 Hi everybody, welcome back to The Average I'm Steph, I'm the Average Artist and today we're going to find out how to make a mini-zine. This is a little zine that I made probably about four years ago, not sure actually, and it was about all the books that I've burnt with love It's a very hipster-y thing to make. I did it with like a little bit of collage and stuff And yeah, so it's about just visualizing the little bits and bobs about the books that I really gave five stars and really loved Yeah, you can see them all here. I did like a content theme on the back It's kind of cute, shiny, killer mockingbird, a handful of dust, I catch the castle, horns, the diary van Frank These were the books I chose, so yeah today I wanted to make a new one So this is basically how it looks first of all, so you can see there's two sides and what happens is It's just like an A4 piece of paper basically, this is card So it's pretty like heavy which I prefer then fold this basically fold it in half and then you fold it in half again So you have to fold that out like this, so it's like a little bit of a organ Like the instrument, not like the body organ. Orguments? Yeah, that's how you make a zine and I thought it would be cool to recreate this and I'll just show you guys how I did it basically and What my favorite five star reeds have been since Since I made this so let's just leave this to the side so you guys can See what I'm doing a little bit So this time I'm gonna be using my whole vine watercolor sketchbook I'm just gonna take a piece of paper out from here. I think the paper is actually quite thin So let's see how it does. It's also I think smaller than this one I'm not sure what size this is because this is an A4, but yeah, we're just gonna fold it the same way and Are they just gonna do it like this? What you know, this is not for you You can't can't just do that this way Okay, so that's the center and now these ones have to fold this way You're following you picking up what I'm putting down here lads You can see on this old one that I put front back and then one two three four or five six of how it will display When you fold it up. So what I'm gonna do and I'm gonna cut this Line in the middle here So now We should be able to fold it the same way other way So you want it to like flare out like that basically and then you have your little Zine which you can probably fold a little bit better than I did Being a bit more strict with the the folding there, but there you go That's how you make the little paper zine It's really good because you don't need to use any staplers and you can just fold it And then I guess if you wanted to you could do something inside the zine as well So you could like do a little surprise poster inside or something which is quite fun So let's get to drawing out what I wanted to put on these covers So if you are starting it off like I did where I'm just doing random book covers I don't really care What is the front or not? Then you don't really need to figure it out But I would suggest writing on the back what's gonna be the front and what's gonna be the back and the middle pages if you Want it to follow a certain scheme or a little booklet of something So the first book we have up today is the book of dust which follows on From the events in his northern materials, which I really enjoyed I really like this book the second book in the series was a little bit long and a little bit strange to me, but I will definitely still read the third one that is coming out probably soonish I did enjoy this book and yeah, that's why it's a kind of like a five-star review for me I really like the cover as well. There's lots of like sketchy hatching of texture in it Which I tried to emulate with by reproduction of the cover and I really like the way that this turned out It's a good little first one to start us off with I'm using lots of Holbein pencils and Polychromos pencils and also my Artex alcohol markers and then I'm also using lots of ink and going in with like a wet ink as well and Playing with it you guys can add and do whatever you want bear in mind What paper you use will determine what you can actually do on it That's why I wanted to use my watercolor paper because I knew that I was gonna use a lot of different media So probably best to find kind of like maybe a mixed media card stock would be really good to make your own little Zine here the next book is the Outsider by Stephen King I really like this one because it felt like a Spiritual successor to it slightly. I can't explain it unless you read it and also if you read the mr. Mercedes series It's sort of like the final one in that series, but it's not about the main character It's sort of like a side story. So I really enjoyed it made all the stories come together for me Maybe if somebody else read it, they wouldn't give it five stars But for me it felt very much like if you are a fan of Stephen King's books It was like him going back to his roots And the next book is one of the first five star reads that we did for our book club in Patrons, so if you don't know we have a book club on my patreon page Which is really fun We pick a book each month and we read it and this one was Mexican Gothic, which was so much fun to do I really like this cover I think I've redrawn it before and I really like the way that this one turned out because it seemed really like Artuny compared to the other version the actual real version of the book cover And I really liked that because it gave it a bit more of my style and my flair Which I really like so if you want to reproduce these little zines Maybe you want to give some to your friends or maybe sell them at maybe like a comic-con or something I don't know you could just scan this in and then print it out and fold the papers up in The exact way that you've done here with the original and then you can have copies of whatever you want to make Which is kind of such a fun idea I wish I knew how to do this when I was like a teenager would have been cool to make like mini zines and give them out to friends and things But hey, we know about it now, and it's a really nice keepsake as well. Like I said For me and reading all these books. It's really nice to look back on them and be like, oh, yeah that book and especially my older Zine that I showed you in the beginning I really found it like one day when I had kind of forgotten about it and I was like Oh, yeah, this is so cool and just rereading the quotes that I found interesting at the time I like that version of this zine as well So I might make another one where I do like quotes and stuff from books I really enjoy because I think sometimes it's good to Reinforce what a book left with you. So the last one of this half of the zine is Empress of Salt and Fortune It's another five-star read from our book club and I really like this book It was sort of just strangely written to me It was something new and fresh and it's a very short read, but it was very fantastical but also like delves into Chinese history, which I really like and yeah so the next book is my favorite book that I've read all year and My favorite new series ever the mirror visitor chronicles if you guys have not heard of this The last book just got translated from French and I finished them all a couple of weeks ago And I am absolutely in love with this series if I could see a book turning into a jibbly film It would be this one basically the main character can touch objects and read their history and see like visions of the history And the world has been separated into different continents like that are floating apart from each other and on each continent different factions have different powers and she has to go and Be married to somebody from a northern territory and who are very different from her and it's sort of like a courtier's Situation in the beginning of this book and then it just builds up from there and it's really really great I really like that series because it has a bit of everything that I admire or enjoy reading You know in fantasy anyway So the next book is a bit of a stone's throw from that book because it's more Based in reality It's born under a million shadows and it takes place in Afghanistan where war is raging and It's about a young boy being born and his family and I remember this book really sticking with me And it was good because it was kind of a story that wasn't solely based on heartache and terror which usually When I read books about Afghanistan or that they're always quite heartbreaking So this one still had its dose of uncomfortable reads it within the book But it I think like it had a nice ending. So there we go The next painting or book cover I should say is the Seven Deaths of Evelyn High Castle if you haven't read this book I really suggest it. It's like sci-fi fantasy who done it. It's Really incredible. I remember reading it feeling very confused the whole way through and Really enjoying the outcome of the ending. It's about a person who keeps waking up in a new body every day But has to figure out who murdered Evelyn Hardcastle So it's really interesting and I really like that read as well obviously because it's in my little zine that I've made here Now approaching the last book I think this is like the oldest book on here that I've read as in The longest to go that I finished it longest ago. You can tell I read a lot This one is Pachinko and it is about a Korean family Before the Second World War and the occupation and how this family moved to Japan and open a Pachinko parlor Which was very frowned upon at the time because it was sort of like gambling and people who did it were Look down upon and also the the things that the Korean Population faced at the time it sort of speaks on that and it's really an interesting Beautiful story full of heartache again because it tends to take place in wartime and gives the the interpretation of Hardship for Korean people during the Second World War So it's a really beautiful story and all these books are really great And I'm so glad that I made them into a zine because I can pick this up and look at it and just think nice The final product all that's left to do is just fold it up. So let's do that That's so satisfying Which one do I want to be the front this one? Yeah, I like that way and so this is the final we need zine. We have the outsider Mexican Gothic Empress of Salt and Fortune a winter's promise born under a million shadows seven deaths of Evelyn Harcastle and Pachinko and The Book of Dust I really like doing one of these it's really fun And it's a cool way to get out of our block to just like Study the book covers and just have fun with it. You could also do it like I did the old one where I just Took something from the book or took a quote from the book for instance to shining This is the a quote that I really liked from the book. I Really like the way that these turned out. So now I can every year make one maybe of the different books that I liked that year, so What do you guys think let me know down in the comments and let me know if you're gonna make one of these are really fun That's the end of the of the video. Thanks for watching guys Please like and subscribe and I will hopefully see you next time. Bye