Enough disgusting laziness! I’m back to work and back to the project that started this whole occult book thing, the NECRONOMICON from the original Evil Dead. This time I will be uploading the pages I make as soon as they are done Instead of the usual HUGE ZIP file. Please click the image below to go to my dropbox gallery where you can download them individually or all together in a ZIP. Enjoy! Download the pages HERE Lets try this dropbox gallery thing, looks quite useful for me since I don’t have to be zipping and uploading stuff and you guys can download the files as soon as its ready instead of waiting for another 666 weeks until I finish. I have about 70 pages ordered and ready to start tracing and inking, some from the original movies, others from DVD covers, some I will invent as always. I have also gathered screen-caps from the book on the new series so there’s a LOT of work still to be done I guess I’ll be posting updates once a week or so. See you later! ( Be good deadites and shere! -> http://elderprops.com/necronomicon-evildead-1981/
Medieval DOOM
I wanted to make a lot more pages for today (since its the release of DOOM 4), but alas, I was busy with my own game release that I hope will post here later today… In any case, here is the first page of my new project (and the first book I make that is completely original). I was thinking that the the demonic invasion that happens on DOOM could have happened before, in other planets, such as earth in the dark ages so I inventing the diary of the sole survivor of that invasion (MEDIEVAL DOOM). Here are the only two pages I managed to more-or-less finish for today. A part of the entry on CACODEMONS (one of the coolest enemies of all videogames). Ill be uploading my progress as soon as its ready. (No downloads yet, I´m actually planing on putting actual text and a story)
Tiny DOOM
(NON-prop related post!) UPDATE!: MiniDOOM is ready to play! Doom 4 will be released very soon, and it was a very influential game in my childhood (a million years ago) so my brother and I are making a parody game as a tribute. It will be doom as it was an old school platformer. I’m in charge of making all the graphics, animations and backgrounds while my brother does the programing. Here is a screenshot: Some of the sprites i made: For more silliness go to my illustration blog over HERE (PD, I’m also making an occult book about doom… more updates as soon as I actually start that…)
Me, at the Replica Prop Forum
If you’re into props and replicas and haven’t visited the RPF yet, please do, it’s a magical place. And in case your also a member, here is my profile: JCPORCEL
Gravity Falls Journal 3 – Extra Pages
Here are some of the pages I invented to add to my Journal 3 replica. You can download them all on the downloads page! You can download them all on the Gravity Falls download page!
Gravity Falls Journal 3 – download all pages
So, when I started this project one of the main objectives was to re-create hi-resolution version of all the pages to share with the internet since I wasn’t able to find any while creating my replica and I bet theres a couple crazy people out there that also want to make their own journals. Once I finished all the canon pages I realized there were many awesome creatures and artifacts that never show up on the book within the show so I re-watched the series another 4 times and created new pages for every episode that was missing in the book. Here I leave you a ZIP file on my download section where you can download them all. There are landscape pages Folio size in 300dpi. Download here! Download here! As always It´s all for free, use them as you like, if you put a link back to this page, that´d be really nice, if not, its ok too. Enjoy! And I will tell everyone yet again, if you have not watched this series, please do, it’s amazing.
Gravity Falls Journal 3 – Part 8: last details
And finally, the last details are added, which are the photos, maps and other schematics that go glued or attached with tape to the book: Done! And yes… there should be a lot of red parts… but since I made photocopies so the coffee wouldn’t wash away the ink while aging the paper… everything had to be black =(. Color photocopies are rather expensive.. and there were a lot of pages to copy… so there, convenience won this time… If you want to download all the pages in hi-res including the ones i invented, head over to the download page (its all for free!) Keep it mysterious! And watch Gravity Falls if you have not, it’s a masterpiece of animation, storytelling, character design, narrative, coloring, etc, etc, etc.
Gravity Falls Journal 3 – Part 7: final assembly
To fix the hand to the cover I just went with screws. It is very strong, and I think it look cool and medieval. I made holes in the copper with this tool: Here is the hand with holes in the copper sheet ready, and the number “3″ painted with black nail polish: Here are the are the corner parts: If you want to know how I made and painted these, here is a post I made about the process in more detail. Its very important to make small holes before putting in the screws so that the wood, trupan or other material you are using wont split once the screws go in. This is the only pieces that i bought, some cool metal corners: Here is the cover with the hand and corner pieces all screwed in place: But since the book is actually red, I used cherry colored acrylic paint to give the leather a red-ish hue. Also a couple of gold painted straps for the side. And the book is almost done. To be continued!
Gravity Fals Jounal 3 – Part 6: leather cover
For the cover of the book I used actual leather since I already make all my book with it and I had a lot at hand… This is my half-a-cow-hide, it’s called “Sally”. And here is the book on top of the leather to calculate the size of the leather I needed to cut: The leather already cut: Then I just used some strong white glue (if you have wood glue use that) After pasting the leather I cut the remaning part out. Yes, i know this is very far from the correct way to cover a book with leather, but 1) its very very fast and easy, and 2) I kinda like it… so there… I’m lazy… By the way, for the back part i just covered the leather in this fantastic kind of duct tape that’s made out of fabric. It looks like this, really have no idea whats its official name… And yes.. I know that the journal from Gravity Falls is red all around and has no black parts.. but I usually just make some changes on the original designs if I like them so this is one of those changes. To be continued!
Gravity Fals Jounal 3 – Part 5: The 6-finger hand
To make the hand on the cover I first turned a screenshot of the book into the size of the paper I wanted to use (half-folio). Here is the printout on my pre-cut piece of trupan (already on the correct size of the final book) just for a final size check: Paper hand cut on top of a random crap of trupan: I sprayed the whole thing with whatever color I had near: And then I lifted the paper and had a perfect mark to cut out the trupan. Here is the trupan hand allready cut: And here is the sheet of copper that I used to make the metal cover of the trupan hand: Here is the coper hand ready to go on top of the trupan part: And finally, here is the trupan hand, covered with the copper sheet (u used ). To be continued!