Manifesto (2): my drawings and the Winter Festival

I drew how the barter system works in our society. Here are also some trading symbols and currencies:

Some drawings of the daily life of our society:

Our society is quite sustainable, so all creatures commute by bike. Since Kaybochas are too small, they take shuttle buses which are connected carts trailing behind bicycles of other creatures.

Kaybochas are agricultural farmers and they live in houses made of pumpkins. Every year there is a pumpkin house building contest judging the best built, designed and decorated squash house.

Underground cult films: Titanic!

The Winter Festival

In our brainstorming, the Winter Festival is an important festival to strengthen the bond of the society during hardship and cold weather. During this time of celebration, the queen further indoctrinates the fact that she had provided warmth and happiness to the creatures who had suffered in winter.

Some doodles of the winter festival

Then I drew a scene of what happens in the Queen's castle during the festival: beings dance and have fun in a sea of pillows. It is drawn with ink and I wanted to redraw it, but my groupmates liked it. We decided to keep it as an extra bit in our zine, perhaps something like a postcard or invitation card.

I coloured it digitally but it looked too colourful to me. 

I further experimented with just using red as an accent colour, while our zine continued to develop and chose to only feature red and black. I think the contrast of red and the vignette created an eerie atmosphere.

We later decided that the queen's documents should only be in black and white, so this postcard is not supposed to have colour. Even if the red worked really well to bring emphasis on the disco ball and to create an ominous atmosphere, it has to stick to B&W. So I attempted to create more depth in the existing linework (which originally did not have much depth in value), and tried to lighten the atmosphere of the Winter Festival so it appeals as the queen's propaganda.

The final version attempts to keep the bokeh so it looks more romantic.

The back of the invitation card.

I had some glossy paper (albeit just 220 gsm-- could've been harder) so we printed the postcard on that. It worked really well with the drawing!