Analog Andr0id -- Art Blog

side blog for my art. mostly traditional, mostly nerdy. Buy me a coffee?........... https://ko-fi.com/analogandr0id

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catching up on 'My Adventures with Superman' and i had to do a doodle of their halloween costumes ^^ i love these two sm its unreal

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quick and dirty sketch of my oc Dameon in a maid outfit bc i remembered that im the master of my own universe >:)

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some patches i made with linocuts!

im selling these along with a few stickers on my Ko-fi :)

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went to the library recently to draw bugs from books :) it was a nice time

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old-ish pinterest studies i did while playing around with acrylic gouache

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Artfight attack for my friend stagdreaam!! This is Lucius, hes sad and i love him

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"But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen?' I had most need of blessing, and Amen stuck in my throat."

i got like 99 percent of the way through drawing this for inktober/cursedrelics before realizing its literally just three cheers for sweet revenge.

so anyway heres my interpretation of the the cursed relics "Crown" prompt ft. Macbeth

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another print!! ive been a fan of su for a long time but hadnt ever done any fanart until now.

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rewatched Arcane in preparation for season 2!! plus i needed an excuse to try out some inks

(ps. ill be turning this piece into a print as well!)

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Looking for something to do on October 5? In the Little Tokyo Galleria Mall, we're hosting a small art market! Attendance is free and tables for vendors are also free! We have so many different vendors, a raffle going, and just the feeling of community.. please come on by~

Thank youu!

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Redraw of one of my favorite movies of all time!! if all goes well, ill be selling this as a print at LA Artist's Alley in October!

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portrait of my strawberry plant :)

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some more of my dnd pc Dameon!! wanted to get another pic of him up for artfight :]

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Fore Edge Painting: A Tutorial

I said I would write up a walk through for how I painted those books, and here it is, only three months late!

I had kind of a hard time finding good sources when I was learning to do this, so I thought it might be good to write up my process for posterity or whatever. The sources I did use included this guide which is a rough overview of everything, as well as this video on how to gild the book pages.

Supplies you'll need for this are:

Sandpaper. I have stuff from 120 - 3000 grit.

Some sort of book clamp. Professionals use a proper book clamp for this, but I didn't feel like woodworking so I've hacked my own using 2 paint stirrers and 2 mini wood clamps.

Watercolor paints + brushes

Heat activated foil. This is the kind of thing people use to make embossed wedding invitations; the video I put above has links on where to buy this.

PVA glue

An iron

The first part of this is sanding down the pages. This is so you have a really smooth surface for the foil to attach to later, and we have to do it before painting or you'd sand the painting right off.

So clamp the book so the pages are all straight, and I sand it from low to high grit. I try and get this as absolutely smooth as possible. Once it's sanded down, I wipe off the dust using a tissue paper so it doesn't interfere with painting in the next step.

Now I clamp the book at an angle for painting. Try to get the angle as steep as possible - it makes for a better illusion in the final product. Since I'm not using a real book clamp that has a platform to support the bottom pages, I've propped some of those blue notepads under there to keep the pages from drooping.

To paint, I'm just transferring over a drawing in light pencil, then applying watercolors. There's nothing all that special about the painting process; the main thing you have to be careful of is not to have too much liquid on your brush. The paint will bleed into the pages and you'll be able to see some splotches when you have the book open. So I work in relatively thin layers here.

After painting, all that remains is gilding the page edges with foil. I'm gonna run up against the image limit here, so that's gonna come as part two in a chained reblog.

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Ok, gilding the pages. This process is pretty much lifted straight from that video I linked, so I would recommend watching that to get more visuals on how to do it. I'll mention some extra things that I found helpful, thought.

Once the paint is dry we can clamp the pages back straight.

I prepare a piece of foil that's just a little larger than the page surface. This is going to be adhered first with some PVA glue, then fused using the iron.

The glue needs to be watered down so it doesn't stick all the pages together. The ratio is going to vary depending on the glue you use; it does need to be viscous enough to adhere the foil. For my PVA glue I use much more water than glue; I also experimented with cheap Elmer's glue which is much less sticky, in which case the Elmer's glue needed to be more than half the mixture.

So I brush the glue water on the pages and drop the foil on top, working quickly. Then I iron over it on a low setting (around 1-2). I keep the iron on the pages for about 5 minutes.

After ironing, I let the whole thing cool completely before removing the foil's plastic backing - this can take an hour or more. I've found that letting it cool makes it much less likely for the foil to come off along with its backing.

So I peel off the clear plastic backing, and hopefully the foil has all stayed on. Gilding is honestly the most finicky step of all of this, and a lot of the time it just doesn't come out great. If the foil is patchy I may sand it off (being careful not to destroy the painting underneath) and start again.

But if everything turned out well, then you're done! All that remains at this point is the carefully separate the pages, if they did get kind of glued together.

Once they're all separated, fan out the pages and the painting will appear :OO

That's basically it. If you have questions about anything or if anything is unclear, feel free to message me!

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fanart i did of my friends dnd character! love satyrs :)c

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messy pencil Shadowgast based on a Leyendecker painting i really like :)c

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i meant to post this on this account! whoopsies oh well

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Ashley's description of Fearne holding oryms dead body really got to me....