Designing a cover for my fountain pen book!

Happy Holidays, pen people!
I’ve got some exciting things to share with you. I made a book! And you can get that book for free on my website. Did I tell you I have a website? I’m not very good at communicating things.
Anyway, here’s my website:
www.stepheninks...
In this video, I’m designing the cover for my book, and talking about the inspiration behind making it, and some of the challenges I had to get over.
Here are some of the tools I used:
Pen: The PenBBS 456 was my pen of choice for about 99% of the drawings in this book (can you guess the two drawings I didn’t use it on?)
Here’s a link to that pen:
www.etsy.com/l...
Noodler’s Bulletproof Black was the ink of choice:
amzn.to/47g7mWH
And all of my digitizing and layouts for the book were done using the Affinity Creative Suite. If you’re looking for an alternative to subscription services like Adobe Creative Cloud (boo subscriptions!) you should check them out:
affinity.serif...
Some of my links are affiliate links. That means that I get a commission at no cost to you. You know the drill. Help me buy more pens.
Thanks! If you enjoy my content, give me a like and a subscribe!
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You can also connect to me, download my book about fountain pens, and find me on other social media platforms through my website:
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Contents:
00:00 Introduction
01:11 Cover Ideas
04:48 Ink Fill
07:05 Cover drawing
10:03 My digitizing process
22:40 How to find my book
24:40 Final Thoughts

[@user-gl5ld9vm7i]

Congratulations Stephen! Good for you!
A great accomplishment 😊

[@oscardalby7524]

I've got it downloaded ready to read over in the morning. Very grateful that you're giving it away free. Wonderful illustrations as always. - Oscar

[@stepheninks]

Thanks! Hope you enjoy!

[@LittleKikuyu]

So cool!! 😎

[@valc9726]

Congrats Stephen! The cover is very fitting for your book. I'm looking forward to reading it! I love your illustrations. :)

[@stepheninks]

Thanks for the kind words. I am very proud of this book!

[@jackigarcia2819]

Hi Stephen! I love the cover page!! Thank you for sharing your art and hard work. I really enjoy your videos.

[@stepheninks]

Thanks! I’ve really been enjoying making some of the more recent ones!

[@eugenborcan]

Hey, I use Affinity as well - pretty cool program!
Congrats on your book - well done!

[@stepheninks]

This just happened to work out this way, but I think they were having a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale when I published this video. Worth it either way. I love using the Affinity Suite.

[@cerealnana]

How exciting! I'm off to download now!

[@stepheninks]

Enjoy!

[@unknowncrash1]

Cool

[@stepheninks]

Enjoy!

[@ichirofakename]

I'm too late to the game. I need a book on how to GET RID OF pens.

[@LittleKikuyu]

Just make some pen loving friends and give them gifts for the next 60 years 😂

[@stepheninks]

My expertise does not lie in that field.