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Eye bags aren't deep enough rip

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To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X Chang is out!

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Dust jacket illustrationd one for my Chainsaw Man vol 02 rebind

Midsommar parody featuring Power

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Chainsaw Man Vol. 02 by Fujimoto Tatsuki

Oh gosh, this rebind has been sitting in my bookshelf finished since December last year - it just took me foreeeeeveeeer to finish the dust jacket illustration.

About the rebind: ✦ featuring Power on both the hardcover and dust jacket as the original cover also features Power ✦ dust jacket illustration is a Midsommar parody - a nod towards Fujimoto's love for the cinema ✦ duo bookcloth and htv vinyl for the hardcover

Volume 01 and volume 09 (collab with @bound2bb) have already been done, please check out my profile to see them :) Gonna be tackling volume 10 next (ft. Makima)

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After a decent chunk of time with UPS firmly placing themselves on my shit list, my Valentine's exchange has finally arrived safe and sound.

Howl's Moving Castle is one of my absolute favorite stories and it felt so perfect for this exchange.

I was so fortunate to get permission for the prettiest artwork to base the entire design around from @britishmuffin Thank you so so much!

I had a blast drawing the flowers for the background vinyl design and just making this the most floral design ever. 🤣

Materials:

Bookcloth - Japanese bookcloth celery (hollanders)

Gold vinyl - vinyl frog

Charm - Amazon

End pages - recollections

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Elena complaining about the Corel desert hear and whose idea it was to make the suits black is so funny when you know that in the OG FF7, the turk's suit were dark blue but square enix changed it to black over time

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some messy Shachi and Penguin doodles (while doing a Barbie rewatch)

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So Much (For) Stardust by Fall Out Boy

Bind made for a Fall Out Boy trade with beardeddogbindery

Christy and I chatted about FOB and doing an album exchange while I was attending a FOB concert - I know there are a lot of Swifties out there, so it's nice to also bump into another FOB and be able to do a small trade together ((if there are more Fall Out Boy fans out there, don't be shy let us know))

Christy told me that she hasn't really listened to much of the newer Fall Out Boy stuff - I knew that lot of the older fans didn't like any of FOB's post-hiatus works. SMFS was described by FOB as "[the album] sounds closer to a continuation of their 2008 record Folie à Deux", which I thought might be a good "re-introduction" into FOB's newer music. I also really really really really like this album myself lmfao.

✦ illustrations are done on Procreate, everything was typesetted on Clip Studio Paint 0/10 I do not recommend typesetting on CSP lmfao ✦ Printed on A4 folio and then cut down to 148x148 mm because I wanted the lyrics book to be square and resemble an album ✦ original album cover features a painted dog. Christy has two VERY ADORABLE puppers. The only logical approach here is to draw one of her dogs and slap it onto the cover ✦ Dog illustration + endpapers + title page + some other pages are foiled using black foil! It was my first time working with black foil. It's very subtle ✦ Backside text is done on holographic reflective HTV, to add a bit of surprise effect and make it glow like a star

Please go check out @beardedogbindery's page for her two adorable quarto binds (I got two binds. two!!!)

So Much (For) Stardust typeset will be available at request for personal binding too! .

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I Wish You Were My Husband by Feynite

book & clamshell box for @towns-end-bindery for the Renegade California Mini Exchange!!! THE REVEAL!!!! wow its been so long since i started this it feels kind of unreal haha

this exchange sent me on a journey through so many lovely fics and new fandoms that were a delight to explore! i have Learned Things about svsss and honestly the more i hear the more excited i am to (eventually!!) finally read it

about the bind itself, it was a bit of a ride. i learned like 5 new skills in total, including:

- cover cutouts

- suminagashi edges

- my first book box!!

- chisel trimming edges by myself, which, um, definitely couldve gone better but it was fine after a few hours of sanding

- using REAL TOOLS???? lost count how many times i forgot i have a bone folder and made my book arts teacher take psychic damage

i fiddled with the typeset for several months, but in the end finished the book like a month early. so naturally my hubris rose from the dead and decided that making my first box would be a great idea!

i finished it with like 12 hours to spare before i was heading to the airport because i never learn

big thanks to fran for organizing this and congrats to everyone participating!!! WE CAME!!!

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I loaf you? I loathe you? I love you?

who knows

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apparently my type of fictional men are: over 6'3" tall, carries a long ass sword, has a very tragic sad story and hates the ruling goverment because of what they did to them. Probably socially awkward, and has a dry sense of humor. Gotta squint to catch the joke but when you do you realize they're so funny. Broody, but very smart. Seem unapproachable but their tight circle of friends are the goofiest people known to Earth. Have so much love inside but they show it in subtle and not very obvious ways. Needs a hug and probably a chair in the face too.

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I am once again wondering why I have never seen this floating around tumblr before

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I have never read a more excellent article

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excellent news from usps--i can now talk about this beauty!! i had the pleasure of typesetting and binding @the-furthest-city-light's wonderful zolu fic spill your wine and it was a ride from start to finish (repurposed prototypes and injuries included). overall, i'm extremely pleased it how it turned out!!

this was a full fabric, square-backed case binding with a peek through cover showcasing a heat transfer foiled title on the (red, burgundy, gold) endsheet (and a hidden katana design to match the charm). things got a bit weird near the spine because i didnt anticipate my glue acting funky under the heat, but live and learn! the outside covers turned out plenty clean.

the edges are painted with matte black acrylic and sealed with beeswax, and the bookmark is a little 4mm burgundy silk number tipped with a gold clasp and katana charm (of course). the silk is very thin/fragile, so in the future i think ill double the length i use.

i also had a great time typesetting this! when i first read this i knew i wanted to do something that was both angular/modern and ornately victorian (with a red, black, gold scheme). this had to be decadent and beautifully clash-y, because nothing less would suffice for the kind of author who'd use a verse from the canticle of canticles as the summary for a fic series like this. truly iconic. nerds will notice that this is a little visually reversed from the way books are traditionally typeset, which is also intentional. i think it fits the vibe of the bind and the fic. i hope the vision came through.

this was actually the second case i built; i wasnt happy with the first one so i ripped it up and made a notebook (with the front and back covers) and bookmark (from the spine) for dani, which was a fun little experiment. i just... didnt take any pictures, apparently?

overall this was a really fun and challenging project, and i cant believe its done!!!! wow!!!

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Acclimating by @justira

Bound this for my resident Luffy/Law appreciator.

🫀 Painted Law’s tattoos on the linen cover;

🫀 Chose the Secret Belgian binding to echo the sutures motif I chose for the scene breaks;

🫀 Hearts for title page and chapter headers, because of course!

🫀 BlackFlag as a title font again, because I firmly plan to include it in all of my One Piece binds.

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Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

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Since I'm re-reading One Piece again, let's do a little fanart challenge! Drop a character name in the replies and I'll pick some of them to draw!