How to DIY Risograph Memo Pads or Notepads - Tutorial and Design

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Dear everyone,

This is the companion video to my Photoshop Memo Pads tutorial here:    • Photoshop Risograph Tutorial 2022 - DIY Me...  

In this video, I go through my full process of making my Strawberry memo pads DIY, from my design inspiration to illustration all the way to finishing.

Before I made this video, I experimented on a few different ways to glue the pads together and tried to follow some tutorials on Youtube, but in the end, I came up with my own way that works for me. Therefore, I also recommend that you try experimenting with different ways to put together your own pads or take what you can from my video.

One thing I didn't mention in my video that I think is also important is that you should glue along the grain, not across from it. If you would like to know more about grain, I talk about it briefly in my DIY booklets video:    / m-2bh2jgxh  

I performed an experiment gluing along and across the grain, and what I found was that gluing across the grain produced excessive buckling or warping from the moisture/application of the glue. I think the results are best when you glue in the grain long direction, by which I mean orient the papers in the same direction as the grain.

I truly found the whole process to be very fun, and I will definitely be making more designs. Would you be interested in me making a video about those too? Please let me know in the comments below.



Thanks and see you again soon,

Olivia


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