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

[Snowfire]

Awesome work mate, looks very authentic. Take one of these to the HP tour in England, and they would probably arrest you thinking you've stolen an original :lol

Book on the go at moment, but deffo see the difference.

 

[shaunsheep]

great stuff weredid you get your covers done?

 

[LorduDesign]

ecl Nice job! Snowfire Great!

 

[Snowfire]

great stuff weredid you get your covers done?

It's just normal artwork but it's printed onto canvas. It probably looks slightly different due to it being printed on canvas.

Have a friend who's also doing 'The Tales of Beedle The Bard' in original runes, with Hermione's hand written translations in it (about 250 pages).

 

[ecl]

Thanks for the comments above! Aging the book is the most fun part It's funny how I'm intentionally doing something that naturally happens to books when they're heavily used. I should make a clean copy and give it to a kid to carry around for a year at school...maybe that will be even more convincing haha!

A couple more progress pictures! I sprayed the edges of the book in metallic silver (hard to show in the pics), and aged the book a bit more. Next up is figure out some of the handwritten stuff on the inside.

 

[sonicfreak04]

how do you spray the edge silver? is the paper in the book matte? and if you put coffee on the pages will the ink bleed?

 

[ecl]

how do you spray the edge silver? is the paper in the book matte? and if you put coffee on the pages will the ink bleed?

I masked the cover with paper towel and painters tape and just spray painted it with Duplicator brand silver. Works out pretty well! It's not chrome looking like some gilded edges, but a more subdued metallic. But I like that as it looks more worn in a way. Normally I'd spray the pages first before adding the cover prints (to avoid possible overspray and reduce the masking work), but I rushed into finishing the covers first this time.

The pages are a matte cream color. Blurb prints them like you would expect books to be printed, so the ink will not run. Usually only inkjet prints run seeing as they're water based inks. But keep in mind if you print the covers with an inkjet printer, they will run if you soak the prints in water. The method I use with the matte medium tinted with a hint of paint won't cause the ink to run as I'm brushing it on very quick and light.

 

[ecl]

Started on the text inside. I think I may just slowly add notes in this copy just for the hell of it. In process, it'll also make the pages seem more worn as I work in it.

 

[LorduDesign]

ecl looks great! how can I emboss/deboss without machine like you did on Tales of Beedle the Bard? Because I'm working on Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore and it looks better when embossed!

 

[ecl]

@ecl looks great! how can I emboss/deboss without machine like you did on Tales of Beedle the Bard? Because I'm working on Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore and it looks better when embossed!

I actually kind of cheated when I did the "embossing" on my old Beedle Bard book. I used a metal burnishing tool (metal with a small ball shape at the end.) and basically pushed into the areas that wanted recessed, like the runes I believe. It just simply made indentions in the cover to make it appear like it was embossed. Your Dumbledore book would be tougher as you'd want a cleaner look, like what you might see on some real book covers.

 

[ecl]

A peak at some of the notes I'm adding. From what I can see on the originals, the notes are generally illegible or extremely hard to read (even up close), with the exception of a few keywords that just "pop" out, but overall they give the impression of being convincing. It looks pretty interesting.

 

[LorduDesign]

Looks great! Can you provide link for your blurb version of book?

 

[Snowfire]

Casual notes are ecl, I knew you wouldn't be able to put this one down.

 

[Snowfire]

So the APM book is finally complete, now can move onto 'tales of beedle the bard', then finally onto the moving monster book.

Here's few pics.

 

[ecl]

Very nice work! I love the aged pages!

 

[a438980]

Sooo... not sure if this is actually the book that was made here or if someone else is trying to cash-in off your work, but I just saw this on eBay.

 

[Snowfire]

Yeah same one.
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Two were made, just seeing if anyone crazy enough to buy it at that price.

 

[LTsmash1200]

If I do make extra copies I'll start something in the JY. The fabric covers look nice, as the texture adds more depth to the print. Adding foil is a little more difficult as the toner tends to not like the more fuzzy surface. BUT, if you're going to do the foil on the fabric, make sure to select the copier to "text" and darken it a notch. That will help to get more toner onto the copy which will make it easier for the foil to attach to via iron.

I'd buy one if you do decide to make extras. Just sayin'.

 

[Belladonna]

Hello! Looking for a paper replica of the Marauder's Map, does anyone have a good one?

 

[Cameron]

Heya Ecl, I got the book from Blurb..awesome. Im looking for the properly sized cover file to print out. Did I miss a new link in this thread?