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Finally updated procreate and played with the new brushes

#arcane #viktor #there are so many cool paint and texture options!!!! excited to keep trying them out #designtheendlessart

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I got to bind @valeriianz's Bolt in the Blue: a Sandman/Dreamling fic where the Endless are a rock band and Hob is a stage manager that impulsively becomes Dream's tech when they go on tour. The chapter art was done by @five-and-dimes, and many more artists contributed to the mini posters in the back cover pocket.

This bind was a challenge for me, as I had the idea from the start to try and make it evoke Dream's guitar. That led to the raised bands on the spine (painted to look like guitar strings) and painted wood veneer on top of the leather covers.

For the typeset, I wanted to distinguish the singing from the speaking, and so went with both a different font and color. Since the chapters didn't have titles, I called them "Tracks" and the table of contents ended up as the "Setlist" to be part of the theme.

It was a lot of fun (if stressful at times) to experiment with so many different new techniques in one bind. I'm not sure if I'd repeat some of these techniques in the future, but for this, they worked out really well and I'm happy with how they came out.