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  1. MisterBull
    So I've started on the next portion of the project: working on the decorative pieces for the inner covers. The piece in the picture is for the inner front cover. The cut panels are actually spaces for some illustration work that I plan to do. The four corner panels may just be ink drawings of different flowers or wildlife. The large center panel will be a pretty picture of a pony. I'm thinking either Fluttershy tending to some cute wildlife or Twilight Sparkle reading a book. I also plan on doing some emboss work on the black frame. Right now I'm trying to work out a good design for doing just that. The inner work for the back cover will be similar but with only one big panel with an antique-ish map of Equestria. The artwork will be inked and maybe water-colored (or some other coloring medium, I'll have to experiment) Concerning inner covers in general, most people would simply just glue the very first and very last pages to the cover boards and call it quits.. But here, I'm taking it a few steps further. I really want to make this journal look as ornate as I possibly can.
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    >fig #1 Finished applying the cardboard for embossing. The written numbers are to help in reference to where I'll be applying the embellishments. this image is saved for future references. >fig #2&3 Here you see the front and back view of what the cover looks like on the book itself. Its still not all put together just yet as I still have much more to do. But these images are just to give you a visual idea. >fig #4 And also for future reference for working on the embellishments, I've kept a few of the cut pieces to help give me a scale guide to work with. I have 8 hand made embellishment designs total that I'll need to make for the books outer cover. Once done with the finished designs I'll make a mold from each of them and use them to make all the needed pieces from polymer oven bake clay.
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    I'm on a roll today! Finished cutting up and piecing together the embossing bits for the front cover! (now I have the back cover and the spine to do, but those should be a bit more easier since I dont have much planned for those areas. ) I'm using cardboard from cerial boxes for this portion of the project since its nice and thick (but not too thick). Basically how this will work is that when I start applying the finishing fabric, I can simply go over it with an embossing stylus, pushing the material into the cut regions which in the end will make the book look more interesting. Some of those cut regions are placeholders for decorative hand made embellishments (For these, I'll be using polymer oven bake clay coated with liquid gold leaf.) Anyway, time to get back at it!
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    Victory! ... Okay, its not totally perfect, one of the cover boards came out just a tinge off (I'm trying to work that out) but overall, its not bad. >fig #1 Here you see the cover boards fully assembled. Do I really need to explain more? >fig #2 And here's what it looks like when you combine it with the book. No, its not glued together just yet as there are some other things I need to do beforehand. I think I should sand the pages down a bit more, and then start applying the stencils for the raised (embossed) edges of the finished cover material. But hey, its coming together! I'm rather excited!
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    Here you see the early stages of putting together the cover. I'm using black card paper here to combine the cover boards. I'm a bit concerned about my measurements here (as well as some of the badly trimmed bits of the board) but I feel it'll come together well I should note that the black paper is not the final material for the cover, it just helps to bring the boards and the book's spine together (forming the base of an actual book). I'll later apply cut pieces that will act as raised (embossed) edges and then work in the final cover material. But even then, I still wont be finished with this project.
  6. MisterBull
    Finished sewing. Applied some backing to the book. Sanded the edges. I'm exactly where I was at before I screwed up the last project with the gold leafing! Now I can go and work on the cover. But I'm going to take a break... I've been wanting to play some Skyrim for a while so maybe I'll go do that. c_c Or heck, I sorta miss working on Spikes Quest, so maybe I should revisit that project again. So much to do!
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    25 sewn signatures later... its 2 in the morning, maybe I should boil a pot of coffee... o_e the method I decided to go for in the sewing process does seem to give the book a nice sturdy binding, but its a much longer and much tedious task. You can see where in some ares the thread kinda tangled up on me. That and there were some areas I skipped (not on purpose) But all in all, its still holding together pretty stongly. Also, no, that's not linen tape, its black card paper. Its just as effective in my opinion Just seven more signatures to go! I'ma go fix that pot of coffee now
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    Finally got around to folding and puncturing the signatures last night. This time I'm going for 32 signatures each (front and back signatures have two pages (one from each will be glued to the covers and then covered up by some inner cover decor) and the rest have six pages each. Do the math.) And now I'm about to cut up the tape needed for sewing. I cant mess up this time!
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    Thanks to the few who left their opinions on the flawed book (over at the ponychan thread this is a copy&paste update). it was very much appreciated! I've decided to go with the last reply's opinion (again, Ponychan) and use the flawed book specifically for experiments. That means I'll be starting all over again. But there's an upside and a good reason for my decision, and its not only related to the gold leaf error. I've had another regret about how I sewed the signatures together. I was using a simple method for the sewing that is actually best used for smaller books. In using this method I neglected the use of linen tape (which is supposed to be held tight by the thread on the spinal area which helps to keep the signatures together) because I did not use the linen tape approach, the book has continually had a problem about staying perfectly flush. No matter how much I worked the sand paper along the edges, the more I tampered with it afterwards the more it just kept losing its balance and looking untidy. I'm hoping to correct that with the next attempt here. On a note, I did like the sewing method I was using on this book because it did a somewhat good job of binding each signature together. So I'm thinking about using that method with the linen tape somehow to ensure a max strength bind. We shall see how that turns out!
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    So I went and did the foolish thing and took a risk... I tried applying some liquid gold-leaf to the paper's edges. The result? >fig #1 It did its job, in only that it looks a bit rugged. Kinda like its been used before (I could try applying a secnd coat, but I'm kinda liking the rugged look here...) >fig #2 And here's the con of my experiment. The liquid gold leaf actually sort of bled into the edges. But it kinda gives the paper a somewhat antique distressed look. But who am I kidding? I need opinions... Is what I did here a bad choice? Does it look like something I can keep working with or should I scrap this and start new, avoiding the gold edging until I have the proper equipment for it?
  11. MisterBull
    A bit of an update (continuing from the progress as posted in the ponychan thread) After a bit of press work and whatnot, I've done a bit of glue work to the spine area and now I'm sanding down the edges of the paper in an attempt to make everything all nice and even. A plus about doing this is that the edges of the paper now has a feathery cloth-like feel to it which makes it feel all the more like a book and less like a bunch of folded sheets of computer paper I may even go as far as to gold-leaf the edges to make it look more ornate but I'll need to do a bit more research on how that's done and maybe a few experiments. I'll continue to post more updates as I progress
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    Hey, guys, I've recently taken a break from my work on Spikes Quest to start on some other projects thats been on my mind. One of these projects is the study and practice of bookbinding, meaning I'm looking into crafting my own hard back books. I've been practicing the craft for the past month or so and needless to say, I'm getting better at it Now I'd like to take what I've learned and use it for the comunity in some way. So I'm going to start binding together some custom made journals, giving these journals such nice material such as leather (when I can afford it)covering and some nice elegant detail. I've recently started on the first of these journals and I have been posting my progress over at Ponychan (thread: http://www.ponychan.net/chan/collab/res/37703.html) I figured I should start a thread here too and post such updates If this project is a success I have an even BIGGER project in mind that the whole creative brony comunity could join in, but more on that later!
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    Spikes Quest: Work in Progress [Untitled Area]
    thanks
  14. MisterBull
    Spikes Quest: Work in Progress [Untitled Area]
    whenever its ready. I hope pretty soon that's all I can tell ya atm, sorry
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    Spikes Quest: Work in Progress [Untitled Area]
    there's been 4 demos published so far, so yes.
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    Spikes Quest Preview Images

    Images added to a gallery album owned by MisterBull in Canterlot Community Art

    Images for the game-in-progress Spikes Quest goes here.
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    Spikes Quest: Work in Progress [Untitled Area]

    From the album: Spikes Quest Preview Images

    Here's a tileset that I'm working on for the game-in-progress Spikes Quest, a Metroidvania style platformer. Currently I am hosting a livestream of my work on this tileset (tonight until midnight 3/16/12 and tomorow before and after the Spike themed episode!) so feel free to join in if you like watching people work on stuff! http://www.livestream.com/misterbullsarttheater?t=181713 I'll try to post a visual update in this gallery folder once a week!
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    Equestrian Hobbit Logic [Final]
    Sure, bro, i dont mind being friends thanks for the comment!
  19. MisterBull
    > installs a plugin that keeps me updated on my DA messages > the plugin makes a splat sound upon each new update > some majorly 'official' MLP club sends a request to add my Hobbit comic to their collection > their club has thousands of members > I go "meh, sure" and accept their request > Splat splat splattiy splat aplat splasplaspla (and beyond) well my god... o.o
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    Equestrian Hobbit Logic [Final]
    Thanks! I'll actually use that :o3
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    Equestrian Hobbit Logic [Final]
    Just got an e-mail from Seth. Its n queue
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    Equestrian Hobbit Logic [Final]

    From the album: My Pony Comics

    Took me four days just to finish on a concept I had while bored once. Still turned out nicely and some viewers actually got a chuckle out of it. Yay me! Linkages: DA: http://bellcountycom...t.com/#/d4nphx8 Perfect BG Music to go with Comic:

    © Bullock Arts

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    My Pony Comics

    Images added to a gallery album owned by MisterBull in Canterlot Community Art

    Here, I'll upload whatever comics that I've contributed to this fandom
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    Deviant Art Linkage: http://bellcountycomics.deviantart.com/#/d4nphx8
  25. MisterBull
    the 3D in this picture seems to vary in quality according to the person viewing it. Maybe its because of how far the background is shifted. Each layer is shifted 1 pixel accordingly to their number and there are 97 layers in all. I hope my skill improves from each picture that I'll be doing in the future... awesome link, btw and thanks for the feedback!
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