Little appreciation post for everyone whoβs liked, reblogged, and left such kind words on my Pride Month post featuring JD and Hickoryππππ
Thank you so much! Not to get too deep here but as someone who struggles so badly with perfectionism and putting art out there bc you see everything imperfect with everything you makeβit means the world to me that people are enjoying my art!
Was worried I wouldnβt finish this piece before the end but I did it!!
Characters featured are Hickory and John Dory from Great Decisions by @rydoesartandstuff plus(and Iβm super proud of this) the background and flowers are the colors of the gay and demisexual flags!
Also I am aware that John is supposed to be gray(which I did at the start) but him being colorful in the piece just fit better I hope itβs okay
Also also another little sneak peak of something else Iβve been working on
Itβs not much ik but Iβll be sharing more soon!
Again, Happy Pride Month and I hope everyone has a good rest of the year!!
I absolutely love Project Hail Mary as much as the next guy and Bloodymary has become one of my biggest comfort pairings in the longest time, but if I may have everyone's attention,
If you see a post that is just Iron Lung, especially when it's tagged as "Just Blood" would you refrain from bringing PHM into it?
It's beyond 'tumblr etiquette' because honestly everyone should do what they want for the rest of their lives so long as it's harmless, but Iron Lung is already completely overshadowed by PHM. Not every Iron Lung fan likes PHM, even ones that do don't want everything to be about that crossover.
I adore Iron Lung and I love PHM, but I want to be able to appreciate the art and lore and story and effort of Iron Lung, as a movie and game and as an indie work made to push against "Big Hollywood" without having to also think about Big Hollywood the Movie Featuring Mr Big Hollywood
Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.
Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.
And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.
Okay, I am LATE but this post is dedicated to Great Decisionsβ 2-year b-day!! π₯³π
Sad, I wasn't ready for the official date, but I gave myself a week, and here we are! I am making a bookbind for Great Decisions by @rydoesartandstuff!! A beautiful story that honestly deserves better than what I can give it! But I'm gonna give it my best shot
So here's a couple of pages as I am currently still in the typeset
Overall info:
I am planning on yapping about this for a sec, so here's a summary!
The illustrations you see are not done and are temporary to see what they would look like in the typeset. Goin' for Trolls scrapbook and paperdolls
There's going to be at least 4 books. The current PDFs are for a 7 x 5 book because that's what I have for supplies but I am planning on making another set for A4 paper.
Currently the first book is over 921 pages on Word, but when printed, that should be cut by about half in irl.
The four books are: 1 = The wilderness + Pop Village, 2 = Trolls + The JD Depression ark, 3 = TWT + The JD bandaid ark, 4 = TBT + ???
Might be five books, depending on how long the last two arcs are, and if I want to make a book for the author's notes + QnA answers + art stuff!
So I'm making these books for me, which just means they will be up to my standards and not necessarily "professional" in any way. If anyone has advice or fun facts for me, I would love to read them! Also questions are more then welcomed as well!
I think this will take me a long time, and I'm kinda excited for it!
Illustrations:
The currently shown art is not the final, but I wanted to show what I was thinking and it helps me see what it might look like. I am trying to make the art look kinda like Poppyβs scrapbooks and kinda like paper dolls while still having some of that illustration vibesss. I'm liking how it's turning out! I want to add more textures as that is such a big part, to me, from the Trolls movies!
I'm thinking about making the full illustration the chapter heading itself but this will most likely be the only one that is, if I do. So far I want every book to have a pre-book illustration to show The Boiβs current state. I just think it would be nice.
I was also hoping to wait for Ry to answer my latest ask but I waited too long to ask them! Because I kinda wanted more of their answers before they realized what I was using it for, I guess if they don't read this, I'll be fine lol! but
I have asked Ry what some of their favorite/iconic scenes they think of with certain parts of the books, and Iβm planning on illustrating most of those scenes! Plus a bit of my personal favorites. Some are going to be small doodle illustrations to the side or something, but I would like to do every scene they mention!
I haven't drawn illustrations for my bookbinds before so uh, hopefully I'm not giving myself too much hah! I'm excited and I'm planning on taking my time with it
Font:
I might mess with the chapter heading font. I'm not sure if I'm happy with it but it's nice right now.
The drop cap (the fancy first letter~) I made if you can't tell lol. The font I think might be a bit too thick but overall I like it! I wanted a leafy and like heavy lettering that I just couldn't find so I tried making a font for the first time!
If anyone sees anything funky, let me know! I have no idea what makes a "good font."
Typeset:
I'm kinda close to being done with the typeset. I'm messing with the frontmatter right now with how I want to arrange it and what exactly I want in it. Like, do I want all the tags at the start or put them in an appendix at the end? Where do I want the illustration and the quote? Is the illustration going to be on the right side or left? That kind of thing
And I would like to make a custom table of contents. I don't really like the ones on Word. I'm not quite sure how to do that yet, besides just drawing one out manually once I'm all done messing with the pages. So we will see!
So, book one is practically all done with typesetting until I get the illustrations done, then I just have to redo the drop caps to make sure they all look nice!
I'm working on two and three at the same time.
I'm not planning on starting on four until the story gets concluded!
Books:
There's gonna be four books, so far. The PDFs are for a 7 x 5 book since I think small book cute, plus the supplies I already have for bookbinding are for that size.
Book one will be = The wilderness + Pop Village, Book two = Trolls + The JD Depression ark, Book three = TWT + The JD bandaid ark, and Book four = TBT + ???
Then I think I might make an Appendix-type book just as a bonus? Right now I have eatch Author notes at the end of each book in an appendix, but I think it might be kinda cool to have a seperate book to read that. Though I don't know if it might just be annoying to have to grab and keep track of.
So! I think to make it cooler and worth having a whole book for this, I could put answers to QnA's in it and maybe some art! Either the author's own work for each character as a reference, or maybe some of the fan art in there too, as kinda a history thing to have!
Also, it would make the Story books shorter, which might be a plus
Pages as of today on Word for any who are curious
Book one: 921 (The Great Creator wrote so much for the gremlin children, and I love it- Especially since they wanted to write more XD)
Book two: 626
Book three: 760
Conclusion:
Thank you, Ry, for making a cool story and sticking with it as best you can! I think we all can tell how much love and care you put into eatch chapter!!!
I'm very happy to have a new long-term project to work on! I'm also excited to have this story on my shelf!!!!!
To 2 years of "Great Decisions." The coolest, emotional, funny, musical, action-packed, and heart wrenching Trolls AU story I've ever read. Some are based on the chapters, a couple of future ones, and even the sketch I got from the author as a gift.
@rydoesartandstuff HIII Good afternoon sjjsj I saw the audio on TikTok and I couldn't help but imagine it with John and his beloved brothers who are with him through thick and thin πββοΈ
yeahhh, they can take care of each other out there γ γ γ
my shaylas ( Λα― Λ)
made a matching drawing to my Iron Lung fanart, because to me, they are two sides of the same coin (same side of the coin, imo) they go hand in hand π€ also the little kibty is named Felicette! she was the first cat to go to space and come back safely π₯Ή she is often forgotten in the history of space travels, and for what she had to go through, i wanted to have her here as well because she deserves it π§
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