For book one I spent a lot of time finding the right kind of book. It's not as easy as you'd think. It has to be flexible, hard wearing, not too heavy but heavy enough, realistic but dramatic. In short, it has to be "just right"
In the end, I went with a book from these people. And very happy I was too - great handmade product, fast reliable service.
So this time around, it was a no brainer. Same supplier. But I wanted a different look for the book. More imposing.
In the end, having considered many options, I chose this one
Black buffalo hide, with leather straps across the front. Inside, hand made cartridge paper of a heavy enough weight for the ink not to bleed through when I screw up a drawing and press too hard.
Job done. No worries.
Then it turned up. And after I got over the frankly awesomeness of how it looked, I got this, well I can only describe it as the icy fingers of doom crawling up my spine. Something was wrong... but what?
Then I placed the two books side to side:
Yes, it's bigger. And it may not look it from the picture, but it's a lot bigger. And heavier. Which means dragging around more kit and needing to get a custom pouch made for it to fit in. Worse than that, it means more content, which means (shudder) more drawing. And I think we all know how that will work out.
Sigh.
Still, it is freaking awesome though.
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