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Rise of Hawk, Part 2, Scene 10* 10 *

Cheetah held it at arms length and stared at it like it was an alien. The baby blinked sightlessly back at her. It was podgy and warm, and it had a giant head with eyes bigger than she thought possible for such a small creature. It absently lifted one arm up and put most of its hand in its mouth to suck on. Drool spilled slowly down the strange creatures chin.

Cheetah blinked, her emerald green eyes staring almost fearfully at the creature. What was she supposed to do with this ball of flesh and bones and... and... fluids?

For a completed mission, I must kill the child. She thought firmly. But I tried to shoot it before. The crazy l

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Ok, so, wow, this has taken me ages to get around to, and two days to actually do, photograph and put together in tutorial form.

This is my cheaty bookbinding method.

I have no machines or nice paper/card suppliers, so I kind of have to adapt what others do so they work for me. The most expensive bit to buy via this method is probably the duct tape.

I hope it's clear enough. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I'll go-a-searching later on after dinner to find the tutorials I learned from and adapted to do this method.

Also, disclaimer: I am not a professional book binder, at least not in the proper way. I do my best to make them very pretty and work, but I'm not professionally trained (I'm self-trained), and I have no machines or gear or whatever else. So, please don't take this tutorial as the be-all and end-all of how to do book binding. I'm an amateur.

That said, I worked really hard on this, it's my gift to :iconabigtreehugger: for catching my kiriban.

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EDIT: I see my typical long sentences, typos and overly wordiness has not taken a break for this tutorial. I'm sorry. Can't fix it now., will attack it again later and perhaps add a few more pictures so we can keep the names for parts of the book construction consistent.

>.< Sorry.
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~EatThatCookie May 4, 2013  Student General Artist
The best bookbinding tutorial i have found so far. It is in really good quality and easy to overlook. :) thank you.
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*keyanadrake May 5, 2013  Professional Writer
:blush: Thank you!
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=Riemea Apr 28, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Thanks for sharing this great tutorial, it's very helpful! It has been featured here :)
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*keyanadrake Apr 28, 2013  Professional Writer
Oh! Thank you! That's awesome! :D
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=Riemea Apr 29, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
You're very welcome!
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~umi17anime Apr 9, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
How long and how wide is the book when you finished it? I will be using this tutorial for a project at school and you may be expecting more questions if I'm having an issue. ^^' Thanks for making this tutorial. :)
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*keyanadrake Apr 10, 2013  Professional Writer
No problem. :)

Um, it was maybe an inch thick. But you can make it as thick as you want it, if you want it to be super thick, you just need to layer the ducttape so it still forms a good spine, or use some other appropriate material to bind up the spine.
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~xxJaimi122xx Jan 11, 2013
This is excellent but I'm a bit confused about the sowing part....
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*keyanadrake Jan 14, 2013  Professional Writer
Thank you! :)

I tried to find the tutorial I learned the stitching from but they seem to have gone. If you wait a little while I'll put up another tutorial just for the stitching. I'll see if I can do it on the weekend for you. :)
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~psychovampire11 Jan 2, 2013   Writer
WOW! I will so be doing this^^ I'm trying to make a book for my little sister as a surprise about a story she told me. And she wants me to read it to her every night when I make it xD
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