Imagine illustrating the recipes as if they were magic potions and consumables, write about the ingredients as though they were spell components, and mythologizing the histories of the family members who created or shared the recipes?
Listen, that right there is a family heirloom. This is the book where you draw up the plans for the projects you do on the channel (or for personal.) Then each project is immortalized in the massive "Nerdforge Sacred Tome" which becomes a history of your works done. Also, the first project you design in it should be the pedestal that it will stand on, so that you have something that makes it easy to move around and write in.
Send it from Art RUclipsr to Art RUclipsr and have each draw a page of the book. Imagine a gigantic collection of various artitsts condensed into one, thumpy boi, book.
Dude, you should do it a collective artist piece. Ask a bunch of artist to paint a double page with a theme, sorcery or someting like that. It would ve awosme to fill those huge pages!!
Wow, your idea gave me another idea!! Imagine if each double page of the book was actually one of those crazy fantasy paintings you talked about, but the theme of them was a magic spell, so each page kind of shows the magic through that painting, with a person casting it or samthing like that. And in one corner, there would be some text that teaches you the spell, along with a description of the magic, its limitations, prohibitions on use, or the history behind the magic and its creator.
I just love that Martina said she might use the glove in the future, then went on using it in every project since then. It just melts my heart that she could create something so awesome, that actually helps her create such amazing things as this epic book 💜
I completly forgot that she was missing a finger! watching this whole video i didnt even notice the glove, then it came up in my shorts feed, and now rewatching it I see it in half of the shots. Her projects are way too captivating, my focus never actually goes towards the hands making them :o
@@hattr_9239 Seems weird to make a prosthetic and not use it. Its likely those people either made it uncomfortable, poorly sized, don't need one day to day or they have a better one That, or they just made it for views. Which is pretty sleezy.
You could always use this book as a memoir of sorts of your projects . Like the left page have your sketches or blue prints and on the right page have pictures of the project 🤷🏻♀️
This book would be perfect for a massive art collab. Send it to artists all over the world, who then each get a page, and auction it off for charity afterwards, or something like that.
I can imagine seeing all kinds of fantasy plants/rocks/animals/cities and maps discovered in such a book, simply a huge chronicle of everything that can be found in the magical world. And all this on a huge pedestal, ideally with LED lighting. As for the spellbook, then with everything.
yess please make it into an "actual" spell book, wear the pages down with like coffee so it looks old and make up a world in there would be soo fun to see
I would love to see you make an entire series making a fantasy world in that book. Like adding creature details, spells, details on places like haunted woods etc
Just need a pedestal that matches your wizard room for your book. Fill it as a Journal of your projects with sketches, or family recipes, or pictures but as pencil sketches, or any visiting b artist put their own personal sketch in and sign it. Whatever you do, it's gorgeous
I think it would be interesting to draw all the projects that were made in the channel, like one page per project, hopefully one day the book will be filled :D
This is what I was thinking too. A giant history of Nerdforge book. Take their time and make it look like an ancient manuscript style. Big full page artworks and diagrams with nice flowy writing with the big fancy indented letters for descriptions of all the projects. Be so awesome for years down the line to look back in the giant book of stuff.
This is the first thing I taught: make it the official Nerdforge physical archive and book of schematics and brainstorming. Its size is not practical but a page provides a lot of room for creation.
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You should make a series where you try to fill in all the wizard tomes and spell books you've made with paintings and scripts with runes, ect. Maybe you could even make a journal or a recipe book, or just for tips that you have learned through your journey.
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The book must be called "The Millenary Book" and must be passed from artist to artist to be drawn. Imagine a fantasy book with over hundreds of different arts by different artists. Simply EPIC.
just imagining a giant wizard book with monster anatomy and facts with spells and lore, location art and things would be amazing. adding in text scrawl from little tips about the creature or useful information about something found in a location would make an amazing small series (collaboration with different artists would be amazing). [slight inspiration from the greatest art collaboration video] have fun Martina and Hansi. :D
If she plays dnd it would be a great book to chronicle the story of her campaign with illustrations of monsters, people and cites that they have fought met and visited. Amazing book as always
I just love how much goofier and therefore more genuine feeling Marina became throughout the years. She eased into the online personality role and I love her to bits for it!
I just love how comfortable Hansi got in front of the camera! Way back when he still seemed so shy! and I think it's needless to say how awesome this project came out
If weight weren't an issue, it would be cool to have different artists around the world painting or illustrating a spread, writing a 2-page story or short graphic comic✨
As a variation, focusing on the type of artists who focus on describing magical items for DnD and have those kinds of people loosen up the format and make something in it could potentially make for a book describing a buttload of mysterious and magical things. Might be hard to find enough of them though for all pages, and I'm honestly not sure what kind of artist/creator you'd need to tease to get creative spell-pages or descriptions of mythological creatures in there :)
@@pattheplanter Luggage space though…. Don’t know if this is practical as carryon. I don’t expect Nerdforge to fly with the book to every creator but maybe if creators fly to Norway, this project can be possible.
It would be amazing if this book roamed from artist to artist and each one fill 1 page with story writen/drawn. The end result would be amazing and unique
Yes. This project reminds me of the giant art history books at the library that you often aren't allowed to check out (at least at my college). I think it would be neat to also collaborate on building a narrative, perhaps children's short stories or darkish nursey rhymes/cautionary tales, from which the artists could draw ;) some inspiration.
Yes, this book would probably fit some sort of group collab or public interaction - it seems way to big to fit a one-person project well. Like, a one-person project could probably be done but would it really unleash this book's true potential?
I know it would take a lot of time, but what if you made it into a fantastical spellbook or alchemist's journal? Complete with sketches of ingredients or drawings of spell circles surrounded by notes and observational paintings of magic, gems, finished potions - whatever!
Wait wait.. combine this with the family-recipe cookbook idea, but illustrate every recipe like it's an alchemist's journal. So it's a recipe for meatloaf but there's like crazy wizard notes and sketches of onions and shit everywhere. ...now i want to make one of these myself.
A spell book this size would be super great for a scrapbook of all your adventures and collections. Kind of like what our famous wizards had. Beautiful drawings as well especially bc they could be so highly detailed and kept collectively all in one place.
Fun fact- paper quilling is a hobby that was born out of finding a use for all those paper edge bits that come from book marking. Paper quilling is also super pretty
For the trimming of book edges actual bookbinders use press/guillotine combo. The traditional (hand-operated) machine takes half a room of space, there is a huge flywheel which you turn to drop the blade down on the immobilized tome.
I’ve had an idea for awhile now about a “similarly gargantuan sized book” but to make it as a sort of family heirloom journal that gets passed down through the generations and family reunions where everyone can write in… Like just imagine having a family journal that size on a book stand that can chronicle personal histories of a family for however many generations that the size of those pages can last for!!!
I could see you doing epic drawings in that book, magical places, mythical plants, maybe do some writting about the place or plants you do in them. Make it like a field journal for a wizard of your fantasy. Could be stuff that was already in books you love like the Potter series or just your own made up things. I want to see your own takes on mythical things myself but you can do whatever you feel like doing in it.
Sooo another youtuber sends a paintings to various RUclipsrs each one doing an art piece to create a mural. When the piece is done its auctioned for charity. How EPIC would it be if she did that for both calligraphy and RUclips. Like let one side be the written bits and than on the other side an image depiction of the ingredients or the final result of whatever it is. O.o idk how much it would auction for, buuuut whoever buys it for charity could get to add their own thing if any pages are left and if there is a TON of space remaining just pass it down. Yes magical spells and recipes could be added, but also short stories and maybe poems as well :) It would be a first that I have seen.
Okay this is probably my favourite project so far! You could fill it with paintings you do or make it like a compendium of all your projects over the years! That'd be epic!
Imagine having this as a guest book at the entrance of your door! Or at a wedding where all the guests can write greetings and well-wishes to the couple!
There's enough room in that book you could include weddings, birthdays, funerals, and chronicle the entire family tree in detail for the next 7 generations.
Wow, so my grandfather actually passed down three "massive chunkyboi" books from the 1930s (size A3, the books are collections of newspapers in more or less full form from 1930-1933) It's amazing seeing how such a book is made. Mine are not in such a good condition as yours though. Mine were stitched on the side and only included "a cover" on the front and back, not on the side; that part is purely held together by threats (it's not in a bad state, it's just that they made the cover of the side purely by stitching).
Turn the book into a Nerdforge encyclopedia!! 😃 Put in stuff about your past projects, but do it in a way to make the book feel like a photo album i.e. make the book fun to scroll through ✨✨✨
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I just love how Martina always complains about how hard its gonna be but then knocks it out of the Park. Amazing dedication and craftsmanship with some funky wave beats in the background. Keep it up guys. You the best 💓
That's the kind of book that lives on a podium in the wizard's library and is either the index for the entire library or the family grimoire that just... never leaves it's podium. I love it so much.
I can definitely see it being like the grimoire of the founder of the library, kept on an ornate podium, along with the founders matching oversized feather pen, hat/ cloak & their staff as like some sacred wizarding artifacts. meanwhile the founders talking portrait just says the book was only that big because he lost a bet or something.
Your new sketch book is EPIC, Martina! You could hand letter your own manuscript, make a family cookbook/potions book, write your life story or your family history.... Lots of options!
This should be the adventurer’s guild book of everything where parties add the creatures they encounter with illustrations, magic items they found, dungeons they explored and spells and potions they created. Throughout the book there could be different entries from different characters and you see the sorts of things that inspire them. One could be a scatter brained fey witch who comes up with all sorts of creative potions though many are failures or have unintended consequences much to the horror of the alchemist who also contributes to the book. The Warlock and The Paladin are having an argument throughout the book about their respective patrons and adding comments to the other’s entries. The Bard reveals they both secretly love the other but their viewpoints are getting in the way of that. The wizard has added a list of their spells and some of their own arcane creations as he tries to educate the reader by adding annotations and comments to clarify things.
Ok I've been mulling this over for a full day now and I have an EPIC idea for the THICCBOI book. It definitely gives giant spellbook vibes so why not not lean into that and make it a Grimoire? STAY WITH ME .. I promise that's not the epic part. So you give it the Grimoire aesthetic but instead of spells, potions, charms, and talismans you use it to document your most epic projects. Like including past ones. All your favorites projects and maybe ours too. 😆 But you document then spell/recipe style and list steps and materials and maybe include little margin notes or material scraps to add to the aesthetic. So it'd be like a Nerdforge how-to scrapbook that looks like a giant EPIC Grimoire. It'd be badass. And then yes you need to make it an awesome podium to sit on at all times because a book that size really does need a good place to sit and be admired. A book throne if you will.
You should paint the sides of your spell book like you’ve done before on other books. It would make it extra magical lol I love it tho, it’s absolutely beautiful and the craftsmanship is amazing! 🤩
You should use the book as a giant sketch book for your projects and just draw all the concept art on them! It could be like a giant history of all the cool stuff you’ve made.
I love love love the end result. 1. How much does it weigh? 2. What if you did some crazy huge drawing/painting challenge? Or 3. What if you did a detailed picture that is layered and carved into the whole text block, so that if you look at all the pages together it makes one awesome scene.
We don't see Hansi on the channel nearly as much as Martina but every time he does show up I'm reminded just how well his energy compliments Martina's. There's a mutual chaotic vibe between them that works really well lol.
Imagine writing every single comebacks and swears you have ever heard of and can think of, then passing it down to future generations so that they can do the same
What I love about you guys is that whenever you get the hankering to make something happen, you just do it! It takes time, a LOT of effort, and a whole lot of love, but you get such a beautiful piece in the end! And it never fails to amaze! That being said, you have a giant spellbook, you made a giant wizard's tower, soooo...wouldn't now be an okay time to come up with some spells and potions, concoctions, if you will? Maybe some maps or ingredients lists and the like? You could totally get into the whole calligraphy bit and make it all fancy, maybe even stain the pages a bit to make them look weathered and aged! Or, oooooooh, make up your own fantasy realm and make spells and potions for that place!
I just had an idea as Martina carried the finished book at 19:55 of her in costume, bringing this book out to a table with a group of adventurers (or their brainy members anyway) going through tomes for information on something, dragons for instance; Martina arrives at the table, drops the tome, wipes her brow, takes a deep breath...... "Oh, thank you, but we don't need that book anymore. We found what we needed." Martina hefts the book with a scowl, wanders off to put it back in safe storage, grumbling. Hmmm, maybe Joe Manganiello or Wizards of the Coast will see this and add it to their next D&D project. I know Joe is making a D&D documentary; but I recall him saying he wanted to make more D&D movies; a TV show with a recurring role for this super tome would be cool.
it would be awesome to fill the book with stories about the projects you guys make, but told as a fairy tale of the two best craftsmen in the land :). you guys make the most stunning projects!!!
Loving all the ideas I've read so far. Too many to keep reading, but imagine this with all your family photos, aged up to look vintage, and laid out scrapbook style inside. What an amazing product to pass down through the generations. Hand made and full of personal photos.
You could totally do a year-long series where you paint/illustrate something new in the book every week . Though I understand that it would take a ton of time and effort.
Not gonna lie, each page in the spellbook seems big enough for an entire painting If you wanted to make things even harder for yourself you could attempt to fill every page with paintings
Very cool. Could this be the start of a giant youtube collab where the book is passed around to other artists to fill? Would be epic. If a bit costly in postage lol.
You should build a grand easel for the book! One that can hold the book in any orientation so you can do your most epic paintings in the most epic book.
So freaking cool! I think it would be perfect for a project journal. A massive collection of concept ideas, evolutions and final results. An artistic homage to Davinci's notebook.
Great for writing family history. If only I was good at calligraphy! I'm going to print my family history book and then bind it like this with my family's emblem as the centre piece. I certainly have the content to fill out this book and more, but I can successfully make it like this is another matter. I haven't seen anybody done this yet, and this is what I've been looking for for years. Thanks
Came back a year later, because I love the book videos. An awesome idea to use this for? Any conventions you have a booth on, or any collaborations with people, ask if they want to do something with one (or even two) pages of this, and use it kinda like a scrap book. Have some pages marked out for signatures and things. AND an even BETTER Idea...Have it passed around family and guests to your eventual wedding, and have people sign and draw in it, and use it as the guest book for your wedding. Or, even do ALL of the above, and have it be a family log, passed down, as well
Definitely think this should be turned into an actual giant spell book/ horticulture book. I'm also surprised you didn't stain the paper! (I mean, I know it's huge paper, but an ancient spell book should have nicely worn pages) ❤
How about another sketchbook filling challenge? Where you fill all the pages with an illustration, or maybe you can take pictures of your former projects and use this HUGE thing as a scrapbook of art memories! Hope you had a good vacation! Looking forward to seeing your next Amazing project!
You should use it to make a retelling of all your projects : a double page for each, with drawing of the final result, diagrams and step by step explainations. You can make a video out of catching up to now, and keep adding to it as you forge create new things
Love the end result! >I would actually turn it into a kind of a collection of fantasy stuff, like dividing it into several parts (creatures, races -dwarfs elven...-, flora, architecture...) and pencil draw each one (1 per page) so it creates kind of a dictionnaire of a fantasy world (idk if you can even comprehend what I'm trying to say lmao) but that would be so cool, like the book with all the dragon types in How to train your dragon!
I like that the stamping in the lining looks imperfect, it makes the book look naturally weathered over time, the tome came out amazing as usual! Great job Martina & Hansi also i love the idea of martina sitting at her desk and one day deciding she needs to make a massive book almost the size of herself, just so she can THUMP on the table haha
As it is a wizard's tome, I imagine collecting spells, recipes, and musings from your favorite works of media would be a fun project! Basically making it an anthology of all those awesome mages and characters quirks in one massive collection
I've watched a few of your videos now and loved them. I thought surely, surely watching a video about someone making a huge book couldn't be that fun... But it totally was! Awesome. Love it.
I love this! Maybe you could fashion a big stand for it, and put pictures of your projects in there with dates so it becomes like one of those ancient record books?
You should draw sketches of all the things you made, with descriptions of them. Like where the inspiration for them came from, the steps it took to create them, stuff like that. That would be so cool
Honestly I don't even care what specifically Martina creates I just love her goofiness, honesty about the difficulties and frustrations of projects and positivity
I would love to see you make handmade paper with all the scraps from the floor! That being said, this tome is epic. Family stories and recipes would be my suggestion
You have been such an inspiration to me! You don't even know how you've changed my life I wanted to say thank you and really no one has to read further than this! But you have inspired me to try and strive to do art again, a year ago the tendon in my right thumb ruptured and I wasn't able to write let alone draw anything. I slowly retrained my hand to make readable letters and with persistence I have been able to do art again! It's not the best in the world but I'm so in love with my art and so happy that I can do anything! Thank you so much for the inspiration!
Wow, that looks really amazing. I have a handmade monster like this as well but not with a leather cover (yet) but I want to redo the cover with leather. Just one tip from a bookbinder for your next book project with a round back: The front edge is supposed to have the same round shape as the back. It is shaped with one hand pulling the upper side to you and the thump pressing into the front edge and with a hammer you shape the back. After the shaping is done apply the gauze on the back and glue it again. ❤
Omg! I feel like you should put some form of documentation of all of your past projects (or maybe just your favorites) on the page of the book! Things like pictures, explanations, QR codes to the videos, etc! It would be cool! ❤❤❤
Time to spend an endless amount of time decorating the inside of the book over the next year. Maybe spells descriptions in a fantasy language and the "Common" translation on the adjacent page? Maybe have it be a signature book for when y'all have people over, maybe spend time coffee/tea/burn weathering it to make it look old? Maybe it can be a big book of fairy tales that you paint illustrate onto(the pages look thick enough). Loved the video! Big mage books are a superb aesthetic.
You both are so talented, I am just amazed when watching you. This book is beautiful, absolutely magnificent ! It will last for 100s of years ... Your masterpiece is a family treasure ! Maybe if you recorded everything pertinent to your family history .... if you haven't done so yet, research your 4 family ancestry lines ... maternal and paternal for each of you. Start the book off with beautiful calligraphy of your Family Trees. Be sure to leave lots of room at the bottom of each for additions. Several pages later, start recording everything you know about your ancestors, down to your parents and you two. It think this is a great way to begin this book. The rest of the book ... I have no ideas yet. But the beginning should be a beautiful, graphic, fully documented family history for each of you, as far back as you can go. Good luck ! Keep us posted on what you end up doing with this !!
Amazing Martina! For the next book you should choose a theme for the book and have subscribers (or those who want to participate) send in a page each with lore, illustrations or whatever & put It all together to make a book. That could be fun!
Aww yesss! It's always an EVENT when a new Nerdforge video come out. I've been creating some leatherbooks myself and hope to make videos about them, and Nerdforge is a HUGE part of why I got into it, so I'm so glad to see another bookmaking video!
Expanding on the recipes ideas, I was thinking how some family books / records weren’t just one thing. They were a culmination of recipes, family stories, genealogical records, etc. With the size of the leaves, you could probably do one page per year or so, leaving some number of leaves at the front for a table of contents and other front material. That, my friend, will be quite a family tome and history.
It's amazing that you made more than one of these books. It looks so tedious and difficult to make and you have a great deal of patience. Awesome job!!!
imagine writing the family recipes there and passing a giant book through generations
With drawings/illustrations and apostils
I need to go make a giant book now
That's full on proper family grimoire territory. I love it!
Imagine illustrating the recipes as if they were magic potions and consumables, write about the ingredients as though they were spell components, and mythologizing the histories of the family members who created or shared the recipes?
That would be sick! Then slipping in some nudes to surprise the great grandkids 😂😂
A giant spell book really just needs... a giant spell book stand!
This.
Very this
With wheels for ease of moving
Maybe spells inside as well?
Yesss
Listen, that right there is a family heirloom. This is the book where you draw up the plans for the projects you do on the channel (or for personal.) Then each project is immortalized in the massive "Nerdforge Sacred Tome" which becomes a history of your works done.
Also, the first project you design in it should be the pedestal that it will stand on, so that you have something that makes it easy to move around and write in.
YES THIS IS SO UNDERRATED!
YES @nerdforge
Ah yes a pedestal!!!
YESSS
That needs to be done. Amazing
Send it from Art RUclipsr to Art RUclipsr and have each draw a page of the book. Imagine a gigantic collection of various artitsts condensed into one, thumpy boi, book.
Could you imagine the shipping costs on that? Whew!
i was thinking the same haha
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@@LolaBowla basically shipping an entire tree at that point lol
That's the best idea in the comment section omg
Oh my gosh YES!
Dude, you should do it a collective artist piece. Ask a bunch of artist to paint a double page with a theme, sorcery or someting like that. It would ve awosme to fill those huge pages!!
Wow, your idea gave me another idea!! Imagine if each double page of the book was actually one of those crazy fantasy paintings you talked about, but the theme of them was a magic spell, so each page kind of shows the magic through that painting, with a person casting it or samthing like that. And in one corner, there would be some text that teaches you the spell, along with a description of the magic, its limitations, prohibitions on use, or the history behind the magic and its creator.
@@philipevidal2169 that idea is great!
Great idea
I was think something similar I was thinking just make a drawing or painting or whatever on each page
AI like Midjourney or Dall-E can fill up the entire content if the book in 1 hour of prompting
I just love that Martina said she might use the glove in the future, then went on using it in every project since then. It just melts my heart that she could create something so awesome, that actually helps her create such amazing things as this epic book 💜
I think the bionic pinky glove is so cool. I'd use it for everything I could
I completly forgot that she was missing a finger! watching this whole video i didnt even notice the glove, then it came up in my shorts feed, and now rewatching it I see it in half of the shots.
Her projects are way too captivating, my focus never actually goes towards the hands making them :o
Yes
I love seeing Martina use her cyborg glove in all these new projects!
Same didn’t think she would use it but it’s cool to see her actually using it
I mean... its literally *why* she made it.
Only reason I didn’t think she would use it is cos some RUclipsrs do stuff like that and then never use them
As a cyberpunk fan, I approve. Chromed not just for chromed sake, her hardware is functional.
@@hattr_9239 Seems weird to make a prosthetic and not use it. Its likely those people either made it uncomfortable, poorly sized, don't need one day to day or they have a better one
That, or they just made it for views. Which is pretty sleezy.
You could always use this book as a memoir of sorts of your projects . Like the left page have your sketches or blue prints and on the right page have pictures of the project 🤷🏻♀️
Genius
SUCH A GREAT IDEA
This book would be perfect for a massive art collab. Send it to artists all over the world, who then each get a page, and auction it off for charity afterwards, or something like that.
That would be so cool but I bet that thing would cost an arm and a leg to ship anywhere 😅
YEs
That is a great idea. I hope Martina will do this.
This was my first thought! I bunch of cool fiction like D&D type drawings or maps
Yes! That would be awesome!
I can imagine seeing all kinds of fantasy plants/rocks/animals/cities and maps discovered in such a book, simply a huge chronicle of everything that can be found in the magical world. And all this on a huge pedestal, ideally with LED lighting. As for the spellbook, then with everything.
yess please make it into an "actual" spell book, wear the pages down with like coffee so it looks old and make up a world in there would be soo fun to see
I would love to see you make an entire series making a fantasy world in that book. Like adding creature details, spells, details on places like haunted woods etc
That'd be cool!!
Just need a pedestal that matches your wizard room for your book. Fill it as a Journal of your projects with sketches, or family recipes, or pictures but as pencil sketches, or any visiting b artist put their own personal sketch in and sign it. Whatever you do, it's gorgeous
I think it would be interesting to draw all the projects that were made in the channel, like one page per project, hopefully one day the book will be filled :D
oohh and maybe include schematics and sketches for the start of each project. Sort of like an architect's sketches before the final thing
This is what I was thinking too. A giant history of Nerdforge book. Take their time and make it look like an ancient manuscript style. Big full page artworks and diagrams with nice flowy writing with the big fancy indented letters for descriptions of all the projects. Be so awesome for years down the line to look back in the giant book of stuff.
agreed, i thought the same.
This!!! All of this!!!!
This is the first thing I taught: make it the official Nerdforge physical archive and book of schematics and brainstorming. Its size is not practical but a page provides a lot of room for creation.
OMG Martina needs to fill this with giant paintings! Sketch book pt 2! (Maybe give yourself a bit more time this go though!)💜
I was also thinking of the same, great idea tho
Yessss I wish I would have a sketchbook of that size
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yesssss!
not just paintings like a mural depicting a fantasy prophecy or legend
You should make a series where you try to fill in all the wizard tomes and spell books you've made with paintings and scripts with runes, ect. Maybe you could even make a journal or a recipe book, or just for tips that you have learned through your journey.
I know, I love seeing the books being made but it would be so cool to see the pages being filled on one!
I was just gonna say this!! It would be such a cool series
yessss, she really shouuldddd
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I need a book like this with the label being ''the book of grudges'' written on the cover.
lol
Have a Dwarf Army?
The book must be called "The Millenary Book" and must be passed from artist to artist to be drawn. Imagine a fantasy book with over hundreds of different arts by different artists. Simply EPIC.
I love seeing Hanzi in a video. Reminds me of the old days. They’re both so good at what they do. It’s nice to see them work together on camera.
I miss that too 😞
just imagining a giant wizard book with monster anatomy and facts with spells and lore, location art and things would be amazing. adding in text scrawl from little tips about the creature or useful information about something found in a location would make an amazing small series (collaboration with different artists would be amazing). [slight inspiration from the greatest art collaboration video] have fun Martina and Hansi. :D
That's a great idea!
Oooo that would be so cool 🤩🤩🤩
Yes! Yes! Yes! ❤❤❤
YES PLEASE I REALLY WANT TO SEE THAT
If she plays dnd it would be a great book to chronicle the story of her campaign with illustrations of monsters, people and cites that they have fought met and visited. Amazing book as always
This book HAS to be your Grimoire! A page for each of the projects you've worked on, with personal notes and lessons you learnt!
I just love how much goofier and therefore more genuine feeling Marina became throughout the years. She eased into the online personality role and I love her to bits for it!
Martina* it was probably autocorrect but just in case you didn't know !
I just love how comfortable Hansi got in front of the camera! Way back when he still seemed so shy! and I think it's needless to say how awesome this project came out
Yeah there is a clear evolution!
Martina also. Truly awesome
If weight weren't an issue, it would be cool to have different artists around the world painting or illustrating a spread, writing a 2-page story or short graphic comic✨
As a variation, focusing on the type of artists who focus on describing magical items for DnD and have those kinds of people loosen up the format and make something in it could potentially make for a book describing a buttload of mysterious and magical things. Might be hard to find enough of them though for all pages, and I'm honestly not sure what kind of artist/creator you'd need to tease to get creative spell-pages or descriptions of mythological creatures in there :)
Honestly, 1 I would do.
@@Dhaiwon I am a multi-dimensional artist and would be able to do anything magical themed from witches to beasts like griffins and unicorns ✌🏼🌟💜
I don't think airlines charge people by how heavy they are. Obviously, it would be insane to try shipping the book.
@@pattheplanter Luggage space though…. Don’t know if this is practical as carryon. I don’t expect Nerdforge to fly with the book to every creator but maybe if creators fly to Norway, this project can be possible.
You could do a really detailed and intricate book of written spells and potions with ingredients, like a grimorium, it would be really incredible!
It would be amazing if this book roamed from artist to artist and each one fill 1 page with story writen/drawn. The end result would be amazing and unique
Yes. This project reminds me of the giant art history books at the library that you often aren't allowed to check out (at least at my college). I think it would be neat to also collaborate on building a narrative, perhaps children's short stories or darkish nursey rhymes/cautionary tales, from which the artists could draw ;) some inspiration.
Yes, this book would probably fit some sort of group collab or public interaction - it seems way to big to fit a one-person project well. Like, a one-person project could probably be done but would it really unleash this book's true potential?
Great idea
Don't restrict it to one page each. But yes, good idea.
Martina: Awesome!
Hansi: Awesome.
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Book: THUMP!
Nori: [The ground! It’s shaking! Must save humans!]
Best meme(or so)😂
Nori is a true protective knight🥺
I dunno he's adorable^^
I know it would take a lot of time, but what if you made it into a fantastical spellbook or alchemist's journal? Complete with sketches of ingredients or drawings of spell circles surrounded by notes and observational paintings of magic, gems, finished potions - whatever!
They could even stich or glue samples of materials to the book, with maps detailing where to find each one of them
They could even do little side bits with drawings of real/fake plants used as ingredients with their properties
Wait wait.. combine this with the family-recipe cookbook idea, but illustrate every recipe like it's an alchemist's journal. So it's a recipe for meatloaf but there's like crazy wizard notes and sketches of onions and shit everywhere.
...now i want to make one of these myself.
YESS This would be epic!!!
And there could be map pages that show where ingredients are found
I love when the glove comes out like "Gonna need all 10 for this particular task"
A spell book this size would be super great for a scrapbook of all your adventures and collections. Kind of like what our famous wizards had. Beautiful drawings as well especially bc they could be so highly detailed and kept collectively all in one place.
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It would be very nice if Martina would make her incredible paintings in every single page and maybe write a story over the paintings.🥰
She could put in images of all her projects so far
Yesss! 😍
like picture with subtitles
I doubt any large blank surface lasts very long anywhere near her. Dont Worry :D
@@recoveringsoul755 YAS! Like a giant project journal!
Fun fact- paper quilling is a hobby that was born out of finding a use for all those paper edge bits that come from book marking. Paper quilling is also super pretty
For the trimming of book edges actual bookbinders use press/guillotine combo. The traditional (hand-operated) machine takes half a room of space, there is a huge flywheel which you turn to drop the blade down on the immobilized tome.
I’ve had an idea for awhile now about a “similarly gargantuan sized book” but to make it as a sort of family heirloom journal that gets passed down through the generations and family reunions where everyone can write in… Like just imagine having a family journal that size on a book stand that can chronicle personal histories of a family for however many generations that the size of those pages can last for!!!
Omg that would be so cool!
I could see you doing epic drawings in that book, magical places, mythical plants, maybe do some writting about the place or plants you do in them. Make it like a field journal for a wizard of your fantasy. Could be stuff that was already in books you love like the Potter series or just your own made up things. I want to see your own takes on mythical things myself but you can do whatever you feel like doing in it.
I agree
I love how you use the book press on top of the coffee table to make sure it feels included 😊
Book Press: "I'm helping."
Build a sturdy stand for it, display it on your table and use it for your blueprints/ or since you used art paper. Use it as an artbook
It would be really cool to see someone in the calligraphy community put some spells or potion making instructions into it!
OMG YES - with cute little curly, hard-to-read annotations and like corrections or side-notes of observations and stuff!!
Sooo another youtuber sends a paintings to various RUclipsrs each one doing an art piece to create a mural. When the piece is done its auctioned for charity.
How EPIC would it be if she did that for both calligraphy and RUclips. Like let one side be the written bits and than on the other side an image depiction of the ingredients or the final result of whatever it is. O.o idk how much it would auction for, buuuut whoever buys it for charity could get to add their own thing if any pages are left and if there is a TON of space remaining just pass it down.
Yes magical spells and recipes could be added, but also short stories and maybe poems as well :)
It would be a first that I have seen.
Okay this is probably my favourite project so far! You could fill it with paintings you do or make it like a compendium of all your projects over the years! That'd be epic!
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Yes!!
Imagine having this as a guest book at the entrance of your door! Or at a wedding where all the guests can write greetings and well-wishes to the couple!
There's enough room in that book you could include weddings, birthdays, funerals, and chronicle the entire family tree in detail for the next 7 generations.
@@BluestormsSong very true! Talk about starting an heirloom
@@BluestormsSong That actually sounds so interesting!
Only a fool would sign their name in such a book.
Someone would draw a penis anyway.
Wow, so my grandfather actually passed down three "massive chunkyboi" books from the 1930s (size A3, the books are collections of newspapers in more or less full form from 1930-1933)
It's amazing seeing how such a book is made. Mine are not in such a good condition as yours though. Mine were stitched on the side and only included "a cover" on the front and back, not on the side; that part is purely held together by threats (it's not in a bad state, it's just that they made the cover of the side purely by stitching).
A book of that prominence must have a dedicated stand for it. Beautiful work you guys!
Turn the book into a Nerdforge encyclopedia!! 😃 Put in stuff about your past projects, but do it in a way to make the book feel like a photo album i.e. make the book fun to scroll through ✨✨✨
Good idea. A giant 'scrap book' - I have seen some done in a very artful manner.
This is an awesome idea
Well played. Good job.
Ooh, you could paint QR codes on the pages to the corresponding videos...
I though the same, 1 page per project would be such an awesome archive. and please redesign your clock :-)
Really glad that anytime I start to think I'm crafting ridiculous things, Martina and Hansi come along to remind me I'm right in my lane.
I'm a newer subscriber and have spent a few days watching old posts. Your growth in your craft is amazing to witness. For me, it's your personality and ability to laugh at yourself and accept your mistakes, and move forward. I've lost my left eye so I can empathize with you on your finger, but you've inspired me to keep living and just figure it out as I go. NEVER change who you are, Martina. Love from America
I just love how Martina always complains about how hard its gonna be but then knocks it out of the Park. Amazing dedication and craftsmanship with some funky wave beats in the background.
Keep it up guys. You the best 💓
That's the kind of book that lives on a podium in the wizard's library and is either the index for the entire library or the family grimoire that just... never leaves it's podium. I love it so much.
I can definitely see it being like the grimoire of the founder of the library, kept on an ornate podium, along with the founders matching oversized feather pen, hat/ cloak & their staff as like some sacred wizarding artifacts. meanwhile the founders talking portrait just says the book was only that big because he lost a bet or something.
Your new sketch book is EPIC, Martina!
You could hand letter your own manuscript, make a family cookbook/potions book, write your life story or your family history.... Lots of options!
This should be the adventurer’s guild book of everything where parties add the creatures they encounter with illustrations, magic items they found, dungeons they explored and spells and potions they created. Throughout the book there could be different entries from different characters and you see the sorts of things that inspire them.
One could be a scatter brained fey witch who comes up with all sorts of creative potions though many are failures or have unintended consequences much to the horror of the alchemist who also contributes to the book.
The Warlock and The Paladin are having an argument throughout the book about their respective patrons and adding comments to the other’s entries. The Bard reveals they both secretly love the other but their viewpoints are getting in the way of that.
The wizard has added a list of their spells and some of their own arcane creations as he tries to educate the reader by adding annotations and comments to clarify things.
Ok I've been mulling this over for a full day now and I have an EPIC idea for the THICCBOI book. It definitely gives giant spellbook vibes so why not not lean into that and make it a Grimoire? STAY WITH ME .. I promise that's not the epic part.
So you give it the Grimoire aesthetic but instead of spells, potions, charms, and talismans you use it to document your most epic projects. Like including past ones. All your favorites projects and maybe ours too. 😆 But you document then spell/recipe style and list steps and materials and maybe include little margin notes or material scraps to add to the aesthetic. So it'd be like a Nerdforge how-to scrapbook that looks like a giant EPIC Grimoire. It'd be badass.
And then yes you need to make it an awesome podium to sit on at all times because a book that size really does need a good place to sit and be admired. A book throne if you will.
This is great! I hope she sees it
i love this ideaa!!! hopefully they see it, and they can make it into a series of all the how-to's on youtube and tiktok! c:
I fourth that idea.
You should paint the sides of your spell book like you’ve done before on other books. It would make it extra magical lol
I love it tho, it’s absolutely beautiful and the craftsmanship is amazing! 🤩
I was going to suggest the same thing. Wonderful idea to up the aura of it all.
@@davidbuffington9644 With gold!!
Omg yessss
You should use the book as a giant sketch book for your projects and just draw all the concept art on them! It could be like a giant history of all the cool stuff you’ve made.
man, i really just wanna see those pages filled with spells, research on magical creatures and plants etc. would be so cool! 🤩
I love love love the end result. 1. How much does it weigh? 2. What if you did some crazy huge drawing/painting challenge? Or 3. What if you did a detailed picture that is layered and carved into the whole text block, so that if you look at all the pages together it makes one awesome scene.
"This leatherbound book weighs over 20kg, nearly 50 pounds!" - from the description box. Heavy stuff!
LOVE seeing way more of Hansi being as quirky and adorable as Martina. Totes adorbs you two!
Right? I've followed for a couple years now and it's been so nice to see their comfortability and personality grow
We don't see Hansi on the channel nearly as much as Martina but every time he does show up I'm reminded just how well his energy compliments Martina's. There's a mutual chaotic vibe between them that works really well lol.
Imagine writing every single comebacks and swears you have ever heard of and can think of, then passing it down to future generations so that they can do the same
Best use for it out all I have seen.
What I love about you guys is that whenever you get the hankering to make something happen, you just do it! It takes time, a LOT of effort, and a whole lot of love, but you get such a beautiful piece in the end! And it never fails to amaze! That being said, you have a giant spellbook, you made a giant wizard's tower, soooo...wouldn't now be an okay time to come up with some spells and potions, concoctions, if you will? Maybe some maps or ingredients lists and the like? You could totally get into the whole calligraphy bit and make it all fancy, maybe even stain the pages a bit to make them look weathered and aged! Or, oooooooh, make up your own fantasy realm and make spells and potions for that place!
I just had an idea as Martina carried the finished book at 19:55 of her in costume, bringing this book out to a table with a group of adventurers (or their brainy members anyway) going through tomes for information on something, dragons for instance; Martina arrives at the table, drops the tome, wipes her brow, takes a deep breath...... "Oh, thank you, but we don't need that book anymore. We found what we needed."
Martina hefts the book with a scowl, wanders off to put it back in safe storage, grumbling. Hmmm, maybe Joe Manganiello or Wizards of the Coast will see this and add it to their next D&D project.
I know Joe is making a D&D documentary; but I recall him saying he wanted to make more D&D movies; a TV show with a recurring role for this super tome would be cool.
it would be awesome to fill the book with stories about the projects you guys make, but told as a fairy tale of the two best craftsmen in the land :). you guys make the most stunning projects!!!
omg yes i love this idea!
Loving all the ideas I've read so far. Too many to keep reading, but imagine this with all your family photos, aged up to look vintage, and laid out scrapbook style inside. What an amazing product to pass down through the generations. Hand made and full of personal photos.
You could totally do a year-long series where you paint/illustrate something new in the book every week . Though I understand that it would take a ton of time and effort.
Not gonna lie, each page in the spellbook seems big enough for an entire painting
If you wanted to make things even harder for yourself you could attempt to fill every page with paintings
painting wouldn't work very well with the paper she used. Plus I'm sure that'd be a creative drain
Very cool. Could this be the start of a giant youtube collab where the book is passed around to other artists to fill? Would be epic. If a bit costly in postage lol.
Ooh I adore that idea!!
You should build a grand easel for the book! One that can hold the book in any orientation so you can do your most epic paintings in the most epic book.
Two minutes in and it's like watching a fairy sized human make a book. This is great.
So freaking cool!
I think it would be perfect for a project journal. A massive collection of concept ideas, evolutions and final results. An artistic homage to Davinci's notebook.
YES!!!
I love this idea.
4:00 i literally thought for a second i watch GoodTimesWithScar , that music is everytime he makes superfast-build-mode so i do connect it with him XD
Great for writing family history. If only I was good at calligraphy! I'm going to print my family history book and then bind it like this with my family's emblem as the centre piece. I certainly have the content to fill out this book and more, but I can successfully make it like this is another matter. I haven't seen anybody done this yet, and this is what I've been looking for for years. Thanks
Now you need a spellbook pedestal for the book. As for what to put in the book, I would love to see you put your artwork in the book.
I love that we got more Hansi in this video! Hansi's personality is so fun! ^-^
The stuff you guys make is so cool, i could easily see this becoming a photo album for your past and future projects!!
Came back a year later, because I love the book videos. An awesome idea to use this for? Any conventions you have a booth on, or any collaborations with people, ask if they want to do something with one (or even two) pages of this, and use it kinda like a scrap book. Have some pages marked out for signatures and things. AND an even BETTER Idea...Have it passed around family and guests to your eventual wedding, and have people sign and draw in it, and use it as the guest book for your wedding. Or, even do ALL of the above, and have it be a family log, passed down, as well
Definitely think this should be turned into an actual giant spell book/ horticulture book. I'm also surprised you didn't stain the paper! (I mean, I know it's huge paper, but an ancient spell book should have nicely worn pages) ❤
It was new at one time...
it will age with time.
To look older that nice 💡 too !
Now you need a big podium for it so you can look like an epic wizard with your spell book
Lectures! WhAa
How about another sketchbook filling challenge? Where you fill all the pages with an illustration,
or maybe you can take pictures of your former projects and use this HUGE thing as a scrapbook of art memories!
Hope you had a good vacation! Looking forward to seeing your next Amazing project!
You should use it to make a retelling of all your projects : a double page for each, with drawing of the final result, diagrams and step by step explainations. You can make a video out of catching up to now, and keep adding to it as you forge create new things
Love the end result! >I would actually turn it into a kind of a collection of fantasy stuff, like dividing it into several parts (creatures, races -dwarfs elven...-, flora, architecture...) and pencil draw each one (1 per page) so it creates kind of a dictionnaire of a fantasy world (idk if you can even comprehend what I'm trying to say lmao) but that would be so cool, like the book with all the dragon types in How to train your dragon!
I like that the stamping in the lining looks imperfect, it makes the book look naturally weathered over time, the tome came out amazing as usual! Great job Martina & Hansi also i love the idea of martina sitting at her desk and one day deciding she needs to make a massive book almost the size of herself, just so she can THUMP on the table haha
As it is a wizard's tome, I imagine collecting spells, recipes, and musings from your favorite works of media would be a fun project! Basically making it an anthology of all those awesome mages and characters quirks in one massive collection
I've watched a few of your videos now and loved them. I thought surely, surely watching a video about someone making a huge book couldn't be that fun...
But it totally was! Awesome. Love it.
Martina looks like a wizard‘s apprentice who’s gettin the big heavy dusty tome from the highest shelf in the library 😊
I love this! Maybe you could fashion a big stand for it, and put pictures of your projects in there with dates so it becomes like one of those ancient record books?
I adore how you go above and beyond with everything you do. Instead of just making a book... you made a freaking BOOK haha
You should draw sketches of all the things you made, with descriptions of them. Like where the inspiration for them came from, the steps it took to create them, stuff like that.
That would be so cool
Honestly I don't even care what specifically Martina creates I just love her goofiness, honesty about the difficulties and frustrations of projects and positivity
I would love to see you make handmade paper with all the scraps from the floor! That being said, this tome is epic. Family stories and recipes would be my suggestion
You have been such an inspiration to me! You don't even know how you've changed my life I wanted to say thank you and really no one has to read further than this! But you have inspired me to try and strive to do art again, a year ago the tendon in my right thumb ruptured and I wasn't able to write let alone draw anything. I slowly retrained my hand to make readable letters and with persistence I have been able to do art again! It's not the best in the world but I'm so in love with my art and so happy that I can do anything! Thank you so much for the inspiration!
Martina, you're so crazy in art and I absolutely LOVE IT❤❤❤ Even more satisfying is that Hansi's got just the same chaotic vibe😃
well, can't blame Martina for caring about the ✨️aesthetic✨️
she really knows how to make things look cool
you should build a book stand like one always see when we talk of wizard laburatories. that the book could lay open on. that would be insane nice.
Every time I watch Nerdforge I get filled with motivation to create myself. Thank you!
Wow, that looks really amazing. I have a handmade monster like this as well but not with a leather cover (yet) but I want to redo the cover with leather. Just one tip from a bookbinder for your next book project with a round back: The front edge is supposed to have the same round shape as the back. It is shaped with one hand pulling the upper side to you and the thump pressing into the front edge and with a hammer you shape the back. After the shaping is done apply the gauze on the back and glue it again. ❤
Omg! I feel like you should put some form of documentation of all of your past projects (or maybe just your favorites) on the page of the book! Things like pictures, explanations, QR codes to the videos, etc! It would be cool! ❤❤❤
This could probably be the sketchbook you paint in for the next 20 years, and you'd still have space left over
Time to spend an endless amount of time decorating the inside of the book over the next year. Maybe spells descriptions in a fantasy language and the "Common" translation on the adjacent page? Maybe have it be a signature book for when y'all have people over, maybe spend time coffee/tea/burn weathering it to make it look old? Maybe it can be a big book of fairy tales that you paint illustrate onto(the pages look thick enough).
Loved the video! Big mage books are a superb aesthetic.
You both are so talented, I am just amazed when watching you. This book is beautiful, absolutely magnificent ! It will last for 100s of years ... Your masterpiece is a family treasure ! Maybe if you recorded everything pertinent to your family history .... if you haven't done so yet, research your 4 family ancestry lines ... maternal and paternal for each of you. Start the book off with beautiful calligraphy of your Family Trees. Be sure to leave lots of room at the bottom of each for additions. Several pages later, start recording everything you know about your ancestors, down to your parents and you two. It think this is a great way to begin this book. The rest of the book ... I have no ideas yet. But the beginning should be a beautiful, graphic, fully documented family history for each of you, as far back as you can go. Good luck ! Keep us posted on what you end up doing with this !!
Amazing Martina! For the next book you should choose a theme for the book and have subscribers (or those who want to participate) send in a page each with lore, illustrations or whatever & put It all together to make a book. That could be fun!
Yesss omggg that would be awesome
I have my page already planned. It's a plant from my home brew dnd campaign
Aww yesss! It's always an EVENT when a new Nerdforge video come out. I've been creating some leatherbooks myself and hope to make videos about them, and Nerdforge is a HUGE part of why I got into it, so I'm so glad to see another bookmaking video!
Expanding on the recipes ideas, I was thinking how some family books / records weren’t just one thing. They were a culmination of recipes, family stories, genealogical records, etc. With the size of the leaves, you could probably do one page per year or so, leaving some number of leaves at the front for a table of contents and other front material. That, my friend, will be quite a family tome and history.
It's amazing that you made more than one of these books. It looks so tedious and difficult to make and you have a great deal of patience. Awesome job!!!