Hello, and welcome back to my illuminated manuscript of the NIV Bible, Book of Genesis. As discussed in earlier posts, this is a project that I made for myself to experiment with illuminated manuscript whilst making my way through the Bible, a traditional manuscript for illumination. I try to bring some creativity and fun into the lettering and illustrations. It's all done in a hardbound sketchbook, colored with magic marker, gel pens and colored pencil, so it's a fun little practice project.
Being a casual and experimental project, I'm learning as I go what works and what doesn't. There are messy bits, awkward bits, and many places where my materials have simply betrayed me! For example, the black pen I was using for lettering seemed fine at first, but eventually reacted with the paper to leach out into a weird mess, creating bluish blobs on the page and reducing legibility. It took a while for it to do that, so I was already on Chapter 7 before I realized there was an issue and switched pens. I'm sure it's easy to see where that happened, but just to verify, it's on the page with the Noah's Ark illustration. Good news - the lettering will now be much clearer and easier to read, barring any further unforeseen reactions.
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
As always, you can click the first picture to enlarge it and then scroll through the pages from there.
Here is the first post, if you'd like to start at the beginning (everything else links forward from there).
Here is the most recent post (everything links backward, too. Hooray for completism!)
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