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Captive Prince--short stories binding

My next completed project! This was something I had bound already, but it wasn't very pretty (it was one of my earliest bindings) and there were changes I wanted to make. So I present to you: my binding of @fahye's excellent Captive Prince short story collection!

This was a different kind of cover than I've previously done. This just has bookcloth over the spine, and then for the front cover I used cardstock with a toner-reactive foil to make the crown and laurel. Previously I've only been doing the bookcloth covers, both because it's a lot easier to make and because it's easier to design in some ways as well. But this one just came together like this, and I already had this deep blue paper, and it was just too good to pass up.

I wanted the picture on it to capture the feeling of the pictures used in the published editions of Captive Prince, but I also wanted to put my own spin on it. So it's a fancy crown with an olive branch inside of it, made to look like an old-timey etching.

More pics and rambling under the cut.

The title page, with the same design from the front (just smaller).

The endpapers, which are very pretty but also very thin. They were kind of a pain to work with and they went down pretty wrinkled-y but they're really pretty and you can't see it in the pictures but they are also very shiny and have ribbons of gold and silver ink running through them.

The title page. Avid readers might notice that I didn't include all of the short stories here, and added a few extra, and, well, I can do that because it's my binding! I wanted to have my favorite stories along with Run All the Lights and Dilation because those are also pretty short and I love those stories too.

On my bookshelf. One day it will be sitting next to the Polish editions which I WILL own before I die, I swear to god. I do kind of wish it was more obvious that this wasn't a rebinding of the original Captive Prince, which is kind of what it looks like from the cover, but it's just so fucking classy I couldn't bear to change anything about it.

Doing it the way I did--with the cloth binding and the paper cover--definitely meant a lot more measuring, and very precise measuring at that, which I'm never good at, but I think it turned out okay and everything looks mostly straight. And I'm getting better at making the textblock and the case and had less problems there than I normally do, which is awesome.

The gold on the bookcloth is my nemesis HTV. It went down about as well as it always does, which is to say not well (although, to be fair, the front cover was fine. It was the spine that gave me issues). At least there wasn't much of it this time, or anything too fiddly. The toner reactive foil, the stuff used on the crown/olive illustration--that stuff is awesome. I just printed it using my regular printer and then put the foil on and sent it through the laminator a few times. I don't think it would have been possible to get that effect with HTV, and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

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I made a little captive prince dustjacket for myself hehe ✨️

I was a little frustrated that I couldn't get the polish captive prince special editions 😔 (And the new US covers weren’t out yet, but I will definetly get those now!!)

So I went: 'Fine. I'll do it myself."

I don't know what got into me, but I started to add more and more to this and it ended up taking me 60 hrs 💀

Still not satisfied with everything (especially the font and frame) but it's ok, maybe I'll come back to that a little later ✨️

!Not everything is super accurate since it has been some time since I read the books and I (again 😭) didn't have them with me, while working on this!

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i don't know if anyone has done this before but this is literally my only thought while rereading 19 chapter of prince's gambit

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most recent laurent doodles 🌺

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My designs for The Captive Prince Trilogy book covers and its short stories!!

This has been months in the making, and thus making it the longest project I’ve ever worked on! I’m so excited it’s finally out in the world.

Please be sure to click and see each image because tumblr as per usual has dropped the quality quite significantly.

EDIT: You can now find the HD images to print or use as personal book cover here

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Captive Prince trilogy | Polish version | cover art by littleulvar

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obsession

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DISCLAIMER

The sleeping KDJ is from the official webtoon since I'm doing the trend I had to use the "canon" art.

Symbolisms in this picture:

Knowing the context of the trend we can notice that instead of the phone being the fanon drawing I drew it the opposite, the fans (readers') hands are holding up a phone taking a picture of kim dokja with their individual headcanon/fanon.

You can interpret each photos differently or have 0 interpretations at all, but yeah hand one shows KDJ's DKOS FORM, meanwhile the other shows KDJ smiling with a blue sky. The other 2 hands shows the 2 kids thst he dearly loves clutching to him.

I actually captioned this drawing on twitter "guess what is fanon and canon" since we're all kim dokja i believe that every headcanon-canon-fanon can be considered canon we create our own story our own interpretation of whatever ORV is trying to message.

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Commission

Laurent and Damen cosplaying some Gibli motifs^^

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more Captive Prince brain rot! (I’ve been rereading it again 🫣)

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has this been done before? I mean, spoilers for the demon realm arc

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Vampire Damianos?

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@lamenweek 2021: Day 2 - Folkore/Mythology

sun god!Damianos and moon god!Laurent are the gods that rule the sky. they deeply adored each other and wanted be as close as possible, but legend sadly says that they were only able to meet during the evening for a short amount of time :’))) cries

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@fanficandtheories surprise fanart! 🎁

Their fanfic story of Damen and Laurent is so good— 🥹🙏 it’s called…

…so I made fanart for their story. AAAAAhhhh 😭😭💕💖💖 check them out and read if you can!!!

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🍑 laurent’s peach looking a little ripe and tasty 😳💕 //modern!AU

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Laurent with bracelet and earrings