kalkamel
Master Member
I last made a diary back in 2008 (which was based on CWV's printable story diary). CWV's printable diary was a great base for a story diary, but I've always wanted to make a hero diary. I was under no illusion that I can hand write an entire diary; my handwriting is so fugly that the diary would turn out to be more ramblings of a mental case rather than Henry Jones Sr. So I decided to shelve the diary project, with a view of reworking the pages at a later date, specifically, when I have acquired some further skills with graphic editing software required to make and compile such pages.
It is now approaching the tail end of 2012 and I have decided to reacquaint myself with this old friend. Thanks to the numerous info which has come to light in recent years on the actual pages and the contributions of Indy Magnoli and Holt in Club Obi-wan on the subject thereof, I began to compile the pages that would make up the signatures of the diary.
I've been familiarizing myself with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, so using the reference pics, I tweaked some of the available graphics and redrew some others. I also used the JonesSr handwriting font which I thought looked way better and more realistic than the Henry Jones 3 font and worked on the pages in AI and once done, I compiled them in Acrobat.
I printed out the pages on off-white/ivory 100gsm paper (same paper I'm using for my Nine Gates) on a laser printer, cut them to size and folded them into signatures. Here's how they look like after cutting:
And here they are after some good ole' coffee and tea weathering.
The pages, with the endpaper by barneyrfd (thanks, mate!):
Tibetan skull:
Omphalos:
Ceridwen with blue coloring:
Columns and Melchizadek:
Sword and scroll:
Single kneeling knights:
Drinking stag and ****** window:
The page where the Silver Dollar will be pasted in:
Prestor John:
The spreads to be pasted in after binding:
More spreads:
The maps:
I found some nice calf-skin leather recently so will be binding these pages soon. Hope to update this thread with pics of the bound book in the near future.
It is now approaching the tail end of 2012 and I have decided to reacquaint myself with this old friend. Thanks to the numerous info which has come to light in recent years on the actual pages and the contributions of Indy Magnoli and Holt in Club Obi-wan on the subject thereof, I began to compile the pages that would make up the signatures of the diary.
I've been familiarizing myself with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, so using the reference pics, I tweaked some of the available graphics and redrew some others. I also used the JonesSr handwriting font which I thought looked way better and more realistic than the Henry Jones 3 font and worked on the pages in AI and once done, I compiled them in Acrobat.
I printed out the pages on off-white/ivory 100gsm paper (same paper I'm using for my Nine Gates) on a laser printer, cut them to size and folded them into signatures. Here's how they look like after cutting:
And here they are after some good ole' coffee and tea weathering.
The pages, with the endpaper by barneyrfd (thanks, mate!):
Tibetan skull:
Omphalos:
Ceridwen with blue coloring:
Columns and Melchizadek:
Sword and scroll:
Single kneeling knights:
Drinking stag and ****** window:
The page where the Silver Dollar will be pasted in:
Prestor John:
The spreads to be pasted in after binding:
More spreads:
The maps:
I found some nice calf-skin leather recently so will be binding these pages soon. Hope to update this thread with pics of the bound book in the near future.
