Tomorrow I'm going to set up my exhibition!
Here's an invitation for all of you:
[Btw.: I'm still not done with the drawings for the first chapter of my book, but now I know, there are going to be nine pictures. Four of them are double-page spread, this means it's going to be very difficult to print and bind them, so each half will fit its opposite.]
Here's another picture for the "dead birds" chapter:
There's still a lot to draw and I need to come up with some more ideas for this chapter. But when I'm done, I think I'm going to print it before starting to draw the next one, so I won't overwork my joints, since I'm not good at taking breaks while printing.
I'm outsmarting myself!
I only just remembered, the other day I found this magnet sticking to my paper shelf in the printing studio:
I don't know if the person, who printed this, placed it there intentionally...but thank you anyway. :D
Today I spoke to the manager of the printing studio about my book idea. She immediately helped me find the right paper for my project. It's rather thick and ivory, I like it very much and I can have a package with 250 sheets of it! I don't know if I'll need all of it tough, because I could make 25 books using that many sheets ( I decided to stick to 5 chapters with 16 pages each). The paper is 44x55 cm, so I can cut it in half to get the right size for the book pages.
I also did the first drawing for the "dead birds" (working title) chapter.
I'm feeling better and I had an idea for a huge project!
I'm thinking about making a limited edition of handbound hardcover artbooks.
This means they will contain a lot of pages (otherwise you can't bind a hardcover book) and a lot of pictures, too.
I'd like to divide it in different chapters, each dealing with one of the topics that I'm repeatedly dealing with in my work, like: dead birds, zombies, cephalopods and so on. So in a way it would be a collection of my whole graphic work.
Each chapter would hold...uhm, let's say 4 sheets of paper (I haven't planned that yet) = 16 pages (but probably less pictures).
So if there will be 5 chapters, there will be a shitload of potential sources of error in the making of those books.
Yup, it would be more work than my maltreated joints can handle and more difficult than I am able to imagine right now...but who cares, I guess I'm going to try it anyway.
I think the most difficult part is getting started with the drawings and finding the right style for the whole thing. :\
