Harry Potter Book/Paper Prop Tutorials, Photos + Complete Advanced Potion Making

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OH my god you did it!!!!! It looks so amazing! Did you end up making another 150 pages to get up to 300? Or just print the first 144 twice? I'm still working on the second version of my cover! Perhaps I can give that one some guts.
 
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Feels good to have it all pretty much done! Except for the handwritten parts inside...I probably won't do that for a while.

I did end up creating a few more pages, but utilized repeating pages. Actually I wasn't really sure if this would all work out, but after receiving the printed book yesterday, the size and pages looked really good. Most of the repeating pages are the graphs or bodies of text, and when flipping through the book it's not that obvious that there are repeating designs as there are a lot of different designs in the book. I have 302 pages in mine, which is just about right to fit into the cover shown in the tutorial. Blurb.com offers printing on cream colored paper, which suited this book pretty well as the cream looks better than the bright white pages in some books.

I took out the text block and bound it into the potion book cover last night.

Here are some shots of the pages fitted inside!
 
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It really looks awesome. Can I have the file? If not, can I order a copy of the text block through you?
Seriously, great work. It's amazing. It's annoying when people over-compliment over the internet because you can't really express a compliment you actually mean.
 
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WOW! I've just read through this thread and you have done amazing work ecl

Thank you so much for providing the awesome tutorial for the cover. I would like to try this at some stage. There are just so many amazing projects on the RPF that I feel a little bit like a kid in a lolly shop! :lol
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This did turn out very nice. I would be interested in ordering a copy of your books internal pages as well.

I have just got into collecting and making Harry Potter props and this would be a great addition to the group.

Love the tutorial, thank you for the hard work. Excellent prop!

Best,
DBCooper
 
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Thanks for the comments :) It's been a long project working on this....and I'm not finished yet because I'm going back in and adding handwritten stuff.

@DBCooper, unfortunately I'm not planning on selling any of these or making more at this point. It's more of a personal project and interest...I just always wanted a decent copy of the Potion book.

@SchubroProductions, there are 302 pages in the book.
 
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@ecl... congratulation to your APM-Book. It turned out realy awesome.
As well many thanks for your tutorial(s). Very cool and informativ.
*allthumbsup* :) I am following this thread and others about this book for a while. Your work forced me to post now ;)

I am not that much collecting HP Props. But the Advance Potion Making book always interrested me. So think about DBCoopers question ;) But i totally understand if you keep it for your privat and own use....

In any way keep up you cool work :thumbsup
 
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Thanks :)

I started to put in some of the handwritten stuff, using screen reference as a style guide. Alot of the stuff in the references is reallly hard to read, if legible at all, even with sharp image captures. It goes in an out of legibility, but without looking like total gibberish. So I'm just trying to capture the feel of what the prop showed.

I won't likely do every page, but will do quite a few of them over time.
 
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Very, very nice work ecl !
Looking forward to see it finished.
 
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Stunning ecl. This is really a labour of love!
 
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that is so cool!!! im definitely going to make some books, preferably harry potter textbooks. my sister is going to be sooo jealous! thanks!
 
I'd like to thank you for this amazing tut! I made mine last night (seeing as I was sick on New Years with nothing better to do!). Your copy completely blows mine out of the water, but I don't think mine is half-bad either! if I were to do it again, I'd be a little less generous with the paint... I've never used Medium Matte for Acrylic before, so I really didn't know what to expect... also, working in the dim lighting of my bedroom probably did not help either...

But with further ado here is my outcome! :)

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Very nice work manji!!!!! It looks great; glad the tutorial helped out. The matte medium and paint is tough in the beginning, just working in very thin layers is best and using only a tiny bit of paint. But I like the way your book looks, there are shots of very worn versions of the book in the movie as well! Cool
 
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ecl said:
I put in marbled endpages for the Potion book, and also found a potentially interesting technique that involves transfering digital printouts onto different surfaces, which might make it possible to get text onto the blank pages.
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Where did you find the marble end pages?
 
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