new icon, but just one so far

[ehyde]

"I should make a bookbinding icon. What if I took a nice pic of a stack of my favorite books I bound--" I said, forgetting for a moment that my book designs are most interesting on the front covers and very boring on the spines.

The books in the new icon are: pluck the stars - Moonlight Caught in Mutton Fat - Last of Our Kind - we waste the same day like nobody dies - Son of a Notorious Father and these are all fic recs too, btw.

I need to make other new icons too, if I'm going to be more active here. I want to make a Tai Sui icon, but there's no official art! Time to go take a picture of a tree I guess.

A couple days ago I thought, "this would be a great time for a friending meme," and spookykingdomstarlight is running a MDZS/CQL one now!

Comments

[ehyde]

ahhh I really would not say my stuff is professional quality to be honest, and there are a lot of the more traditional aspects of bookbinding I straight up don't know (leather? what's that?) The pictures I post online are the best pictures I could take of the best version of the book from its best angle, you know?
I started bookbinding about a year and a half ago, but I've done enough other crafting for years prior such that none of the tools or materials were really new to me, and that helped a lot with just jumping in. Actually, graphic design and typesetting is where I had the least experience, and where I think I've made the biggest improvements, but that's not very flashy.

[galadhir]

Heh, I was just saying over on my signwriting post that when it's your own stuff you can only see the flaws, while it takes other people to be able to see how good it looks. They do look very good!

I was also very impressed with the graphic design and typesetting! I've published my own books in the past and just having to choose between Draft 2 Digital's pre-made options was difficult enough.