Exercise Numero Dos from No Fail Watercolor. What did I learn?
Watercolor takes forever to dry (duh) and maybe I should get another drawing board so I can switch between projects while waiting.
Trying to draw on the paper while it's wet will just create a chisel line in the paper.
Even if you accidentally mix blue into your yellow it may still turn out looking okay.
Detail brushes won't be here for a week, so I made do with a no. 6. Made do? Made due?
In other news, I'm re-listening to the entire Murderbot series upon the release of the latest book. Please go check it out, it's great. First book in the series is All Systems Red by Martha Wells.
idea: batman and the robins never acknowledge that there have been different robins. like they all act that there's only been one and that they're the same person basically.
Justice League who's used to teen dick not kid jason: who is this child?
Batman: what do you mean, it's robin.
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Batman and Tim walking through the watchtower:
Justice League who remembers robin literally dying: ...*side eye*...
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Flash: batman⊠who is this?
Batman: robin. youâve met before. several times.
Flash: no, i met a black haired boy. this is a blonde girl!
Batman: her name is robin
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Superman: it's time for you to explain. where are you getting all these children?
Batman: i have no idea what you're talking about.
Superman *pointing to damian*: who is this kid?!
Damian: i'm robin. i'm offended you would even ask that? don't you remember *proceeds to recite a story dick told him of his robin days*
I like to think whenever Tim's plans go awry he keeps a straight face and hopes everything works out so he can pretend that whatever went horribly wrong was the plan the whole time.
Tim falling off the side of a building internally: Oh Shit OH Fuck OH GOD
Dick catching him:
Tim not willing to admit he thought he could take Ras in a fight: ... I knew you would catch me.
I don't know what I'm doing. I know I want to be an author/artist, and that means I need to write more, and art more, so here's an art. A really bad art, but I'm okay with making bad art. I'll make myself okay with making bad art, because you need to make a lot of bad art so that you can make good art. Things I learned: - Pencil marks will still show through watercolor (duh) - I need an actual detail brush, instead of the size 2 junk I got years ago in a cheap pack - My desk and drawing board are not the most attractive backgrounds to take these photos against This exercise is from Mako's No-Fail Watercolor. #myart #watercolor #nofailwatercolor #watercolorpaintingideas #watercolorforbeginners #watercolorbook #watercolortechniques
Love and Other Historical Accidents by @pacific-rimbaudâ
Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy never intended to blow up their lifeâs work, but thatâs rather what theyâve gone and done. Now theyâre trapped 200 years in the past, with a broken Time Turner, a missing snuff box, a handful of overly-eligible daughters, and a House-elf in a cable knit cardigan. It will require the combined power of their keen intellects to get them home, if theyâd stop arguing long enough to use them.
As it turns out, history is just one damned accident after another.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Relationship: Hermione Granger x Draco Malfoy
Art by @gingerhuneybeeâ, @jjuuppiterâ, @jaxxartboxâ, & yours truly
My first fanbind!Â
L&OHA is an impeccable story and is so very dear to me. This was the fic that made me go âI want that on my shelf!â, so here we are.Â
keep reading for more binding info and to see my gushing on the fic.
Restoration is (among other things) a Yiling Wei Sect au, so I went with a strong red and black color scheme. Stenciled titles -- one copy of this book, the one pictured here, had black cloth, and the other leather, so I got to try out stenciling on both materials. The endpapers are unryu tissue layered over construction paper, and the headband is a wrapped chevron style (thanks to @no-name-publishing's demo video).
To be completely honest, I chose the art deco font for the titles because I was idly browsing font sites (as one does), saw this, said "that looks so cool, too bad I can't use an art deco font for an MDZS fic" and then I said "...OR CAN I?" and I did. However the author said they thought it was a fitting aesthetic for the post-Sunshot-Campaign vibes, so, there you go!
This is an octavo sized hardcover of Cicada Sings Amongst Bamboo by @shadaras!
I didn't want my Tiny Books Bang assignment to be my first attempt at binding, so I reached out to Shadaras and typeset this fic to be the same page size as that typeset. It really did help to have another fic to practice on before moving on to the Tiny Books Bang books, and I'm excited to have this fic as the start of my collection. It really fits the vibe of a lot of my taste in fic... I definitely plan to bind a lot more canon divergence and rarepairs in the future!
I will also be working on an author's copy of this bind, it is just put on hold until FFWAD is sent off! I'll be able to fix a few minor issues, particularly the size of the book boards (these ones are a little too wide for the textblock).
The bookcloth is homemade from a piece of fabric that's been in my stash for years (too small for a lot of things) and I found the endpapers recently! I was also able to sew head/endbands, which turned out better than I had expected. I originally wanted to add a ribbon bookmark, but I ended up deciding that the ribbon I had was too wide.
I'm also really happy with how the typeset turned out for this! I had to adjust the title page several times to fix issues with the margins, but it was worth it. I also found some great public domain images to reference the title on the title page and the beginning of the story (since this is a one shot!)
My favorite spread is pages 68 & 69! It shows off so much of my formatting, including the section dividers and the shaded background for letters (copied from the original fic on AO3). But what I really love is on page 69: "a gap full of ink drops and dried scratches!"
Altogether I'm really happy with how this turned out, and I'm excited to make another copy đ
