 hey guys welcome back to the average so today i'm gonna do a little project i want to do a comic of this book hitchhikers guide to the galaxy which is one of my favorite series it's a very comical sci-fi series and you've probably heard of it and it's hilarious and there's also a there's also a finish there's also a radio and there's also a radio play about it and i don't know if that's on youtube but if it is i will definitely link that down below because it's great and especially if you like to listen to things whilst you draw whatever it's really funny and really well done that's it what i'm gonna do is i've picked like a little scene that i liked from random i just i skimmed red like a lot of different parts and then i came to one that i quite liked what i wanted to do was draw a comic out of the page using the dialogue the scenes and creating the characters like drawing them out because i thought it'd be just like a fun thing to do so i did some quick scene setups and character designs of ather and his friend but only ather appears in the scene so i think it's only after that i'm gonna focus on and i'm just doing some fun nailing now so that's you all caught up in the process that i'm on and let's see what happens hopefully i come up with something quite fun so the story of hitchhiking sky to the galaxy is about this guy called ather dent who's a rather normal chap and one day he discovers that his house is going to be pulled those down due to some random rule the council made up like 20 years ago because they want to build a highway across his land basically he didn't realize this in time because of some like stipulations and rules and it even though it doesn't sound funny it's very funny because it's kind of like a reflection of typical form process that you have to go through and it's very sarcastic and dry humor in the book and i really really like this style of writing it's very funny and it's just very fantastical too it keeps you on the edge and the sci-fi elements are great and it's just a funny story so i really highly recommend it so i wanted to start by explaining what happens on the page i guess because so you guys can understand what's happening obviously and this is a scene where ather dent has just been to the pub with his friend and he comes home to see that even though the builders said they wouldn't tear down his house they have started to bring the diggers and things and they promised him they wouldn't and he's come back from the pub and realized that they have started work but his friend that's with him who doesn't actually appear on this page but he is mentioned in the page as like following him stuff but i haven't drawn him because it was only one point where it's like oh he's following him and that was like one sentence so i don't know and yeah so he's shouting at the builders like ranting and raving how he's gonna beat them up or whatever and it's i mean i'm doing it in injustice because you have to read the text it's quite funny he's you know swearing at them whatever and doesn't realize that they've all started running away because massive spaceships have appeared in the sky so it's scared everyone away except for ather who hasn't realized because he's consumed in his rage and it's very funny and then he falls over like he trips and he sees it and he's suddenly like forgotten all about his house he's like what the hell is that and it's really funny and i think i've just said it's really funny many several times so good for me good words used right i've started out by thumb nailing and drinking lots of coffee because when you're thumb nailing and trying to put visuals down on paper that appear in your head then you need a lot of concentration think and be intelligent for a little while which is very difficult for me okay guys i'm gonna be honest so i've thumb nailed and sketched out all the images and i started to go in with the micron pen which i recently bought from london i did do a mini haul and i've got some pens from japan that chris parents bought back as well which i did a mini haul so let me know if you're interested in seeing that because i don't know if it was that interesting but maybe somebody likes it so i might do it and yeah so i got these micron pens and i wanted to try them out watercolor so i wanted to do a big comic page thing which was really really done with me because this took two days two days guys and honestly i wasn't really that happy with the results which i will explain as i go through but you can see that i'm just inking out all the page as i go and i did these character designs of ather which i really liked in my sketchbook but i think they kind of lost something when i penciled them out i think when you're doing sketches in your sketchbook it kind of you know when you translate it then to the final project it sort of loses some momentum and line quality and i really like this kind of line quality that's really loose and that style i've been reading a lot of comics that have a really loose line quality and it seems as if the the artist has done it in like 10 minutes which probably isn't true but it seems that way and it just seems effortless and of course i just go the opposite way and do like really solid shapes and things and it isn't loose at all and yeah but i don't know it's okay it's just i like his design i think it's sort of how i picture him i really wish i hadn't put him in a t-shirt and jeans because i think that just is very basic bitch of him even though he is kind of an average guy i suppose that's the whole point because he's supposed to be very average his character so meh could have gone with something else but yeah didn't mind his character design i guess he looks a little bit more round than i wanted is that is that something that we talk about like round face is that okay i don't know um overall i'm pretty pleased with the page because to come up with something sort of out of thin air just because you have the writing there doesn't mean it's quite easy to lay it down and lay it out and stuff and i wanted to do it so it had a lot of visual interest and i was hoping that you could follow the movements of the character and sort of see the energy that he has within himself within the story that i mean the writing style is very full of life energy humor so i kind of wanted to reflect that in the comic and i hope that i sort of achieved that i think some bits are a bit um more rigid than others and some i like some panels better than others for instance the one with the spaceships in it i'm not i'm not a huge fan of that and i think it's because i know that i rushed it and even when i was looking at it i was like oh i just want to do it because i think when you be working on something for so long and you're not really liking the way it's going you kind of rush things but well i do anyway i don't know if you guys do that if you're like meh i'm not liking this you kind of rushed it to get rid of it but it wasn't it didn't turn up awful awful but i think i could have made more of the spaceships and i don't know i think i was thinking it more from alpha's point of view where he's not really seeing it so i kind of left them out of the panel slightly instead of making them the main focus i wanted alpha to be sort of the main focus and then the people running away and then the spaceships you see them though you kind of you you have that understanding that alpha's not seeing it i don't know if it i don't know if it translates like that but i hope it does yeah using watercolors as well i thought oh do you use watercolors it'll be a quick thing to do it wasn't quick at all i realized that i've basically done nine illustrations on a page which i know is comics that's comics i'm aware i've done comics but it is just i could have simplified it a little bit more instead of doing this sort of painting um watercolor paint style i don't know i think if i had more time as well because i'm pretty busy at the moment so i had a limited time to work on this so if i put something down i was like okay that has to be it but if i had more time to work on it if it was an actual comic that i was going to work on and create then i would give a lot more time to um preliminary work which of course is like character design layout so i'm nailing but i did all of that quite quickly and then i spent a long time covering those mistakes up as i went if that makes sense so if my advice to you guys is don't skimp on the preliminary work like do character design study the backgrounds you want to do do different layouts study form and expression and um line of action of your character get that down to a t and then the rest of the work is fun and it's easy and it flows you've got to put the hard work in first guys there's something that i have learned many a time but didn't put into practice this time again so i think the hardest part of this task was just visualizing everything because you think it's easy you think you can see it in your head what it is and then you go to translate that to paper and it's like everything just evaporates and you can't see what was there before i don't know if you guys have ever had that feeling i've had used to have that feeling often when i would want to draw something and i would sit down to draw and i'd be like i know what i want to draw and it would just evaporate and you just end up with this like horrible drawing um just me okay never mind yeah it was quite fun to use the paints i realized i bought some copmans i bought some copmans uh windsor and newton like a blue and a purple in the uk when i was there and i really thought they were much smoother and more pigmented than my other windsor and newton palette kind of thing because it just went on thicker and i know you can make you can create your own thickness with watercolors but it was just more pigmented is what i'm trying to say and i want to get more copman basically another thing i noticed was that this paper that i was using is kind of my cheap watercolor paper and i regret using that but it wasn't like the watercolors weren't blending very nicely and they weren't making all these weird textures in places that i didn't really want textures sometimes i really like textures like for instance in the grass on the bottom right is quite nice but then in the sky i don't know maybe it's just a personal thing at the moment and i think one of my biggest regrets i know that this has been very negative but i also think oh no i've done this and it was hard work and i've accomplished things and i think when you have something that turns out as something that you're not pleased with it's always good to reflect on it because you learn from the mistakes and then it's not time wasted so mistake number 568 i used really primary color kind of spectrum or red yellow blue anyway um colors and i think i don't know why because i never in my life use that kind of color palette i don't like that color palette i like blues and purples and stuff and i thought i could i could create like dark shadows and things and make it more visually interesting but it didn't really happen i think it was just very much oh he has red use red he is blue he's blue and you know when people use the color straight from the tray and they don't mix their own colors i think that's really well i don't know why it's bad i mean i think i know in my head why it's bad but i can't put it into words why that's bad but i was always told never take a color straight out of a palette and use it you should always mix it and you know make different colors so it doesn't look like you've just done that i don't know why that's so bad i guess this is a prime example of why it's bad because it doesn't the colors don't look right to me and i can't figure out why and i think that's why oh guys i should be a lecturer right so good at speaking i apologize yeah so i did a lot of watercolors i did a lot of thumbnails i did a lot of work basically in a short amount of time and i hope that you guys like this um anyway find it quite interesting even though the result is something that i'm not super happy with i'm not ashamed of it though because you know what it's a finished comic page and that's hard to do and i totally went out of my comfort zone with doing male characters and spaceships and backgrounds and trying to do a comic in one day from writing to final thing i guess final thing because it is a final piece but it's not something i'll ever revisit or sell or anything like that but yeah and i hope that you guys like it um or found the process interesting to watch anyway because i found it quite interesting to do that's the final image basically is this and i hope that you guys like it so hopefully it will inspire you guys to take a look at the books maybe your favorite books and you can create something from them that you wouldn't have done before maybe i don't know helping to inspire i hope um thanks for watching guys please like and subscribe for more and i will see you next time bye