I’d already decided to donate after the High Five Challenge is over. 
I’ll PM you.
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Thank you!! 
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I have always loved your drawing style, and this is such a special set of illustrations! And, with the addition of the frog on the back, it’s swoon worthy!
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Kirsten, how did you create your precise and lovely drawings? By hand and scanned in or with an image editing/design program?
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All by hand. I started with a fairly loose drawing with a pencil. Then I overlaid my initial rough drawing with a thin, slightly translucent, smooth Japanese paper, and drew carefully in ink with my fine fountain pen. Doing it this way meant I didn’t have to erase any pencil marks and risk smudging or damaging the paper surface too much.
Then I scanned them. The only digital clean up was to turn the background pure white (they scanned very slightly greyish, which was a pain). I am not good at all with digital tools, it’s something I haven’t learned.
Oh, and the frog was a resized copy of another ink drawing I did a while ago (also redrawn/reinked by hand) 
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Wonderful! And I often have problems with scanned backgrounds being grayish also. I hate it! Sometimes, the cleanup is quick and simple, sometimes not. The Canon scanner I had had settings within the interface. I could adjust the background/size before saving. This HP all-in-one does not have those features.
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Head over to the High Five Challenge and vote for your favorite entry by August 23!
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Your drawings are so delicate and precise, this is a wonderful zine. When I read about the challenge, making a zine popped into my head as well! I was not able to even start it, so I am delighted someone else made one. Our styles would have been, um, very different😄
I’ll be messaging you❤️
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Thank you so much! I hope you will have a go at making your own zine - I’d love to see what you make!!
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Well now, you are very clever and this is glorious
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Have I told you lately that I LOVE your artwork! I think a coloring zine is the epitome of lettuce craft! So adorable and well done!
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! I’m excited to get coloring.
Yay! I hope you have fun with it 
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I still have a few more copies, if anyone wants one. I am happy to mail anywhere!
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Everything about this zine does such a good job capturing the warmth and wonderfulness of the LC community. I love everything about it!
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This is such a cute zine!
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I’m told I have an envelope waiting for me at home! It think it’s the LC Zine!! So excited.
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I received mine!! I liked the mini Australia tour with the postage stamps as well. They’re going in my collection, obviously.
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Yay!!