Alright, I've got the first of many new projects to share today! This is a custom binding of on the same page, a Good Omens human!AU by Chekhov, in which Aziraphale and Crowley are both authors (one of religious literature, the other of smutty romances) who not only write parts of each others' books but also for the duration of the fic are pretending to be married so one of them can land a book deal. There's so much pining, friends. Pining all over the place. I even put pines on the cover.
We have skivertex green faux leather up there on the cover, for the spine and fore edge. I originally intended to do corner caps but I like this look better and it's easier to measure. Lots of long vertical lines. Title is in pewter HTV and no, I still have not learned my lesson about weeding swirly fonts. I will never learn. I wanted it to look like a romance novel with literary pretensions (this is a compliment) and it absolutely does. The tree print is scrapbook paper, though I've forgotten where I bought it. The story is set at a big fancy house in the woods in Vermont, so it's perfect.
Have a look under the cut for more photos!
Photo of the spine, in which the swirly script font persists. I really wanted this book to be a flatback but it had just a bit too much swell, so it got rounded. The bookmark is dark gray, matching the htv, and the endbands are handmade. The leather extends further on one side than the other, I know. We are none of us perfect. It's damn cute though.
The endband colors were chosen to match these endpapers. Funny enough, they were bought for a different story. This fic is set at Christmas time, though it isn't actually about Christmas, so these ones with more of a winter motif were a good fit (better than they would have been for the story I bought them for, which was overtly a Christmas Fic). This theme continues once we get inside.
The title page has a holly frame. The setting is strong in this fic, out in the woods and kind of cozy, so it felt right to use a lot of greenery.
The image on the left up there, with the pinecones, originally had a twee little scene with a horse-drawn carriage in the middle. It was adorable but didn't suit the story, and that frame was too good to pass up, so I edited it out and put this quote from the author's Chapter 1 summary in there. None of the other chapters had the kind of summary that would work for this, but I thought this one worked really well to set the scene, so it's the only one I kept. And we have more holly in the frame around the chapter numbers. I grayed this one out so it wouldn't fight with the text. It was a little dominating when I had it in black. This softened it up. All the images are via rawpixel and in the public domain.
And that's that! The first of many. Hope you liked!
Slapped some color (and a shiny new watermark!) on the Good Omens sketch from earlier this week. It’s great getting back into painting again, even if I switched rendering styles every other hour, haha! I especially loved working on Aziraphale’s wings and Crowley’s hair.
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