Art Zines with Erika Rier

Art Zines with Erika Rier

Carla Sonheim Presents: Erika Rier

From “riot-girl” to professional artist, Erika has been making zines for her whole career, and in this new class she shares her process for putting these unique artist books together. We get to enjoy her wonderful style and artwork while learning how to plan, create and assemble fine-art zines. – Carla Sonheim

Art Zines
Instructor: Erika Rier
5 Lessons
Pre-recorded, self paced. Initial “live” class dates: June 17-26, 2025

Hello!

I’ve been making ‘zines for over 30 years, and I think that they are one of the most wonderful ways to share your work… with loved ones AND strangers! When I started as a teenager, I would leave my zines, free and anonymous, all over town. These days I am working on as many as 10 intricate art zines at any given time, and publish 3-4 per year; I print, cut and bind the zines myself and sell them at art shows, in galleries and online.

In this fun class we’ll cover everything from brainstorming through planning, layout and adding some handcrafted details such as hand-cut pages and a gatefold, so that your art zine can be a truly unique publication.

Zine-making is a huge part of my life and I’m really excited to share the process with you!

Erika

This class includes:

• 5 video lessons;
• Instructor feedback;
• Unlimited access to all the teaching materials of this class;
• The ability to watch the class at your pace, at the time you choose, as often as you want. You can watch it from your computer, but also from your tablet or phone. So you can also take this course while on holiday!
• Access to the class forum on Facebook or Padlet

This class is only available for customers
outside United States & Canada

If you live in The United States or Canada, please visit www.carlasonheim.com to purchase this class.

Price:
USD 59 (Outside EU)
EUR 65 (EU, 21% VAT incl.)

Class Itinerary

Lessons are prerecorded and the lessons will be available immediatly upon signup.

Lesson 1: Sketchbook Brainstorming

In our first class together we will work in our sketchbooks to start generating ideas as well as the beginning of our visual and written materials to use when creating our art zines.

Lesson 2: Make a Dummy

For our second class we’ll make a dummy, a blank version of our book, so that we can start figuring out page number, layout, and interactive aspects of our art zine.

Lesson 3: Drawing a Road Map

In this class we will start drawing a road map for our zine. This stage is known as storyboarding where we start to untangle the story and flow of our art zine.

Lesson 4: Making a Sentence

In this lesson we’ll set up our templates and get our pencil sketches down onto our final layout paper.

Lesson 5: Adding Color

In our final class we’ll draw our final spreads together and discuss considerations to take into account while creating these images.

Bonus Video: Putting Our Zines Together

I demonstrate how I printed and put together my final zine!

Supplies

For a full list of the supplies you will need, see the tab titled “Materials” located at the top of this page.

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