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New Shirts are LIVE! + PDF feedback

The new shirts I spoke about recently are live on my merchandise site here: https://miniac.bigcartel.com/products


Also, on my drive home yesterday I cracked open Adobe InDesign for the first time to start working on a PDF and to figure out what kind of information I want to be in it. I'd love your feedback on the information I've included as to whether it's too much or too little. Keep in mind that a video will be accompanying each PDF. Also, pay no mind to the actual aesthetics of the PDF, I'm still practicing on how to make PDFs pretty :) The PDF is attached to this announcement.

New Shirts are LIVE! + PDF feedback

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As this will be a electronic pdf that many will read from a screen (Tablet/ computer) I'd have the Image on the left and the text to the right of it, with around three images + blurb per page. This will make the document longer but easier to follow, gives you more space to write the description. This will eliminate that you f#ck up the layout as on Page 3 in the example, where the bottom image on the left's description spills over into the middle column.

No probably not 😂

Will you be producing a t-shirt that has a beautiful fluffy bunny on it? I'd buy the hell out of a fluffy bunny version.

Thank you everyone for the feedback!!

I agree with the others, information is great it's just the layout that suffers. Flows awkwardly and doesn't look the prettiest. That being said, don't be afraid to use as many pages as you like. We're not going to print it so saving paper is not a concern. No need to cram everything together. A good start though my dude!

I think you need to number the images and the text to ensure it lines up. I would suggest following the Scale 75 inserts. All the images in a strip and then the text off to the side. I wouldn't worry about white space, most people are not going to print it so it is essentially free formatting you can use.

A summary or list of paints and or any other special supplies would be useful. I know you want to stay away from implying that any paints are the “correct” paints, but a lot of us new painters aren’t confident enough to make every choice on our own. Besides... you could use affiliate links....

I've put too way to much thought in to my patreon name, and this is what you get

While I didn't find it confusing to have all the steps on the bottom of the photos I can see why having them on top would be... Not sure how to solve that. I'd still be interested in seeing a list (read: recipe) of the paints you used at the bottom after all it's said and done. And maybe you should follow Reddit's format of "finished picture first" and then dive into steps. Your very last paragraph plus the finished photo would work very well here as the intro.

consider having the steps read top-top-top-top-bot-bot-bot-bot I got very confused with those steps before realising you'd structured it as top-bot-top-bot-top-bot-top-bot


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