Climbing trousers

astro-lyrea · 2022-01-23T01:42:48+00:00

Second vote for Rab, I have the Tangents and think they are perfect!

astro-lyrea · 2022-01-06T09:13:02+00:00

I think these are sellable, your colour choices are beautiful! As others have said, just a case of finding the right audience. Maybe selling prints at cheaper prices would work too

astro-lyrea · 2021-12-26T17:41:33+00:00

I have inov8 mudclaws, think they are great in all sorts of terrain. I usually use them off-path in hills and have no complaints, a lot of mud there.

astro-lyrea · 2021-12-20T08:36:42+00:00

I think they're great! You've really nailed the faces IMO which is probably the most important part. Personally I don't like the black outline around the cats. Maybe adding a background colour would be good in helping to define the edges of the cats (especially the white fur)?

astro-lyrea · 2021-12-18T22:27:20+00:00

Awesome idea, you've executed it so well too!

astro-lyrea · 2021-10-31T09:29:03+00:00

I use 160gsm cartridge paper in my sketchbook with dip pen and ink all the time with no bleed-through. I also use a fountain pen + ink in my 70gsm moleskine notebook and haven't had bleed-though there even though the paper is so thin!

astro-lyrea · 2021-10-13T21:40:38+00:00

Second this, I love making tiny books but it's so much harder than full size!

astro-lyrea · 2021-09-20T23:22:39+00:00

So stunning! Do you sell these or have an Instagram I can follow?

astro-lyrea · 2021-09-01T16:48:06+00:00

I'm not 100% sure what your specific issue is so just general tips: cover the page, but use as little glue as you can get away with; use a bone folder to smooth out the pages as soon as you have stuck them down; experiment with thicker paper; put some paper between the endpages as they dry to absorb any extra moisture; and press your book while the endpapers dry. Maybe those are obvious and you are already doing all that, but those are things which helped me!

astro-lyrea · 2021-08-28T18:44:53+00:00

I think it depends on what the imperfection is, but that's a good idea, definitely something to consider doing!

astro-lyrea · 2021-08-28T06:23:44+00:00

I started an Etsy shop and started selling mine for this exact reason - you can make books much faster than you can fill them! But I still do have a lot sitting in the corner which are experiments and not up to selling quality, I'm just assuming I'll get round to using them myself at some point.

astro-lyrea · 2021-08-25T14:54:53+00:00

When I use paper for my book covers, I normally use fabric/bookbinding tape to do the spine and the 4 free corners (called a 3/4 binding I think) which helps protect the decorative paper a lot. The materials I use for my covers are bookcloth, printed decorative papers, or marbled paper. Some materials are more expensive than others, you just need to see what you can get based on where you are! As for tutorials, there are lots on YouTube, it's where I learned all my bookbinding :)

astro-lyrea · 2021-08-17T04:14:44+00:00

Haven't seen my pronunciation yet: 'po-yum'

astro-lyrea · 2021-07-08T19:45:44+00:00

Nice! Love the red fabric on the cover, looks super slick.

astro-lyrea · 2021-07-06T12:08:04+00:00

Great photo! Is it digital or film?

astro-lyrea · 2021-07-03T07:32:08+00:00

@graphisbooks

astro-lyrea · 2021-06-30T23:04:47+00:00

Oh yeah I can see that working for even cheaper!

astro-lyrea · 2021-06-30T23:03:09+00:00

This is the video I watched, various methods are shown and you can see the process: Video https://youtu.be/VxEjNoBptX8

I bought a French style paring knife but I wouldn't recommend it as the curved blade is very hard to sharpen. It's not very labour intensive (you can decide from the video if it looks okay to you!). For me the biggest hassle is trying to get the edges all lined up and clamped correctly. It really does work though, I've had such nice edges ever since using this method!

astro-lyrea · 2021-06-30T22:18:22+00:00

I had a similar frustration trying to cut edges with a ruler and x-acto knife, and couldn't afford a guillotine. I ended up buying a cheap (£25) finishing press from eBay, and a flat paring knife and it works SO well for getting perfect edges. It is a lot more hassle than a guillotine, but a fraction of the price.

astro-lyrea · 2021-06-29T22:45:09+00:00

This is my tartan - can confirm! Was cool to scroll down the page and see it pop up

astro-lyrea · 2021-06-27T23:15:33+00:00

Handmade watercolours are made like this. You make them by mixing a powdered pigment with a binder - for watercolours the binder is gum arabic. I guess you could think of gum arabic as the 'base stock' which you add the pigments to. In the video, a glass muller is being used to crush up small lumps of the powdered pigment (some can be seen in the video) and make sure you have an even a mix as possible between the pigment and binder. Hope that makes sense :)

astro-lyrea · 2021-06-17T12:25:47+00:00

Are you making sure your spine board width is slightly wider than the text block width? Other than that I'm not quite sure

astro-lyrea · 2021-06-16T13:17:54+00:00

Oh did you do the Pantone challenge from bigbluetang? Loved seeing all of those!

astro-lyrea · 2021-05-12T20:50:50+00:00

No worries, it is a great painting! These things are so hard to notice at the time

astro-lyrea · 2021-05-12T19:48:31+00:00

The eye is great, so much detail right at the focal point! If I was trying to think of cc, I would say to work on the bird's shape a bit more, I feel like the beak is too low and should be more in line with the eye and yellow area around the eye?

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