Beginner's Grail Diary (Printable Pages + Inserts)

[jasonw2112]

Well, since I have not used a printer in my own home ( really nice printer at my old job, made some nice Fifth Element, and Blade Runner paper props! ) in probably 15 years, I think I'm going to have to buy one!
But it's worth it!

 

[Antonis13]

Also check out club obi wan for grail diary inserts. It does require a lot of looking and you are right about there being a lot of dead links and attachments but there's still a lot to be found.

Thank you for posting these inserts, especially the arabic letter, i couldn't find it anywhere that it is ready to print. Thank you!

Sometimes i feel a little annoyed with all the gatekeeping that there is in the obi wan forum and generally in the art forums.

 

[heyyoukidd]

red sea map

 

[zachsbanks547]

Does anyone have recommendations for what kind of paper to use for the bank notes?

Also, how would one go about making a tablet rubbing?

Thanks!

 

[CopperPigeon]

Hey peeps, I managed to complete my diary using loads of stuff from here and also references from elsewhere, my only dilemma is l, does the diary have a soft or hard spine? I've looked at loads of pictures and it looks like it could be either.

 

[Indy Magnoli]

The entire cover is really soft and flexible.

 

[zachsbanks547]

I started on my Grail Diary recently and remade some insert files along the way.
I attached a zip of them all. Feel free to use however.

• Higher-res filled-in Gray Letter from this thread.
• Indian Telegram and Envelope
• Washington Quote Sheet (front & back)

 

[zachsbanks547]

I started working on the maps and in this thread, there's a link to this scan of the main Egypt/Sinai map. It’s pretty big, but as soon as you start cropping it to get the smaller maps, it loses resolution real quickly.

So I decided to try running it through Lightroom’s AI upscaler. I ended up being able to quadruple the resolution and it turned out really well.
The final image is now 22,476 x 17,792

^Original_______^Upscaled

Here’s a link to a Drive folder that has the upscaled tiff of the original map, as well as all my cropped and colour corrected versions for the printed maps
(that folder also has all the grail diary files I’ve made/remade. Feel free to use any of them).

 

[Antonis13]

I started working on the maps and in this thread, there's a link to this scan of the main Egypt/Sinai map. It’s pretty big, but as soon as you start cropping it to get the smaller maps, it loses resolution real quickly.

So I decided to try running it through Lightroom’s AI upscaler. I ended up being able to quadruple the resolution and it turned out really well.
The final image is now 22,476 x 17,792
View attachment 1905801View attachment 1905802
^Original_______^Upscaled

Here’s a link to a Drive folder that has the upscaled tiff of the original map, as well as all my cropped and colour corrected versions for the printed maps
(that folder also has all the grail diary files I’ve made/remade. Feel free to use any of them).

Thank you VERY MUCH! I love you for sharing these files!
Unfortunately, lots of people that would do the same amazing work, would keep it for themselves, and or put them on sale, instead of sharing them. And these people expect that everyone has the time and knowledge to do these things. It's crazy.

Once again, thank you!

 

[zachsbanks547]

No problem. My personality is for sure the opposite of gatekeeping.

I’m doing all this for my own project anyway; might as well share it.

 

[greenmachines]

To be fair, there is a specific title to the thread. If it instead said, "show off thread", I wouldn't hold them to sharing files. Some folks actually make their income from design. I don't begrudge them wanting to show their work but not give it away. But I can certainly join the band in singing the praises of those that share. Thank you!!

 

[Bonio]

Hi everyone! I'm new to the forum and my english is not so good.. anyway, I got myself a cheap grail diary for Christmas, just to please my inner child and with surprise I found myself full of passion again about this prop! Randomly I found this thread, full of content and information to use for upgrading my cheap grail diary so... A massive thank you to Celeste for starting this thread and sharing so mich, and to you all for sharing information and keeping the passion so alive. Of course my cheap diary Is not enough for me at this point, so I' m starting to make one on my own. I post my very first attempt of sketched pages.

 

[zachsbanks547]

I stared to do some test prints of Celeste Conway ’s pages, but they were coming out just a bit pixel-y so I decided to re work them a bit. I ran them all through vectorizer.ai to make them vector pdfs (which worked really well).
There were two images that weren’t cooperating though: the crucifixion painting and the King Alain drawing. So I scrounged around and found some higher res rasters of those two and added them to the vector pdfs.

I added all that to my Google Drive folder: Grail Diary - Google Drive

 

[seanboy360]

I stared to do some test prints of Celeste Conway ’s pages, but they were coming out just a bit pixel-y so I decided to re work them a bit. I ran them all through vectorizer.ai to make them vector pdfs (which worked really well).
There were two images that weren’t cooperating though: the crucifixion painting and the King Alain drawing. So I scrounged around and found some higher res rasters of those two and added them to the vector pdfs.

I added all that to my Google Drive folder: Grail Diary - Google Drive

Yeah, a lot of the images and text are pixilated. I re-typed everything and replaced as many images as possible.

 

[SwordForHireInc]

Many years later, Thank you!

TBH I'm just grabbing a couple of images to add to the blank Grail Diary I got from Magnoli to use as a personal journal.... But now it has a map with no names... it has the 3, 7, and 10... it has a few other bits that I really like.

Cheers eh