As for what @Kimbeewa says, hooray! and thanks for the feedback. I gotta tell ya, I've only been trying to improve my drawing in just the past year or so. The great thing I'm discovering as I learn to draw: Drawings speak from the soul. I've been a writer all my life, so I'm amazed to discover that my drawings seem to convey "me" much better than my words.

TC 03/28/2011 #

This was one of the most challenging swaps I've done on SB. Thank you for hosting it!

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