Some illustrations I made for my TTPD Lyric Books
🎵 It's been a long time coming 🎵
The Tortured Poets Department: Anthology Lyric Book
About the bind: ✦ I wanted to do something that allows the book to open up flatly, and learned about Swiss binding! It's when the book is only half attached to the casing, and the text block spine is exposed, which means the book is easier to open up flatly. I saw the Bachelor Project of Johannes Pistorius where he did a swiss binding of Grimm's fairy tales with the cutout window on the cover. ✦ Also my first time doing a coptic stitch. Had to buy a curved needle to sew the textblock ✦ Also first time painting a spine! I used acrylic colors and then added glue after the paint dried ✦ Printed on 180gm sketching paper ✦ All illustrations are done by me, photos are from the album ✦ Collected all handwritten lyrics from photos I found online and album variations I ordered. Extra shoutout to my friend for sending me the lyrics she had at home AND going to Target to grab me the Target versions for the last two missing lyrics