Specialization in Creative Travel Journals

Overview

“The first step in the binding process is to prepare the paper: folding it and punching it for stitching. Here I will show you how to do it.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Bookbinding Lessons: Paper Preparation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Creative Travel Journals. Document your travels using illustration and bookbinding techniques to create unique and emotional visual journals.

Partial transcription of the video

“Bookbinding Lessons: Paper Preparation In this lesson, we'll start working with paper. First, you need to divide your paper into booklets. You want them to be as similar as possible. Normally, when one uses paper of the same grammage, for example, if you wanted ten booklets, you divide your papers into groups of four. In this case, since they have different weights, what we'll do to order them is put the heavier papers in groups of three sheets and the lighter papers in groups of five. That will help compensate. In this case, I divided my sheets into nine booklets. They go from lightest to ...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Creative Travel Journals

• Level: Beginner
• 26 students
• 6 units
• 70 lessons (12h 1m)
• 31 downloads

• Category

  Craft, Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, Colored Pencil Drawing, Creative Writing, DIY, Drawing, Fine Arts, Ink Illustration, Mindfulness, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting