it's the most inspiring thing, to see an artist or a person working on a project so right and true for them. I appreciate a lot your commitment through external difficulties, as well as bringing your own voice and talent into climate activism! congratulation on your amazing new zine and thank you so much for sharing the process.

"I'm feeling really excited and inspired and nervous and scared because I'm making something out of nothing, the only direction I have is my own...", so well said, beautifully paced, and presented for anyone wondering what it truly feels like to start in, glean information, collect it, arrange it, draw it out, figure out how you want it to be and implement.

WOw! The whole thing.. the video, the process, the topic... It's just so magical to see you work on this and pour energy into a creative endeavor with such a topic. Congratulations!

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

☺thank you so much Romina

I'm also currently working on a project relating whales and the environment. I'm linking together an Irish folktale about the first harp being made from the rib of a whale, and the marine sound pollution happening off the coast of Scotland due to industrial activity (mainly fishing), and the effect this has on disrupting the sonar function of marine mammals. I'm in the process of building a harp and creating a small publication, and next summer I'll record the plucking of the harp under the water somewhere around the Hebrides (spoiler: it will be very noisy down there)

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Wow this project just blew my tiny mind! Well done you Phoebe. Is there anywhere I can sign up/go to keep up to date with your project? I'd love to follow along.

My zone arrived last week. I mean to put stories on Instagram. It made me cry seeing how much the whales give, yet they are struggling to thrive here because of us humans. A very informative educational piece of literature. A very well done to you spreading awareness 💞

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Joy! So happy to hear your thoughts on it, very encouraging. Thank you for all of your support, it means so much xxx

Loved this video Holly! Hope you're well! Mwa mwa x x x

I understand what you are feeling right now about the state of our planet. It is hard not to get very depressed. It was because of you that I became vegan, and I have not looked back. I see the world from a totally different angle. As a bird photographer I see beauty all around me, and will do what it takes to protect it for future generations.

This was such a nice surprise! I really enjoy seeing you paint and miss those sorts of videos from your channel. I look forward to the next.

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for tuning in!

I am so happy to see you again 💙

Holly this is absolutely amazing back to back! You are incredibly talented and intelligent, truly an inspiration

what a lovely video. bought myself a copy of your zine, i can't wait for it to arrive! you inspire me so much both in the art sector and just the heart you have for the planet and animals both human and non. you're truly a gem

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, you're too sweet! I really hope you like the zine :)

So happy to see you back!😊

Oh! I was able to purchase one! Such a treasure!

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Romina!

I came from your first video about zines, so it was really cool to get to see you design your own! The final product looks gorgeous! Your work is really beautiful. :)

@hollyexley

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Absolutely beautiful concept! Cannot wait to purchase your zine!!!

I absolutely love zines and zine culture! I'm constantly buying ones from my local artists. 💕

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Me too! Nothing better than a cup of tea and a good zine!

@stellannie86

Жыл бұрын

@@hollyexley Exactly that 💙 I'll just swap the tea for coffee :D

@itscarolinemary

Жыл бұрын

@@hollyexleyyou should do a zine video on your favourites or a haul!

Wow, I love both the idea and the result 🤩 Thank you for being such an inspiration!

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mary!

So nice to see you making videos and artwork again! The zine looks lovely

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Elizabeth!

Love this style of video! Gorgeous work too, as always

What a fantastic project. Thanks for sharing your process. ❤

I wish I bought the zine on time. I first watched this video when you released it and I was working on my own personal illustrations and this kept me going. I love the things you do and the way you go about doing them, thanks for being here and giving me breaks from my own insanity.

Holly, this was so fantastic to see you posting and creating again! Yay! You have been very much missed. I'm headed over to Etsy now to get my copy. :)

The subject you picked is so evocative, and your illustrations are absolutely gorgeous. Can't wait to get a copy!

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for all of your support!

Holly, you’re back!!!

Wow, I love it...ordering now. The research, care and feelings you put into this project was inspiring to me. Thank you and take care💜

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support Michelle, means so much!

What an amzing and inspiring video, can’t wait to receive mine! ❤

Congrats Holly!! 🥳👏💐 Love seeing your creative process and how you take us along the whole story and art journey. It gave me so many throwbacks when I created my first zine (especially the overwhelm to start drawing haha but also having a great time while doing research). Also, WOW for creating all of this in such a short amount of time!

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

I'm not usually so speedy! I don't know what happened 😆 Thanks so much Elena, your zine was an inspiration to me!

@ellstration

Жыл бұрын

@@hollyexley you followed the path of excitement. Thank you so much for sharing this with me. 🥲 And so we come full circle, because your zine video was the inspiration for my zine. 💛

It was so interesting to see your research and your process creating this!

I love my copy 💚It’s so beautiful Holly xxx

Congratulations! Just places my order - solidarity with the strikers, indeed. It will be such a lovely treat when it arrives. Have a lovely Sunday x

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Louise x x

Congratulations o the zine and also on finding some inspiration again. I love watching bits of your creative process. You're such a talented artist with such a huge heart. (Side note, mobile living is HARD. I travelled for nearly 3 years but my heart and body finally needed to stop and grow roots. I'm not saying this will happen to you, just that I empathise with that feeling of the "freedom" sometimes being hard work in other ways).

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Yes, we've been struggling a little bit with it lately, still in the transition stage and with a lot of commitments pulling us in different directions. But we will be taking 3 months to travel and exist without disruption very soon and really looking forward to it!

Such an enjoyable video, thank you!

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed Holly!

You are forever my artistic inspiration. Thank you for sharing your journey. Your paintings are so beautiful and they always bring joy to my heart ;)

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Sara 🥲That means the world to me!

OMG I can't believe you're making artwork about whales and especially whalefalls!!! I made a series of illustrations of whalefalls in cooperation with marine scientists of the Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany back in 2019! Such a fascinating, complex topic, but there aren't many images or photographs of the whalefall process out there, because of the very hard access in the deep sea, as well as the fact that the decomposing can take even 100 years. Can't wait to see your artwork Holly! Much respect

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

It's such a fascinating process isn't it. In the end I worked from stills of video footage on KZread - because you're right, there's not much! Found some great artwork from different artists of whale falls - maybe I saw some of yours too? Is it online>?

I bought your zine! Can’t wait to receive it x

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

🥲Thank you so much Dee!

Yea! Holly you are on the right track! There is a very good Domestika course on whales in watercolour that might interest you: not expensive:

Hi new to your channel, found you through searching for Zines which I've just discovered. I'm full of admiration for your thoughtful and inspiring process and the result is really beautiful.

@hollyexley

8 ай бұрын

Oh thank you!

We miss you so much😍

That project came out looking really lovely. That's more like a real book than any zine I've ever seen. You put a lot of work into it.

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

I wish this zine was still available! This was such a beautiful video. I often find myself rushing my creative projects, but your whole process has inspired me to allow myself time to research, plan, and just truly get immersed in it.

@hollyexley

9 ай бұрын

Aw thank you - glad to have encouraged you, hope you enjoy your time getting creative!

The painting on 18:06 reminds me of the artwork for an arcade game called "R-Type". Anyways, the painting look pretty and zines are fun to make.

Such a lovely journey, best of luck with your zine, I would love to know more about the technical side of how to upload artwork and how to get it printed as I think it would make a lovely project for my primary class

I really enjoyed this. I went looking for the zine but it must be long gone. Thoroughly enjoyed your process.

@hollyexley

6 ай бұрын

So glad you enjoyed this! Sorry, yes, the zine sold out a while back

Thank you for sharing, I am a zine fan I watched your previous video too. I am putting together a collage zine and wondering which printing service you used (in UK) I've previously used blurb though I'm looking at others where the paper folds like yours.

I love the idea of making a zine based on an animal and climate crisis that we are facing. I think that I would love to write and illustrate one about sharks because people have a misconception about them (and also furtive haunt) and that's why I would love to talk about sharks, because they are my favourite sea animal 💖

@astritcastillo4220

Жыл бұрын

Ps: I also am a huge fan of your work and the way you see the world 💖

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

That is such a good idea, please do this! I don't know much about sharks at all but would love to learn!

This was such a beautiful video, I'm so excited to receive the zine! I'll probably end up putting it in a frame and changing the page layout every so often. Hope you're all doing well ^.^ - Mandy

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Mandy!

Thank you for sharing your process. Lots of good tips and motivation. I am curious what kind of scanner you use to scan your artwork?

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

It's a Canon CanoScan LiDE 400 . It's pretty reliable

@bykowaart3450

Жыл бұрын

@@hollyexley Thank you for the tip Holly!

I want to buy your zine SO MUCH! 😭 is there a new link to purchase?

Holly 😊 I had such an in depth (pardon the pun) dream about a whale fall last night. So random but beautiful. I could think of no better person to mention this random happenstance to... and the need to dig out my Exley Whalebone/Whalefall zine 🐋💙 x

@hollyexley

7 ай бұрын

Aw I'm jealous! Whale dreams are the best! Were you with the whale?

@louiselangton

7 ай бұрын

​@hollyexley I was! Saw their eye close and then fall... haven't yet looked up what exactly this may mean 😅 but just grateful for the memory x

💙

On many hectares of land, we grow mangroves. We all enjoy planting trees, including our president. We may just protest about climate change since our nation is a democracy. We are the world's lungs, after all. We keep striving to be the best. Planting is still ongoing. 32 degrees Celsius and 57 percent humidity were the weather conditions at the time this comment was posted. From Indonesia, warm greetings 💙😊

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

🌳🌳🌳💙🌎Thank you!

Hello, do you think the zine will be available in the future? I'd like to have one of them, but I think they're all sold out.

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Hello! I have a small number of zines left that I may make available with my next zine / shop launch. So look out for that and sorry you missed out this time!

Hello. Could anyone explain to me what exactly is "zine". I have been seeing a lot of videos about it but no one really explains what it is...

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

Hi, I've got a video that explains what zines are: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iH2h1NCSdbG2eaw.html

which printers did you use?

@hollyexley

8 ай бұрын

Hello Blue in Bristol

You need to read about the natives in USA. They still whale hunt for their needs.

Okkk so I started watching this only knowing you were making a zine, thinking ‘maybe this will inspire me to create that zine idea I had about cetaphobia (fear of whales which I had growing up but have now grown to love them and fear for them) and then you said whales and now part of me feels I should stop watching in case your ideas influence mine too much or are really similar 😂😂 the dilemma

@Alice-zs3eh

Жыл бұрын

I watched and I’m so glad!! This was such a great reminder of how key research is in the creative process for me as a way of developing my ideas. I think I’ve been feeling blocked as I’ve felt like i just need to ‘get started’ on ideas - when I think I actually need time to research and gather inspiration. So thank you! Idk if the zine is still available but I will definitely purchase one if it is. And thankfully our visions are very different hehe. The concept of the whale fall is so fascinating!

@hollyexley

Жыл бұрын

@@Alice-zs3eh I knew your ideas would be different - there is just so much scope and zines are so personal! Best of luck with your creations, I hope you enjoy. And sadly the zine is no longer available but I may be selling back issues in the future.

@Alice-zs3eh

Жыл бұрын

@@hollyexley that’s very true - just had a lil moment haha. How funny though that this video was so relevant! Thank you and I’ll definitely keep an eye out for if you do ☺️

Wow you are wrong in this story. Hogwash ❤

You sound like you have ADHD. Do you have ADHD? I do and this totally sounds like my process! Amazing artwork and a thoroughly intersting video! Thank you for sharing!

@hollyexley

5 ай бұрын

I don't think I do - what traits have you noticed? I may be neutrodivergent , I have sometimes wondered. It's hard to tell as you get older and you've never been diagnosed!

@tywilliams3543

5 ай бұрын

@@hollyexleyPlease take my comment with a grain of salt. It’s like when you get a new hat, suddenly you see that hat everywhere! 😂 Your process, the rabbit-holes and the detail all sound like my creative process with ADHD. I’m certainly not a clinician or anyone qualified to recognize neurodivergence, other than my own experiences. I very much enjoyed the video and the process, though. Thank you for sharing this!

Climate justice and injustice? Climate crisis. Hmmmmm.

Left liberal under a stone. Your history is wrong. ❤

@hollyexley

8 ай бұрын

I'm not a liberal, I'm a socialist ❤

Loved this video Holly! Hope you're well! Mwa mwa x x x