My wife and I love Doctor Who, so for this Christmas I wanted to do something slightly different for her. River Song is one of our favorite characters (along with Captain Jack) so I wanted to make River’s famous blue book.
Book cover was made from cardboard bound with faux leather and painted with several layers of blues to build up the highlights.
Pages are simply stained with coffee to age them. Images and text were a combination of images printed and worked into with ink, paint and pencil and straight up drawings done by hand.
The cover could use a little more work but it turned out pretty well and my wife loved it (combined it with a Tardis Key) which is the important thing.
This is more than exceptional. I wish I could do this. I’ve been looking into method to try and do this with Myst journals. You mentioned that the text was a mix of hand-drawn and printed in. Do you have a doc file or a pdf that I could take a look at?
I have .PSD files of the pages but I have no plans on sharing at the moment as I am looking into the possibility of creating several books for sale or auction.
Would you care to elaborate on your method of transferring the printed images into the journal?
When do you think you would be able to sell copies of the book (if you decide you will create more)? Absolutely wonderful, I would never be able to do something like this.