Not only with inking in the art, I'm also trying to come up with 'freebies' for any Kickstarter project that I might get up and running for publishing the work.
Ever since I found those brass brad fasteners with the short shanks I've been working on how to use them with small paper dolls of the characters. Moving arms, waving toilet brushes, moving tails, I've got a dozen small sketches that can be worked out into some nice looking stand-up type of paper art. And they'd be mailable as a flat item too.
I get monthly ad mailings from Office Depot that has coupons for 20% off any printing costs so that helps defray the $$$ for printing anything up. They have card stock in two thicknesses too, and those feed through their machines just fine. I can't even get the thin card stock to go through my printer here. They can also do COLOR printing on card stock. At $1.25 a sheet, but if I can get four paper dolls per sheet, that makes things a lot more affordable.
The only issue becomes how to hole punch the right areas. My hole punch can only go in so far, the layout of the characters has to be done in such a way that I can reach each hole without bending the paper. That's why I thought organizing each paper doll into one quarter of a page would work better, I can have more side surface available that way, it'd still fit into a zip lock baggie and it'd still be able to be mailed flat.
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