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WIP THE CARDS STORY 1

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These are part of the basic layouts to my hand-bound copy of the story that goes with the card game I devised: peter-the-knotter.deviantart.c…
This is a link to the playtest deck of cards that were used for playing: peter-the-knotter.deviantart.c…
And this is a link to the original deck I painted with felt pens in French cafes during "coffee breaks"...
...whilst learning French by listening to people and making new friends because of drawing in public...fav.me/d6kcjfc

Please note: These are WIP's
They are "mock-ups" (Although in essence: finished as far as "Layout" is concerned... I've already started the major designs), temporarily, therefore, I've used pictures from several of my favourite Ukiyo-e woodblock artists... but mostly and heavily, in particular probably my joint favourite of all with (Ando Hiroshige and Utagawa Kuniyoshi): Katsushika Hokusai whom I have admired for some 25 years. I am drawing/painting all the final backgrounds, Chapter titles, cards and associated patterns, mon, etc... myself.... I'll maybe post a sample of a finished page when I feel OK about it...

The major colour illustrations to the story will be "slipped in" to the finished book and those on/in the presentation set box (cover) and contents ("guide" (1)and "rule books" (7) )

This makes the book fun to make since it will require "faux" pages and tissue covers for the slipped-in "painted prints" Bookbinders will understand this, even though I'm using an exterior knotted Japanese binding system

I'm so glad that this project is really beginning to take shape... partly "just because!" and also because it's nice to be able to see something "relatively small" that can be finished ...quite soon for a change...
......unlike the "BEAST!"... as I sometimes call it.....or Book of Knots (with it's 2500 or so mostly hand-drawn by me illustrations, it's thousands and thousands of words, it's 400 word glossary, an index you wouldn't believe plus innumerable lists of makers, guilds, websites, shops, suppliers, etc ad nauseum), as deviants blithely refer to it who know I've only really been working on it since being on DA (only 4yrs -ish) when asking, (like children in a car... grrr ....er....bless 'em! ;) ):
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Is it finished YET!?

Whenever it is finished... and, hopefully published with linen cards etc... I will "slip-in" the isbn etc into this book on a sort of "ex libris style" template I am making for the purpose so that even "that bit" is in harmony with the overall design and yes:

there is an actual "ex libris Plate", in Ukiyo-e style, included which may be slipped in/glued in ("lo-tack" adhesive will be fine and also allow it to be replaced by it's next owner...), when whoever ends up with the book wishes, which has been left on it's original piece of A4 paper so that at least the first owner has the usual 6 choices...
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Date Taken
Jun 13, 2013, 8:45:54 PM
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