More Book Progress
(Pen and Pencil on Paper)
Finally working on the actual design for the next book. I’m not tooling this one, which will save me a significant amount of time. Tooling something this complex would take me months, and I have other pieces to be working on. Here’s what a tooled piece looks like:
(Vegetable Tan Leather, Dye)
That book took me three months to tool and it’s half the size of the current project. Someday I’ll make a twisty dragon tooled book….
Maybe.
Book Progress
I haven’t decided yet if I’ll count working on leather as part of my 365. Right now I’ve almost finished the test version of the new book (it still needs its tie) and I'm starting the layout for the final design.
(Red Leather Book; Pencil on Paper)
The original drawing was for a book without the front flap and it wasn’t drawn to size, so I have to redesign it. The original drawing is below.
(Ink on Paper; drawn after a trip to the ER for a malfunctioning gallbladder and still high as a holy kite on Dilaudid)
I once told a friend that every dragon I draw just looks like a dog, so now that I have a dog, I make all my dragons look like him.
Fun With Scissors (#4ish)
(Digital; drawn on my phone)
Scissors are an excellent all-purpose tool that can keep the home safe and organized.
Sometimes I Ruin Shit...
…and no one dies so it’s fine.
If you’re under the assumption you’re getting through this reality without fucking up, you’re in for serious hurt. As an obsessive Type A monster-person, I am always in a state of serious hurt.
(Gouache Over Ink on Paper)
Also a lesson in cropping. Because I want to burn it slightly less when it’s cropped.
Small-Scale Test Run
(Pencil on paper)
Drawing patterns for book designs is a lot like drawing architectural plans…
…aside from the fact that buildings don’t fold. It sure would be neat if they did.*
(Videogames and websites are the best representations of folding architectural spaces and, not surprisingly, the best storytelling media we have.)
I like books a lot, but I only bind them for myself and only when I need a new journal. Thus: I am not spectacularly good at binding. I’m okay with that. Because I always try new things without mastering the old things, I have to do small versions of the new things to make sure I’m not about to burn through 100s of dollars worth of leather.
* fairly certain this was a sentence that came up during brainstorming for CONTROL over at Remedy, and when Danielewski wrote House of Leaves, and when the labyrinth section of Silent Hill 2 was designed and ad infinitum….