Halloween Nails

During weekend I made my Halloween manicure and pedicure, so now when nails and shoes are ready, I feel fully prepare to celebrate.

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He lives in my phone

consumed with the urge to draw with ed holding cat. that's all

edit: metal arm wrong side bc canvas flip

now i am a huge fan of kim’dael. and she’s got the swaggiest nail situation. but i can’t stop thinking about this

edit: i have a new and improved version of this sketch here. pls enjoy :)

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i tried to do a chart just from pure memory (don't mind the bad crop) u were onto smth i think

this is so funny. the three of them legitimately cannot go a single season without being weird about each other 😭

Holidays Nails!

I decided to try to make some Holidays nails with a pattern of snowflakes and of course use this chance to make another photo about nails for my stock photo portfolio. And this is how I start and also end celebrating and in upcoming days I am planning to dive into my own world and focus on some artistic creativity :)

At the same time, I wanted to wish you all in the coming days a great time with family or friends and to make your wishes come true (of course, the realistic ones!)

a bestie can be anything. a bestie can be the 2007 roblox chain chomp face changer. ive known him since childhood. we grew up together. he literally changed my face and it was so cool. i hope he's still out there causing a ruckus and shit.

In the tapestry of life, it's the threads that linger, weaving tales of joy, sorrow, and everything in between. Like a melody that refuses to fade, these moments linger in the corridors of our memories, painting the canvas of our existence with hues of nostalgia and longing. Embrace them, for in their gentle embrace lies the essence of our journey.

Very belated Binderary books, uh...I've lost track actually. I think they are #6 and #7. And it's another two-volume split! This is (Slow) Burn, Baby, Burn by orchidlocked, an extremely long Good Omens fic set in the 1970s. It's about our favorite angel/demon pair navigating the disco scene, and it's not an AU, which is sort of usual in a fic this long and with such a specific premise. There are a fair few real people featured here, some as major characters, and a lot of music history and an excellent playlist alongside all the fun and angsty relationship stuff that so many of us are here for. I learned a lot about disco reading this fic and it was fascinating and also way more queer than I ever realized.

For the cover up there we have a white Allure book cloth on the spine, and white HTV over homemade book cloth for the main cover. The cloth pieces both come from the same sheet but I oriented the stripes this way so they'd be coordinated-but-not-matched and I really love the effect. They're also cotton and really nice to hold. It's funny, I was thinking of binding this fic when I found the fabric while digging through the Joann's remnant bin, and as soon as I saw it this fic not only came to mind but moved up to the top of the to-bind list. It was fate, clearly.

More photos under the cut!

Both spines and a top view. That's orange HTV for the titles. This it the first time I've worked with matte HTV (I usually use metallic or foil) and I was surprised at how much thinner it is, and how easy it was to stick. And I like the color inverse here in counterpoint to the front cover. The top view shows off the handmade endbands and bookmark, and also the rounding job. I'm still working on rounded spines, and the turn-in over the spine didn't come out as smooth as I'd have liked, but I think it's a good result. The ribbon bookmark was supposed to be blue to match the endbands, but every blue ribbon I could find clashed horribly with the cover so it's this nice leafy sage green. Which actually works really well with...

The endpapers! I got these as Joann's too. All four are cut from the same print, but I shifted and rotated them when I trimmed them so the patterns wouldn't all be in the same place. I had desperately wanted this other paper I found on Etsy with little vinyl records all over it, but the pieces weren't the right shape and I'd have had to ship them from overseas ($$), but I like the mood these ones set. And they're thick and nicely textured and look awesome with the cover, so really I think things worked out very well.

Couple of pics of the interior. I kept it fairly simple but I feel like it fits the story.

The scene break line is orange, to match the covers. I usually use gray but wanted something more fun. I recently bought some off-white paper that I used for most of my binderary projects this year because I've heard it's easier on the eyes, and it is, but I used the older bright white for this so the color contrast would be sharper. No complaints; I think it looks amazing. The second image above is the appendix I put together for the volume. Being so centered in the music industry, this fic has a really long playlist that the author put together with their preferred recordings. It's linked in the story and I did include the link text in the book, but I had my mind on preservation and the challenges of digital archiving while I was making this one, so I also took all the title/artist/album info and just listed it here. It was too much to do all by hand, so I learned how to export a Spotify playlist into an Excel doc, then moved that into the Word doc to print. A lot of steps, but not nearly as hard as I'd thought, and way less tedious.

I have to say this book is aesthetically really different than all my previous ones. I ran into so many design hurdles but I honestly couldn't be more pleased with the end result. I'll have to push my comfort zone like this more often, I guess.

I probably can't do more art this week or next week but hey, some boblin for the upcoming Valentine's day eh :D? (too soon? naah)

Does this remind you of one of those cool french comic artstyles or am I not getting it right pffft?

they're so pookie coded

III with nail polish when.