Here’s something to chew on: David Tennant will be joining Steven Yeun (not Moffat—sorry, Doctor Who fans) for an animated movie adaptation of Chew, an award-winning comic book by John Layman and Rob Guillory.
Chew centers on a character named Tony Chu (Yeun), a detective and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agent. Chu happens to be a “cibopath”—someone who has the ability to see the life history of everything he eats. That means he can take a bite of anything (except beets, apparently) and then receive a vivid psychic impression. In the world of Chew, bird meats are illegal after the bird flu wiped out millions of Americans.
Thank you for all your love on my first art of 14!!! Here’s more bc i already love him and I am going to be shocked when he inevitably is not wearing this outfit.
It’s 3 AM and I can’t sleep so my brain decided to torture me by reminding me that all the people I have looked up to since I was little fangirl will die before me.. I started imagining the day the world is going to loose people I have grown up watching and admiring and now I can’t stop crying! Imagine seeing the avengers die for real, or the cast of your favourite show/ movie. I will die a bit inside that day. So yeah I hate my brain
a few years ago (dear lord, that makes me sound so old) I wanted to make a very special birthday present for my best friend who happenes to be a Whovian, just like me.
And I thought I could get a nice River Song Journal. But all those you can find online are either crappy or waaayyy to expensive.
So I decided to do what I can do best Save the day! caughingSorry, it wont happen again. I decided to make one myself.
The reason this post is coming now: I just found the old pictures and want to share my thoughts and the struggles I had trough the process. Maybe I can inspire others or help you creating your very own River Song Journal.
Lean back and enjoy the show:
First I did some research and stuff cuz I wanted to create something as accurate as possible.
(1) I googled around a little for the Color
or this, same color code tho.
But they didn’t sell that in my local art store so screw that I had to mix my own color! (a picture will appear later in the process, like a wilde bulbasaur or something)
I’ll just get some shades of blue, a white and a black one in order to … improvise.
I went shopping
A blank hardcover Notebook; the Colours; carton; glue; Tissue Paper. I already had a box cutter somewhere at home.
For the particular kind of pattern I did some more research.
And found this nice thingy
somebody else created that in order to also make their own Journal big thanks for that, it really helped me back then
but still I had to alter it in order to make it fit on the book I got.
Lets get to Work then!
I would really recommend switching between cutting with the box cutter and the scissor because cutter takes longer but doesn’t really hurt while scissor hurst and is fast. But you have to be very careful with the scissor because I ruined some of the carton pieces.
And now glue it on the Book!!
This looks like something already!
carefully glue the Tissue paper on it in order to create a nice patina, haptic and optic. Use a brush and something wallpaper adhesive-ish. It’s nice finish for the surface.
Next step: Coloring!
always let it dry properly and don’t color it too unitary. Uniqueness is beautiful.
Try not to let THAT happen.
Last thing: making it look more antique and used.
Google helps. Earl gray colors better than coffee or different things. So let me just brew some an put it in a spray can
Voilà !!
Sidenote: She was very happy about the present. And I had fun making it!
