Make your own Zine - £75

What You Will Study

Do you enjoy drawing, painting, writing or taking photographs? This creative zine-making course is designed to help you transform individual pieces of work into a handmade, book-style publication you can proudly call your own. Whether you want to tell a story, explore a topic of interest, or showcase your imagery, zines are a flexible and expressive way to bring ideas together.

Across four weeks, you’ll explore what zines are and where to find inspiration, before developing an idea through research, sketching, image-making and writing. You’ll experiment with combining text and images, think about audience and narrative, and learn simple formatting and binding techniques. As the course progresses, you’ll refine your ideas, work on your own project, and bring everything together into a finished zine, with opportunities to share and discuss your work in a supportive group setting.

This course is open to adults who are confident or keen to create and take part in creative discussion. It is particularly suited to those with an interest in drawing, design or visual storytelling, and is a great follow-on for learners who have completed a drawing or bookbinding course.

By the end of the course, you’ll understand what a zine is, have developed your own visual language, and leave with a completed handmade publication and the confidence to continue exploring creative self-publishing.