The Seldom Killer

I missed a couple of days this time around, but the projects seemed to require twice as much work, as most of them were designed on the computer first. I'd say I'm about 50/50 on the quality, though.

Day #11: nothing. I'm sure I meant to make something, but I couldn't find anything in the mess of my table, so it looks like I didn't. Oops.

Day #12: card design
Here are various colourways of a card I designed, which was based off this photo but cleaned up and practically redrawn in Photoshop, which took quite a while.

I did print one off but forgot to resize it and it was too big even for A4. I didn't print any more off because I didn't have the cardstock I wanted (also need to replace printer inks, because the teeny samples they give you when you buy a new printer don't last very long). I'm not sure which colourways I like best, either.

Day #13: nothing again. Oh dear.

Day #14: First version of this year's Christmas card. It's based off this photo of agave trees in Hastings.

There are also blue and pink versions, because I originally planned to print the cards on coloured paper and paste them to white cards, but that seemed too fiddly in the end, so I scrapped that idea.

Day #15: Version 2 of this year's Christmas card. This is the version that I gave to people.

Everyone liked it, hurrah!

Day #16: Mini photo zine using photos of found faces. This is one of the early versions. The title comes from the Hello Little Fella group. These pics show it unfolded.

Day #17: Really teensy version of the Hello Little Fella photozine, made for the lads at BERG. The top pic shows it properly folded.

I squeezed four copies to one sheet of A4. Each side was duotoned in green and red colourways for Christmas, but for some reason the red version, which should have been pinkish, came out purple.

Day #18: And nothing, again. Some catching up to do…!

Day #19: Prototype mini photo album made using recycled paper and card, two holes punched, and bound with a plastic straw.

It was supposed to be a stocking-filler gift, but I'll have to make a proper one after Christmas, and give it late. I had to prototype it because a) I hadn't decided how to bind the book, b) the ink in my printer was running out c) I didn't have the photo paper I wanted (these photos are just printed on regular paper), and d) I've discovered I'm crap at cutting straight lines and should get a guillotine to do it properly. Also, I want to give it a better cover, so the plastic straw is hidden.

Day #20: Handprinted wrapping paper. This was made by covering a cardboard triangle with gouache and pressing the shapes onto a sheet of wallpaper liner paper. You can't really tell from the photo, but it's a huge present and printing the paper took quite a while. I think it looks pretty good, though (it actually looks better in real life than it does in the photo).