- a substrate - paper or card sturdy enough to stand up to a lot of media
- a selection of print-based media
- scissors
- adhesive - glue stick
- writing instruments - pen, pencil, marker
- a selection of colouring media - pencils, watercolours, acrylic paints, paint pens, etc.
- ruler
- White-out, correction tape (optional)
Do:
- Go through your selection of media and cut out words, phrases, single letters, etc. that appeal to you or keep to a theme you might have set.
- Choose text in different fonts, sizes, and colours for variety, or not, if not suits your project better.
- You can do something random, or something more thematic. Look for a phrase, a quotation, lyrics, a poem, or something more fragmented.
- Arrange your pieces on your substrate to plan out the look you want.
- Experiment with overlaps, misalignment, repetition, etc., things that will appeal to a glitchy aesthetic.
- Once the arrangement suits you, glue everything down to the substrate.
- Add other final elements before using the sealant to finish the piece off.
Notes:
- Using a pen or marker, add handwritten elements to your piece, to repeat words or letters, or scribble items out.
- Using a correction tape or other white-out material, block out selected parts of your text, and perhaps use other materials to write over/colour into the blocked out areas.
- You could cut the substrate apart and rearrange the pieces to create a collage on another substrate, or simply cut only certain parts out and misalign them before gluing them back down.
- You could add other details besides handwriting, like doodles, shapes, lines, etc.
- You could use a ruler to create straight lines or borders around selected parts of the piece before sealing it.
- You could do this piece in monochrome, using just black / white / greys, or a different colour and its friends, complements, or contrasts.
- You could brighten the piece up by using something other than a white substrate.
- Fold, crumple, or otherwise mutilate some of the items before gluing them down, or add on other ephemera.
- Create a cut-up poem with your selections and add that to the substrate.
- Combine unrelated words/phrases and create something more nonsensical or random.