The Ultimate Magical Cat Zine Artistic Statement:
This zine about my cat Pita was originally designed to show her daily life. However, after I checked my gallery, I did not find as many nice photos of her, so I decided to change the theme a bit. I finished a Harry Potter script earlier this month so I think she would be fitting into that part. In this case I made her a shorter version of the storyline but still includes the part of fighting Lord Voldemort.
When designing the zine, I was shifting from making her photos perfectly fit to the background, or make it silly. From the chat in class with the Instructor, I decided to make the whole zine silly and funny. I used Adobe Illustrator to trace Pita from the original photos, and used the layered mechanism to make them colored. After the Illustrator, I took them into Photoshop and used the brush tool to make the edges of layers made in Illustrator smoother. Finally, change the background to fit them into the storyline.
I tried to show to the audience not only that the cat is silly, but she is dreaming. So I can deliver a meaning that, if a person (cat) wants to be creative, imagination is sometimes necessary. If I will rework on this zine, I will probably add some deeper meanings to it, and make the text more integrated to the main body.
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