Very nice!! Is it super hard to put together a calendar? Like, how do you make one? I've been thinking of making one for my aunty or something for christmas, but I dunnoo
I've been doing this for Many Years so I've kinda gotten into a pretty specific routine which is this:
- say I'll start SUPER EARLY this year and then start working on it in october as usual
- decide on a theme!
- write down all ideas i have for theme. i have a note document on my phone so i can add ideas whenever i have them
- i use ink and watercolour so i use a3 watercolour paper. i buy two blocks so i can work on another drawing while the ink dries on the other
- the challenge is Variety. you're gonna have 12 (13 if you make a front page) poses/compositions, 12 colour schemes, 12 everything. I use two watercolour sets (those boxes with small cubes of paint in it) so i have a limited amount of set colours and gotta work around that. this year with the unicorns i also had to think about whether or not the next unicorn was gonna face left or right, to make sure i don't draw almost all of them facing left haha ha.........
- and then!!! deciding on the order, what drawing is what month... it's the variety thing again, so you don't end up with like. three red drawings after eachother - unless that's your intended theme or thing idek.
- it's probably obvious but leaving space on each paper for the Month Section
- because we make copies of the calendars we just print the month things out on normal paper and glue them on. it looks good on the copy, but it's visible on the original
- THE WORST PART is finding a way to hold it all together like a functional calendar. we use these... clib bar things? like a bar you slide on, and then clips that make it possible to hang up on things. uh. i don't know how to explain this at 4am
- then there's like. print hell. because printers are evil and hate you, then assembling all the prints together,, then shipping them,,,
ok that's all i have for now im going to bed!!!
