Ascendance of a Bookworm

The failure of my first woodcut led me to the conclusion that woodcut might not be suitable for a picture book, but I can't give up here. I hold a reflection meeting with Lutz on my way home.

"Failure is the mother of success, and I just want to wash away the cause of failure and connect it to my next success."

"Well, you are. So, what was the cause of the failure that Mine had in mind?

Yeah, yeah, that's what Lutz tells me with a nod, and I think about the cause of failure. There were just three things that immediately occurred to me.

"First of all, I think the lower painting for carving was too complicated. Vilma's delicate paintings were not suitable for wood prints that had to be carved"

"Right. We either need to give up the woodcuts or have Vilma's paintings changed."

I can't even ask Vilma to put an illustration in every book, so I'm either looking for a method other than wood printing, or I'm asking Vilma to paint a simpler line.

But Vilma has never seen anything but a painting in the temple. I've only seen what's inside the temple. I don't think it's possible to ask you to change the picture in this situation either. At least not without an example where you can just say "please this way".

"There were other failures in my mirror letters, weren't there? I had to check better. You can prevent this if you pay attention, right? Check with others..."

"Um, if it is, why don't we just separate the letters from the picture boards from the beginning? If the letter fails, it won't even affect the picture, will it?

"Lutz, genius!

It was somehow an image with pictures and letters together because it was a picture book for kids like remembering the letters for the first time, but you could separate the pages, or you could separate the boards up and down.

"Later, that's how you carve. Failure, by the way, was remarkable."

Some of the letters were pushing through, the lines of the painting were popping up, and there were noticeable failures when I printed them.

Lutz swells his cheeks softly at my point.

"That's a bad thing I didn't have the tools to carve. It's not like your brothers have bad arms."

"You don't have the tools... Rutz's house is full of professionalism"

Rutz's house took a wide area of tools to use for work, and there must have been a variety of tools. As I remember Lutz's house, Lutz gently flaunts his shoulders.

"Well, it's a house that originally worked in architectural relationships, so there are a lot more big tools for processing trees than there are extra houses. But I don't have the tools to do fine work. I won't use it."

Sure, I don't need tools like Uncle Deed to work on the tools he normally uses or the tools he needs to do repairs in the house. Even my father has some tools for doing big things but he does fine things with a knife.

"That painting, it was too fine to carve with a knife."

"Huh? Was that carved with a knife?

I had to prepare and hand over the tools for carving like a sculpture knife when I asked for work. You carved me with a knife. I'd say you're good at it.

"Next time you ask me for a job carving, I'll give you the tools too. Will you tell your brothers I'm sorry and thank them?

"Oh, okay.... In the first place, why did you decide to make a scripture for children?

That's what Lutz tells me, and I think back to the process of changing what I make from a picture book for babies to a scripture for children.

"Because the painting Vilma could paint was basically a temple thing, is it?

"So if we're going to make it for babies, doesn't that mean it doesn't have to be the Bible?

"Well, you are"

I thought I had to leave the painting to Vilma because everyone says no to my painting, and because the painting that Vilma could draw was from a temple relationship, the story just became a children's scripture when it went with it.

... Is that it? If you think about it, isn't the Children's Bible going to be a picture book for babies?

I've noticed something terrible. Books for babies are slightly different from those for children. Don't leave me alone because I'm a child.

"All right, let's make it into a black and white picture book for the baby first. The Bible for Kids is Later"

"It's only paper and black ink, so whatever you think, it's only gonna be a black and white picture book, right?

"That's true, but it's a little different"

Now I want to get back to where I started and think about the picture books I want to give my baby. Remember child library theory and child service theory.

It is said that the vision of a newborn baby is only blurred. Vision is also closely related to brain development, and by looking at various objects every day, it develops with a little stimulation.

Around 3 to 4 months old, you will be able to identify a color as clear as red, and when you move the rags, your gaze will follow you properly.

At about 1 year old, he gets as much vision as an adult, but until then, he has blurred contours, and pale colors are difficult to identify.

For this reason, clear contrasts and easy-to-understand shapes become important in picture books given to babies under one year of age. The colors are easy to understand about white, black and red, and the shapes are easy to recognize crisp things like circles, triangles, and squares.

So it is said that picture books for babies from 0 to 2 years of age are used in simple lines and colorful primary colors, and that the words written are easy and preferred to be reframed over and over again.

I remembered the black and white picture books that just looked like they lined up shapes among the picture books for babies. If that's the case, I can draw it now.

"Lutz, I'll make a picture book at home tomorrow without going to the temple!

"Okay. After contacting the temple and taking a light look at the Mine Workshop, I'll go out with you too. It's dangerous not to watch when you make something, Mine."

Oh, man, I can't argue with Lutz, and I stray from the conversation.

"Well, because I want to buy thick paper, will you bring back 10 pieces of paper that are raised?

And the next day, Lutz came to us before the 3 bells rang.

"Wow, you're in great shape. If Aunt Aefa were here, she'd be pissed off."

On our table are scattered notepads and coal pencils, stone slabs and stone brushes that spell out the paper of the failures. If my mother were here, she would tell me, "Clean it up," but since my mother and Thuri are at work today, no one would be angry.

To think about what kind of objects to draw, I draw various shapes on the tablet. To some extent, when you have decided what to draw, roll the notebook and draw with a coal pencil. To see the impression of black and white, it's easier to understand a coal pencil on paper.

There was a tangent to draw the line straight inside my father's tool set, so I take it out and draw the line. After drawing triangles and squares, he tried to draw circles on paper, stopping perfectly. I want a compass.

"Lutz, do you have a 'compass' at home?

"... what kind of stuff?

"It's for drawing beautiful circles, like this, and this is how I use it..."

Lutz nodded lightly as he painted on the tablet or showed him how to circle using two fingers.

"Oh, a compass. It used to be at home, but now I don't think it was."

"Oh. Then you have no choice. I guess I'll have to substitute it with something else."

"Substitution?"

And I bring the thread that is in the house, and I put it on a coal pencil. I wish I had a push pin, but I didn't, so I threaded it on the nail I had been looking for from the tool box as well.

If you hold the nail head with your left finger so that the thread pins and moves the coal pencil, you can draw a circle once. If the center doesn't shift, I'll be fine.

"Oh, wow."

Beautiful circles, etc. don't usually need to be drawn, and people who need them at work use compasses. For that reason, was this the first time I had seen such a drawing, and Lutz raised his admiration?

Because I am rarely praised, I have become a bit good at drawing various circles, but the smaller circles are difficult to draw. Trying to draw a lot of shapes like this makes me want something called a template rule or stencil rule.

"Lutz, don't you sell 'template rules' or 'stencil rules'?

"What is it, that?

"... this kind of thing. It's a thin metal or 'plastic' with holes of all sizes of shapes like this..."

You can just draw a frame, or you can fill it. Very useful when drawing lots of the same pattern. If the compass is for sale, there may be stencil rules as well.

Draw on the tablet and explain, but Lutz just tilted his neck. Apparently I've never seen it.

"How do you use it?

"Eh, like this, you use it to draw shapes the size you like, along the border of a hole"

"... Can't you make it out of thick paper?

"Wow! Lutz, genius!

Use a piece of thick paper to make a picture book and start making stencil rules. Shapes such as circles and triangles were drawn in different sizes, one by one. Beautifully through this, the stencil rule is complete.

And I parted with Lutz, and drew the groom and the shapes, but when I was about to cut through, I discovered the great things. I don't have the tools.

"Such finesse, a knife can't cut it!

We sigh lightly compared to the thick paper and the knife we have. If it's a big thing, I can cut it. I can handle a straight line. But a smaller circle can't help it.

"If you don't get the tools you need, you're going to be the two dancers of wood prints. Let's go to the blacksmith first and ask Johann to make a 'design cutter'."

"What is it, that?

"It's a small, thin blade that I can use."

I'd rather go dressed properly than order a job. Me and Lutz changed into apprenticeship clothes and headed to the blacksmith workshop for the two of us with a guild card and a carefully drawn Follin paper purchase order.

Craftsman Street is on the south side of the city, so the blacksmith workshop is relatively close to ours.

"Hello"

"Oh, there you are."

Looks like I've been dealing with a customer before, and there are some wood plaques at the table just in, and my parents, sitting in a chair, touch my mustache, and they look at me with a giddy eye.

He seemed to remember my face when I ordered an iron pen before, and my parents looked at me and looked lightly.

"Hmm? Aren't you the lady in the meantime? You ordering again?

"That's right. Johann, are you there?

"Oh, I'll call you, just sit here and wait"

Holding the plaque on top of each other, the parent gently enters the back working room, sounding out loud.

"Hey, Johann! Guests!"

After a sound sounded like a dull belly, he jumped out of the back in a panicked manner by a boy who bound his orange habit hair behind him.

"Yes!... Ah, in the meantime, the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce. Hello."

"Hi, I have an order for you, okay?

"Oh, go ahead."

Johann prepares the wooden plaque immediately. So I gave him a purchase order for the Follin paper, and I turned around and turned back.

"I want you to make a 'design cutter' this time. Look at this."

After touching the paper uncommonly, Johann glanced through the diagram I had drawn, his eyes seemingly slightly narrowed.

"I often take orders for large blades, but I wouldn't be the first to order so thin, thin, and small blades. What the hell do you use it for? You can't cut anything with a little blade like this."

"I'm going to cut this paper. It's not parchment, it's vegetable paper, but if the blade isn't small enough to cut through a small circle, I'm in trouble."

"Huh.... this paper? I've never touched a vegetable paper before."

Johan does not pick the paper at his fingertips and tries to roll it on the back surface several times or swing it in front of him to see how it feels.

After making me like it for a while, I pointed to the diagram behind the purchase order. Johann asks questions in great detail, so this time he wrote down the size and purpose in detail on the purchase order.

"So, the handles part is fine with the tree, but I'm glad you're doing this so you can replace the blade. If the part of the hole in the blade matches the part of this handlebar that fits perfectly, I'd like to ask Johann, who specializes in fine work because it's dangerous."

Looking at the diagram, Johann asks me a few questions about replacing the blade. Answering it, Johann's eyes began to burn challengingly when I gave him detailed instructions. Apparently, he set his artisan soul on fire.

"... heh. Interesting. It's good that you can easily replace this blade"

"Then, put a lid on it or a special case with me, please. It's sharp, dangerous, thin and small, so it's easy to chip or break."

"Looks like you should have some blades ready to replace it too"

After various meetings, the parent is paid an advance by guild card.

"Once finished, can you deliver it to the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce?

Sometimes you can't have cash ready for delivery to us right away, but the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce can tell you, if you pay Benno first, you can get Johan to pay properly when you receive it. And I also appreciate the fact that I don't have to carry cash with me because I can interact with them on my guild card.

"Lutz, Mine!

We were summoned to the gatekeeper in front of the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce on the way home from the temple, about ten days after ordering the design cutters. I have luggage, so I hear Marc said to stop by.

Once inside, Marc hands me an elongated box.

"Johann from the blacksmith workshop took it this afternoon. Johann was very excited about the interesting work."

When I got back to us, I was a design cutter that Johann quickly made, and I tried to make a stencil rule. I don't have a dedicated underlay mat, so I tried cutting it off not to put too much effort on the plate, but this looks like the blade hurts fast.

However, thanks to a sharp and easy-to-use cutter, the stencil rule itself could easily be made. Place a stencil rule made of thick paper on top of the notepad and fill the hole with a coal pencil and it is properly black circled.

"... if the shape of the picture book also uses thick paper and you ink it like a stencil, don't you have to bother carving the plate? Wow, am I a genius?

I design black and white picture books using rules to do what I come up with.

I arranged two large triangles up and down, and drew as much fun as I could think of wooden shapes of a thigh with a rectangle stuck to the lower triangle, round eyes, semi-circular mouth and triangular nose on the contour of the circle, and flower-like shapes I did when making hexagons out of string compasses.

And then he cut it out with a cutter and moulded it during the night the cutter arrived, as the family told him to "finish it already".

"Lutz, look! I got it!

The next day I will show Rutz the mould I finished in a good mood. One figure at a time is about the size of an A5, the size of the original thick paper cut in half.

Seeing the thick paper, which had ten sheets in all, Lutz frowned as if he was in a lot of trouble, and looked at me in suspicion.

"Hey, Mine. What is this painting... is the baby really happy with it?

"I'll be delighted! Black and white have a clear 'contrast', and because it's a combination of shapes, it doesn't matter if you're a good painter, does it?

In my explanation Lutz seemed to doubt even more his doubtful eyes for some reason.

"Well, if Mine's convinced, that's fine."

Suspicious Lutz starts making pictures in the workshop this afternoon. This time I will use brushes to apply black ink according to the stencil procedure. The fine line is that the paper gets better with the brush, so it was wrapped with a blush cloth around the tip of a stick as thin as a cotton swab, and I had it inked by pressing it gently with a ton.

"Wow, wow! Done!"

"... Dear Mine, what is this?

"What is it used for?

The kids stopped by and peeked around. I answer with a full smile as I ask the gray cleric to line up on the shelf to dry.

"It's a picture book for babies."

"... baby?

"Hmm?

All the reactions back home are subtle. There is air around me that leans my neck, misses my gaze, or says I don't know why, but I shouldn't say anything extra. After all, they don't seem to understand. I wish the world would catch up to me soon.

Although it is lonely not to have an understandable person, the pages of black and white picture books could be done. Later, I want to spread and stand like a screen, so I have to stick the finished paper on the board, drill a hole in the board and connect it with a string.

... I have to make glue for the paste.