kulapti
KULAPTI ART
she/her. Mediums: digital, pencil, ink, acrylic, watercolor, bookbinding, including Tailfeather Binding fanfiction binding. I do not accept commissions. Do not repost my art please. I have bound your fanfic for someone else and you would like to receive a copy of your own, message me! Reblogs and chaos at @pastrypuppy
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take or ask. Ink and pencil, Feb/April 2024.
#artists on tumblr#my art#queer art#ink#vampire#blood warning#ocs#tag where Dragon might eat you#red ferns#I would say he gets to be unhinged as a treat but he's unhinged all the time. sometimes u gotta have a weird insane character#theyre lesbians harold#id in alt text#almost forgot the alt text!#described
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Golden Key tiny book charm, Feb 2024.
All my other tiny book charms except my first one were intended as gifts, and I decided it was about time to make one with words for myself. It includes some of my favorite odds and ends, including some poems, short stories, excerpts from novels. I nicknamed the project The Golden Key after the first story I picked, a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm collection.
#my art#bookbinding#artists on tumblr#tiny things#tiny books#tailfeather binding#the golden key#another one finished during binderary!#binderary2024
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Marine-themed handmade journal, Feb 2024.
I'm very pleased with how the coptic stitch looks with embroidery thread to create that gradient look! I'll definitely be doing that again! Funny how much easier this stitch seems now compared to my first time doing it. The turquoise fore-edge is Diamine tropical shimmer ink, which I would like to try again on sanded edges to see how sparkly I can get it.
#my art#bookbinding#artists on tumblr#handmade books#coptic stitch#made this during binderary! couldn't post the results during my social media fast so I have several books to post now ^^#binderary2024#described#journal#tailfeather binding
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queer joy.
Ink via brush and fountain pen, March 2024.
#my art#lesbian#ink#ink drawing#artists on tumblr#ok I really like this one! should do another like it#tag where dragon might eat you#described#hey guys im back kinda!
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Quetzalcoatl and Temiquilitzli (Dream) in Of Feathers, Fangs, and Scales for the Centennial Husbands 2024 Big Bang! Check it out and other works for the event here on ao3.
#reblog for the fic link :DDDDD#thanks ches <3 I'll never be over this FIC. YELLING. THEY#me when im legally obligated to go make mole#here there be fandom#the sandman#dreamling
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Quetzalcoatl and Temiquilitzli (Dream) in Of Feathers, Fangs, and Scales for the Centennial Husbands 2024 Big Bang! Check it out and other works for the event here on ao3.
#dreamling#quetzalcoatl#artists on tumblr#centennial husbands big bang#centennial husbands big bang 2024#centennial husbands#big bang#ink#here there be fandom#the sandman#described#painting with ink and crying because I love GREEN look at this GREEN it's actually this bright in person dlfkgjadfgkjlafghadjgf#yells about this fic also! go read it! the details are super fun and Ches and Phin did a great job <3333
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Be gentle
Feb 2024, shimmer inks.
#my art#lgbt art#artists on tumblr#vampire#monsters#tag where Dragon might eat you#now THAT'S more like it!!#blushing mushroom is a massive pain in the pen I'm using but painting with it like this has extremely satisfying results!!#super hard to photograph the combination of pinks and dull lavenders with copper shimmer but it looks rly cool trust me#using tumbling time blue and blushing mushroom ferris wheel press inks#ink#described
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Embrace, Jan 2024, shimmer ink.
#my art#artists on tumblr#lgbt art#lesbians#ink#hrmhrmhr I kind of don't like how this turned out even though it's pretty which I guess makes it an effective style test#mildly nsfw#nudity#tag where Dragon might eat you#really have to post smth that is more properly relevant to this concept lol#I mean Dragon is being perceived and it's not edgy at all! completely out of theme tbh
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Bookbinding (2 copies) of This Thing of Darkness by @maggieandthedragon, spring 2023.
This Thing of Darkness (Fantastic Beasts, Percival Graves x Credence Barebone) is a serious but hopeful look at the difficulties of helping someone face depression, whether it be for intervening in a crisis or the providing support in the long slog of continuing to get up every day. People are messy and difficult, but it is good to be together. As dark as it might be, we can receive help, and sometimes the help we offer each other is the most important thing in the world. It's no wonder this is one of the most popular works in the pairing tag. Recommended also for compelling side characters and interesting magic system additions.
-------------------------------About this project under the cut
This is one of the first fanfics I bound for myself when I started ficbinding last year. TTOD is one of my top ten favorite fics of all time and when I realized I could learn to do typesetting and bind fics I immediately knew I wanted to make a hard copy of this novel. My personal copy has a different spine because it’s part of a matching set of my favorite Percival x Credence fanfics; the set is almost complete.
Materials: text laser printed on archival paper; Italian rayon bookcloth, purple batik-pattern cotton backed with handmade wood pulp paper, bookboard, PVA glue, cotton cheesecloth used as mull. Stitched with cotton thread, beeswax, and linen tapes, plus embroidery thread and hemp cord for the endbands. Endpapers are marbled Italian paper by London-based artist Stephan Parenti (Peacock Paper studio) which I got on Etsy specially for this binding because I wanted it to be fancy.
I learned how to stitch endbands for this book as well. The bindings aren't perfect but I’m still quite pleased with the result. The whole time it’s been on my bookshelf I keep looking at it and going heehee I made a book ✨✨✨✨ Author copy has been mailed to maggiedragon.
#artists on tumblr#bookbinding#ficbinding#fanbinding#gradence#handmade books#my art#fantastic beasts#this thing of darkness#maggiedragon#these sat partly finished on my shelf for so long until I could find the right endpapers#author copy arrived in the mail today :DDD#tailfeather binding#here there be fandom
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Damask Tiger (2), ink & krita, Dec 2023. Part of a set with this piece.
#my art#tiger#big cats#artists on tumblr#colorful animals#ink#described#this illustration was made to go with the other one back to back
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Damask Tiger (1), ink lines & krita, Dec 2023.
#my art#tiger#artists on tumblr#animals#big cats#ink#another gift piece from the holidays!#this one is part of a matching set#usually when I say “I've always done this” it is hyperbole but I have in fact always liked drawing tigers. my dad has some truly#near-unidentifiable tiger drawings I made when I was little#described
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Coyote & Pronghorn details, Dec 2023, inks.
Full piece here.
Pronghorn are the fastest land animals in North America, and are thought to have evolved this speed to outrun an ancient extinct cheetah-like predator. Despite how I have drawn this one, they are not very good jumpers and often cannot pass fences which are passable for deer. Wildlife management groups recommend modifications to barbed wire fences so they can more easily crawl under without getting stuck.
Northern Bobwhite are very sensitive to habitat disruption and easy targets for many predators, so reintroduction efforts are challenging for them despite widespread logistical and financial support from hunters and outdoor enthusiasts. I have shown them flying past flowers of Engelmann's milkweed, another species that is very vulnerable to habitat destruction, and Indiangrass, one of the prairie plants whose seeds they eat.
Coyotes are among the few species which have enough cleverness, mobility, and flexibility in their food and shelter needs that they are able to survive in areas with little to no remaining natural habitat. They are able to live in prairies but are less reliant on them than many of their former neighbors.
Rainbow grasshoppers, which I have shown here heavily stylized on prickly pear cactus, have patterns of bright spots which serve to warn potential predators that they taste bad. They live almost exclusively in desert and shortgrass prairie (see Sideoats grama, a shortgrass, in the full sized piece). They don't do well in modified habitat like typical yards and parks, so most people have never seen one even if they live in the correct geographic area.
#artists on tumblr#wildlife illustration#coyote#prairie#pronghorn#my art#undescribed#grassland#cross timbers prairie
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Wild Coyote & Leaping Pronghorn, Dec 2023, ink.
List of north american prairie species shown here, roughly top to bottom: Northern Bobwhite, Engelmann's Milkweed, Augochlora sweat bees, Indiangrass, Pronghorn, Widow Skimmer dragonfly, Blue Darter dragonfly, Common (White) Yarrow, Bluet damselfy, Coyote, Giant Grassland Cicada, seeds of Prairie False Foxglove, American Basketflower seedheads, Firewheels, Prickly Pear cactus, Rainbow grasshoppers, Sideoats Grama.
#self reblog#gracious I missed a few of my buggies in the species list! fixed that now#the rainbow grasshoppers make a lot more sense in person bc the ink is shiny. will show that in detail shots later#my art
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Wild Coyote & Leaping Pronghorn, Dec 2023, ink.
List of north american prairie species shown here, roughly top to bottom: Northern Bobwhite, Engelmann's Milkweed, Augochlora sweat bees, Indiangrass, Pronghorn, Widow Skimmer dragonfly, Blue Darter dragonfly, Common (White) Yarrow, Bluet damselfy, Coyote, Giant Grassland Cicada, seeds of Prairie False Foxglove, American Basketflower seedheads, Firewheels, Prickly Pear cactus, Rainbow grasshoppers, Sideoats Grama.
#my art#artists on tumblr#wildlife illustration#pronghorn#coyote#grassland#ink#prairie#this is mostly one ink color. it's so easily workable it's almost impossible to add the blue - I should have done the blue first#christmas gift for my dad since he liked the other unhinged coyotes I have drawn#described#ID in alt text
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Bookbinding of L'Ombre de ton ombre by windfallswest, Dec 2023.
L'ombre de ton ombre (Fantastic Beasts, Percival Graves x Credence Barebone) is another of my favorite Fantastic Beasts fanfics. It is a novel-length work that deals sensitively with the characters' experiences of grief, depression, and healing. The story has a strong visual element, with the setting and landscape playing a prominent role in the story: the landscape is beautiful and isolated, which fits appropriately parallels the characters' slow process of learning how to live again and appreciate beauty, while emphasizing the difference between being isolated in your struggles and being companionably alone with someone. Treating mental illness is often a long haul, and the structure and resolution of this story addresses that fact with a balance of frankness and optimism.
About this project under the cut.
The gorgeous endpapers are marbled paper by Brazilian artist @renato-crepaldi. Since the landscape is important to the story, I specifically wanted endpapers that reminded me of the Australian badlands. I literally looked for months until I saw this paper before finishing the book. I was so pleased with this!
I'm honestly not entirely convinced by the pinkish tone of the cover, but I made this book to be part of a set of four, and I do think it matches nicely with the others in the set (here's another one of the four).
The frontispiece art is an edited version of J.J. Audubon's illustration of gyrfalcons. Yes, bird guy Audubon. I love this falcon illustration and falcons play a symbolic role in the text, so it was a great excuse!
Materials: Textblock is archival paper, laser printed text, marbled endpapers, with linen and beeswax stitching, reinforced with cotton cheesecloth as mull. Sewn endbands are cotton embroidery floss. Covers are Italian rayon bookcloth (spine) and hand-dyed cotton batik backed with handmade wood pulp paper (ink-like cover pattern). Cover lettering is machine-cut metallic heat transfer vinyl. The case is constructed of archival bookboard, handmade wood-paper, cotton rag paper, and PVA craft glue.
#my art#bookbinding#ficbinding#fanbinding#handmade books#artists on tumblr#here there be fandom#fantastic beasts#tailfeather binding#l'ombre de ton ombre#described#id in alt text of first photo
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UPDATE the typesetter is also on tumblr, I didn't realize! Check out her bookbinding work as well :D
Shakespeare's Sonnets bookbind, Nov 2023; typesetting by Jordan from the 2023 Tiny Books Bang event.
Materials: laser printed text on archival printer paper, lokta endpapers, scrapbooking paper covers, blue and purple rayon bookcloth, archival PVA, scrap paper and cardboard, embroidery floss coated in beeswax.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets bookbind, Nov 2023; typesetting by Jordan from the 2023 Tiny Books Bang event.
Materials: laser printed text on archival printer paper, lokta endpapers, scrapbooking paper covers, blue and purple rayon bookcloth, archival PVA, scrap paper and cardboard, embroidery floss coated in beeswax.
#bookbinding#tiny book#tiny things#my art#artists on tumblr#william shakespeare#I'm extremely pleased with the faux endbands on this one!#might do a stencil title on this and the green knight tiny book later#consistent posting schedule whomst
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