Endsheet Patterns - Physical Prints Coming Soon

Double post today! I wanted to keep this a little separate other art stuff. I'm still playing with getting all my comics print ready at the larger, laserjet size! This means I'm using InDesign more than I ever have in my whole life. 😔Not necessarily a good thing.

Since this printer is way more efficient and faster than my inkjet I'll be able to more easily put together comics with more pages, so I've been working on creating a tiling endsheet pattern for each book. 

This is partially because it is fun and cute and looks nice, but also because I didn't like how you could sometimes see the dark cover through the first page of the comic on the inkjet prints.

For most of these I won't treat them as a true endsheet, which becomes a two pages spread which you can see in Fitting for a Lady. 

Adding more pages to a book can cause some problems but for most of these it has helped rather than hurt and I just have to make sure that my page spreads stay the same.
When you print a book you have to keep pages in multiples of four, because once you fold a piece of paper in half it goes from being two pages to four pages, separated by a crease.

I'm printing these on ledger sized paper 11"x17" and folding, trimming them down to 9"x6", 9"x6.5" or 6.5"x6.5" as the case may be. Why don't I keep my comics a standard size you ask? Well I guess at some point I messed up my template and started drawing on narrower pages. 

Weirdly, printing larger also makes having more pages feel better. When you have too many pages in in a small book it kinda just feels like a springy bundle that won't stay closed, but at this scale the books like to lay flat even with more sheets.

I know many of you are not here for the process of book-making, but if this is of interest to anyone I can share more information as I go.

📖Winton