#wip interview with a vampire

[zhalfirin-binds]

WIP interview with a vampire

Part III turn-in’s (or how I fucked them up and fixed them)

Working with cork cloth turns out to be an interesting experience. It combines a couple of qualities I did not expect. For once it’s rather reluctant to get glued down. I used undiluted PVA and still had to do each side separately and let it sit with a weight on top a moment for the glue to stick before I could keep going.

When working with it it behaves a bit like leather and a bit like cloth. The good thing there is, it stretches slightly similar to leather. Not quite as far, but a bit. The bad thing, there’s glue everywhere as if working with un-backed cloth (the good thing of the bad thing, somehow stains don’t show on the cork, so as long as your hands and the glue stay clean you’re good).

With the rather thick material I went for the same way I do leather corners. I took of the tip off the corner and left a small flap at the long side turn-in to cover the corner securely. Then I cut the corner as I usually would, safe the flap...  and this is where things went wrong. the angle wasn’t right and I had a gap between both turn in’s leaving a strip of board visible in the end. The cork cloth does stretch, but not that far. Luckily I keep cut-off’s until I’m done (yeah, this is not a first time experience for me -_-’) so I could glue on the ‘right’ strip of cork to fix it almost invisibly. 

Then I glued the short side turn-ins, cut along the edge of the turn-in in a 45 degree angle and peeled out the excess material from under the short side turn-in. I could have left it, but that way I’d have kind of bumpy corners and with the other material peeled out the corner is completely smooth.

[orsanedraws]

painting someone nasty

[ivyithink]

“His name was Magnus. He took me from my room in Paris, as I kicked and screamed.”

bonus version with the shadow of magnus but no text, because I’m indecisive and, after debating with myself over which one to post, decided to just post both…

[sentientsky]

“She never begs. She never gives any ground. She knows that she's right.”

(this is still a wip, but i’m not sure if i’ll actually get around to properly finishing it—i’m posting this here just in case)

[avawoodwedx]

here come the superstar💅🏻

WIP

[phantasymistart]

it appears the beautiful vampires have invaded my brain again…

[ruinscollector]

Couldn't help myself so, here have a tiny doodle (kinda inspired by this post: https://speckled-jim.tumblr.com/post/754684069363810304/ )

ART-ONLY ACC >> @nuisdrawing

[rsephys]

(this is a wip... ill finish it soon) uhhh im completely normal about them. so so so normal. hahaha guys right this is so normal and fine.

[wisesnail]

Have I ever told you that I enjoy painting blood (even if it freaks me out in real life)? So this Lestat is the perfect excuse to indulge this quirk of mine! <;

[erebus0dora]

imma wait for the nightfall to proceed the full image but you kinda see the direction it goes, i guess..?

[zhalfirin-binds]

WIP Interview with a vampire

Part IV titling

Sadly titling did not go as planned. For some reason the copper foil did not stick on the self made bookcloth. I flattened the fabric, tried to increase heat, pressure, pressing time. Increasing the time was the only ting tht did make a difference, but still it was not a good result, I tried black foil, which stuck very well though.

I did a short test with copper over black, but it did not lead to reliably good results so I gave up on that too.

I do like the patchy grunge look, but not for this book. I also took the chance to test one of my brass clichés to hot stamp some ornament. I’m not good enough to do that by hand. The pressure is still completely uneven, luckily a friend added small rods to the back so I can put the smaller ones into the hot stamping press.

[thora-otg-xp]

some Claudia and Madeleine sketches and a Claudia WIP because university is starting

[barnespls]

Everything you’re about to see is real.

[palaceoftheprophets]

In celebration of getting a third season, have some messy Rockstar Lestat sketches inspired by Måneskin.

(Edited to add the TikTok the idea came from!)

[aeijis]

✌️🩸

[lizweirdo]

happy pride month to daniel malloy and his bisexual lighting