art of Aska

here are all the covers finished.

Night! 🌙 Here is *finally* a picture with all the 20 colored covers! 🌈 I couldn't finish yet all the dairies (I'm missing thread for some endbands) But I might finish them kind of soon *I hope at least* 📚

Hi there! Since I got some footage of me making a serie of diaries, I thought of making a whole post with all of it together. I don’t meant to be boring nor too much time consuming, so all videos are edited to a time-lapse format, even though all I do is speed them up, I don’t crop or do any other type of editing. Keep in mind that this is NOT a tutorial, it’s only to illustrate how I make my books.

• FOLDING: So, here’s how everthing starts, by folding paper.

• CUTTING: Well, I don’t have a guillotine, so I cut my paper by hand.

• FOLDING SIGNATURES: Now that I have the paper sheets to the size I want I start folding the paper into signatures (the little paper blocks).

• PUNCHING HOLES: As most of bookbinders, I use a awl (the big needle tool) to punch holes into the signarures. 

• SEWING: 

On Monday I folded paper! 📄📚

these are the fabric I painted for the colored paper diaries. I don't think I'm gonna make those so soon, but still I really wanted to paint. 

so, each fabric is big enough for two diaries, I did in once and it's honestly a good ideas, kind of saves a bunch of time

here, a little project I'm not really sure about yet. Initially I thought of doing a Meinhard's Alchemusic inspired dos-a-dos: one side would be Solve, and the other Coagula, but now I'm thinking of making a pair of books, still Solve - Coagula themed (even tho now it looks more like Tim Burton/ Beetlejuice inspired)

*this pic is from yesterday, I forgot to post*

so, here are all 16 rainbow diaries covers, both dark and regular rainbow series. I might say, I'm quite proud of them

these are just to illustrate a idea I have for a (hopefully near) future series of "pastel" diaries, where I combine the covers with the text block paper

and today was the tiger's day 🐯 I worked on these 4 tiger covers and finished all the other 16 ✨ tomorrow I might finish the tiger ones 📚 and then I might go back to cutting paper cause I have none left ✂️

Another day of work, more 8 covers on the way, still have 4 for tomorrow, but I'm quite proud of what I've done so far 📚 sleep tight everyone 🌙

I'll say it, I had a productive day:

today I backed all 20 cloth with paper, and worked on the 8 covers for the rainbow dairy series, I'm happy

oh, and I also made the bottom endband of the orange diary

according to the picture's metadata I've painted these fabric on May 22th. From 4 I only used 2, being those: Autumn Skies (orange) and Night Shadows (blue)

Autumn Skies was firstly made for myself, I thought of using it as a dairy, but I ended up making a purple one for me. As I really don't need so many dairies, and Autumn Skies cannot me sold due to some errors I committed on the making of it, now I'm thinking of giving it to my mother for her to write her poetry or something, cause she really writes a lot more than I do

Night Shadows was made for my father, inspired by his first classical composition, I might share it when we release it to the public