Leyacer, but she arts

A collection of some nerd's attempts to draw things Consists of OC art and fanart for various fandoms

[leyartser]

Hey, this is Evedawalrus (on my main acct ofc). A friend of mine who helped me with New River asked if you could possibly take a picture of one of the author's notes in your physical copy. Would that be alright? It's the one for Chapter 4 where I mention my friend Bernie. Either way, thank you so much!

Of course, here you go!

[leyartser]

I really like New River by @gncgang so I turned it into a book!

Additional pictures and yapping below the cut

I was following this fic back when it was being released a few years ago, and really enjoyed at the time. I moved on from Jojo over the following years, but when I compiled some shorter Jojo fics for a different book a few weeks ago, I fell in love with the series again. That's when I remembered this fic, which then became my next project.

For my previous books, I had been using self-adhesive vinyl for the cover decorations. However, there's always the risk of it peeling off, which I really didn't want to happen with this book, and I also wanted to try something new. So, I decided use heat-transfer vinyl.

That also allowed me to use a more intricate cover design, courtesy of BeeSplendid (I have made some of my own cover designs in the past, but they're rather simplistic and I don't enjoy making them all that much) To make 100% sure I wouldn't mess up I did two practice rounds of ironing on a design, which helped a lot with getting the actual cover right.

That said, of course I had to include the original cover artwork in some way, so here it is adorning the title page.

I was also trying something new with this fic in the sense that it is the thickest book I have made so far. I actually had to make the font 1pt smaller than my usual go-to font size to keep it a little manageable (it still reads fine dw)

I generally leave a fic untouched when I'm formatting it for printing. I compare the way it looks in my file carefully to how it looks on AO3 and try to fix any weirdness that comes from transferring the text from AO3 to my editor, and I move the notes to a section in the back.

The only arguably major change I made was adding custom dividers. As I did so, I paid close attention to how different types of dividers were used in the fic so that I could keep that aspect intact when I replaced them with custom ones.

The book turned out perfectly, except that I discovered as I was going through the finished book just now that I fucked up the placement of one sheet in one signature so now there's a few pages out of order around chapter 10 :( Mildly devastating but c'est la vie I guess

[gncgang]

Oh my god????? When I saw this on my activity feed I honestly wondered if it could be real, because I just couldn't believe someone would bind one of my fics! It looks absolutely stunning! I love the care you put into making it—the design of the cover, the inclusion of my little pixel art cover inside, the custom dividers!!! It's all so lovely!

I was actually thinking about New River recently and reflecting on how my writing skills have grown since I wrote it. It truly touches me that people still enjoy reading it despite the flaws that now seem quite evident to me in hindsight (I did so much head-hopping, haha). To think, someone liked it enough to print and format it into a physical BOOK!

I'm going to save these pictures and look at them whenever I'm feeling down about my work. You've done a wonderful job, and I cannot thank you enough for choosing to make New River real!!!!!! C:

[leyartser]

Reading and rereading this with a big stupid grin on my face, I’m so happy you like it!! I really can’t think of much else to say, except thank you so much for writing the fic in the first place! I remember looking forward to new chapters back when it was first being posted, and then it became something that really tested my current skill in formatting and bookbinding!

It was a joy to work on this, and I’m enjoying reading your fic again now that I’ve finished making it into a book, hehe

[leyartser]

I really like New River by @gncgang so I turned it into a book!

Additional pictures and yapping below the cut

I was following this fic back when it was being released a few years ago, and really enjoyed at the time. I moved on from Jojo over the following years, but when I compiled some shorter Jojo fics for a different book a few weeks ago, I fell in love with the series again. That's when I remembered this fic, which then became my next project.

For my previous books, I had been using self-adhesive vinyl for the cover decorations. However, there's always the risk of it peeling off, which I really didn't want to happen with this book, and I also wanted to try something new. So, I decided use heat-transfer vinyl.

That also allowed me to use a more intricate cover design, courtesy of BeeSplendid (I have made some of my own cover designs in the past, but they're rather simplistic and I don't enjoy making them all that much) To make 100% sure I wouldn't mess up I did two practice rounds of ironing on a design, which helped a lot with getting the actual cover right.

That said, of course I had to include the original cover artwork in some way, so here it is adorning the title page.

I was also trying something new with this fic in the sense that it is the thickest book I have made so far. I actually had to make the font 1pt smaller than my usual go-to font size to keep it a little manageable (it still reads fine dw)

I generally leave a fic untouched when I'm formatting it for printing. I compare the way it looks in my file carefully to how it looks on AO3 and try to fix any weirdness that comes from transferring the text from AO3 to my editor, and I move the notes to a section in the back.

The only arguably major change I made was adding custom dividers. As I did so, I paid close attention to how different types of dividers were used in the fic so that I could keep that aspect intact when I replaced them with custom ones.

The book turned out perfectly, except that I discovered as I was going through the finished book just now that I fucked up the placement of one sheet in one signature so now there's a few pages out of order around chapter 10 :( Mildly devastating but c'est la vie I guess

[leyartser]

GioGio

[leyartser]

Where does he get the money for $800 pants. How expensive is his wardrobe

[leyartser]

Wuh oh

[leyartser]

I love Diamond is Unbreakable in case you didn't know

(flipped version under cut)

Crusty serial killer

[leyartser]

I've recently learned how to bind books, in no small part because I wanted to turn some of my favorite fics into books! This is my binding of What's Become of You by @backfliips!

Sadly my printer tends to wash out colors, and I messed up the outer margins a little, and so on and so forth, but for my second time ever turning a fic into a book, I'm pretty proud of how it turned out!

[leyartser]

Flowering

[leyartser]

Rewatching Diamond is Unbreakable and drawing Josuke, 2022 we are so fucking back

[leyartser]

At this point it's basically tradition for me to draw a portrait of my character for a new campaign

[leyartser]

I can participate in my wednesday campaigns again after having a bookbinding course for a few weeks so I drew the goobers

[leyartser]

The Enigmatix Club, here to save the day!

[leyartser]

Excited about what the @sonic-god-complex team is cooking 👁️👁️

[leyartser]

Can't wait to hear more of these two

[leyartser]

Redrawing old art is fun especially when that old art involves a gratuitous amount of rainbows

[leyartser]

Robo-Sonic for @sonicboomrevisited's DTIYS! Lowkey lost my mind over the details during the line art stage but getting to shade shiny metal after that made it all worth it

Go read the comic, it's really good!

[leyartser]

@sonicboomrevisited

Safe for PDF!

If there’s still space that is, haha