Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration
Making the Cover 1
A course by Evan Lorenzen , Multidisciplinary Artist
About the video: Making the Cover 1
Overview
“I will now move on to creating the cover of the book. There are specifics to making a hardcover, such as measuring and compiling the materials. I will explain all this in detail. ”
In this video lesson Evan Lorenzen addresses the topic: Making the Cover 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration. Learn how to tell your story intricately by making a teeny tiny book from scratch and filling it with precise, micro-scale illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Making the Cover We've finally assembled our text block, and in this lesson, we'll learn how to make our cover. We made sure to make our book 9/10 of an inch big for the inside text block. We want the cover to be a bit bigger, so we'll make it an inch big. This gives us 1/20 in on either side to be able to have a bit of wiggle room so you don't see any of your text block with the book closed. I'll begin by cutting out a 1-in strip of paper. Use the same paper that you used for the inside text block. You can rip this if you'd prefer. I will measure 1 in and make a small mark using a pencil...”
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Course summary for: Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, DIY, Traditional illustration
Evan Lorenzen
A course by Evan Lorenzen
Evan Lorenzen, better known as Art and Such Evan, is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in micro illustrations. While studying animation in college, he became interested in bookmaking and took a course to learn the process. Several years later, he decided to try it on a small scale and has been passionate about the medium of miniature ever since, as it challenges both his physical and creative limits.
Throughout his career, Evan has had the opportunity to collaborate with organizations like the Miniature Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Amsterdam, Cat Art Show L.A., and hundreds of individual collectors. His work has been featured in exhibits across the US and abroad, including the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and the Nucleus Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
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