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I’m doing my first ever fic binding, and I made some fun art for the cover, but I see everyone else tends to do minimalist stuff with some graphics and the titles and such?
And I do love that, but now I’m not sure that my cover is okay because it’s more like a fanart piece than the elegant covers I see people do for these…
Any advice?
I designed this mask recently while I was feeling in a mood for some Halloween creepy crawlies. The centipedes are made with a bookbinding stitch called a caterpillar stitch, which I've used on a few things.
Here it is for sale. I'm not sure if I'll make another one with the same design. I'd like to make more, but I'm enamored with the idea of rearranging the centipedes differently on each one I make.
POEMS by John Keats (London: George Bell, 1905) Art binding by A.&D. McGregor.
Some handmade journals I’ve been working on.
A bit of a video showcase for the gorgeous, gorgeous binding of Written by the Victors!!! @daemonluna typeset it and @rhipidurafan made this copy for me!! Things to notice--the absolutely gorgeous endpapers! The dyed blue edges! The different fonts--type for bibliography, and then, even more excitingly, later, different fonts for the poetry, the songs, the early and late Atlantian dialects segments. Absolutely beautiful. This sort of hand-made art just floors me; it's everything wonderful about fandom IMO!
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Hey everyone, feel free to ignore this if it makes you uncomfortable...
So as you all know, I'm actively building a home library. One of the things I want to add is a fanfiction section. I plan on binding all of my personal and my favorite fanfiction stories.
I want to do them either cloth or leather bound. I'm a huge fan of beautiful covers on vintage books. So here's what I'm looking for...
Illustrations. I want to include images in the fanfiction books, including images on the inside of the book covers. So obviously I want mostly Kagome, Sesshomaru, & SessKag images... But I'd like to include images of all the characters... Koga, InuKimi, Shippo, Rin, Kagura, Kanna, etc.
These books will NOT be sold/shared, they are for my personal collection.
If you have any Inuyasha A Feudal Fairy Tale images you're willing to share (any art style including AI or realism) please comment them below.
If you've seen me at conventions you may have noticed I sometimes have nice little cloth-bound notebooks for sale, along with my usual scribblings. In the interest of making my illustration work pay better now that I've lost my job, they are now up in my etsy shop! They're made with lightweight sketching paper, (cream, 96gsm, medium surface) so they're great for writing and drawing.
Wait, I can't remember if I mentioned losing my job before. If not, it was about two months ago, and I can't get too down about it as I was miserable there and I do have savings. Still, if you feel the need for a new notebook, please help my savings dwindle as slowly as humanly possible by purchasing one of mine!
Recently my co-worker paid me to make her some custom books. She wanted two in the same dimensions as a lined notebook she already had, but one which had plain paper so she could write in it horizontally, and one which opened at the short edge to form a very long, thin double page spread. That one also needed heavy paper, so she could paint in it if she wanted. It was a lot of fun making something different to my usual A6 notebooks, but cutting the pages to a custom size left me with a lot of off-cuts. So, naturally, I made those into books too. I got four mini notebooks out of them, in two different sizes. (I photographed them with an A6 book for comparison.) I'll have the minis to sell at Manchester MCM later this month.
One of my friends recently got married and asked me to make her a guestbook for the reception! I actually remembered to take process photos since I hadn’t tried anything like the little window in the cover fabric before, so here’s some pictures of the book in various stages. (None of the page block though, I forgot.) Since the book was square I had a lot of offcuts from the paper. I hate throwing away paper so I made myself two dinky little sketchbooks out of it!
Tried my hand at bookbinding this week using supplies I had laying around to practice some basics
Sharing to save. I'm totally doing this.
Simple book binding tutorial, very useful for making your own personalize Book of Shadows
Working on a thing hehe
Decorating the cover now!
I wanna save what it looks like for the end, but here's a sneak peak at the colour scheme
Phase One: Complete.
Now commencing Phase Two.
