 Hello, welcome back to the average. Yes, it's that time again. It's paint over book time Don't give me any grief can't be bothered with you Just move on if you don't like people painting on books, then don't click the video It's as simple as that and moving on to the people who are actually here because they like fun and joy and happiness in their life We know that I paint over books and that have movie covers because I just don't like movie covers And this is pretty sure obviously, you know, it's a show on Netflix very very popular. I really love the show I think it's really good. I think it's really well written. The books are Quite good, you know possible enjoyable nothing special I would say which is like, you know Kind of suggesting that the the show is better than the books and I'm not saying that but I am a bit First of all, I never do this But I want to take you guys through my ideation process of the book because I feel like I never do that I just paint on the books and you guys are like, what where did she get that idea from just want to do some sketches In my little sketchbook here And I do have like a basic idea of what I want to do because in the book stuff happens and I want to emulate Where's my color pencil because I feel like you guys can see that better when I draw without in the book stuff Happens and I feel like I want to emulate that a bit But I also want to leave it, you know a bit generic as they kind of done here. You can see that they play the What's it called mallet game? Don't remember. Yeah, so they play that game and So I want to include that a bit because they've done it on the cover But I really like the idea of doing like a motif. Is that the correct word motif? I don't know. You'll you'll probably tell me in the comments But in the beginning she has like a little corgi dog And he kind of runs away and it's a whole like little Tableau within the book of like them both chasing the little dog and being like, oh my god You're the worst because you let this dog run away and Then the sister who he's courting falls into the river and it's like, oh no You've done this and I'm like, what is not helpful my idea is to have sort of like stuff that happens in the book kind of portrayed along the outside Anyway tea around here as if it's spilling as well because I think there is some tea spill in the book I can't remember. There's a lot of clumsy moments in the book But I do appreciate and then we'll just do like flowers and stuff in between and then in the middle I really want to have like the two characters that they've done here But I really want to like bring the story a little bit in because here they're just kind of standing Looking at the camera. I mean Kate is kind of like, you know Got a little bit of a smarmy action a little like smarmy pose, which is kind of cool Like she's a bit cocky But he just looks weird. I feel like this pose they've chosen is just really strange to me Muchy, please be oh it don't fight We're talking about books. You can't fight. Yeah, his pose just looks really strange to me I don't know about you guys. I just feel like the angles are really odd Like if he was just stood straight I don't know So I want to bring the story in a little bit where they're just kind of like looking at each other but angrily But you can feel the tension. Do you know what I mean? Like I want a little bit of tension action Like this is kind of my idea. Anyway, I don't know if you guys have seen the show or read the books Um, but I won't spoil too much but you find this out in like the beginning It's basically his father dies because he's allergic to bees and a bee stings him But then it's used kind of in like a romantic way Not spoiling anything, but it is like the bee thing is used Um, so we want to show some bees. So I want to do the dog here. Um, I'm not very good at drawing dogs So you can probably see but We've got to practice these things, right? Um, also there's loads of space here. So I want to have like funda somehow But I don't know whether to like include it in this bit because funda is also like a key Because she's scared of thunderstorms, right? Hmm, okay, I think we've got enough to get started I'm gonna get started on Setting up this book paint over. So I've set up my book. He's golden Uh tape there and I just put paper in between and then stick down this cover onto the paper So it just like kind of stays still and then I have the tape so I don't like go over the The side because I don't like to paint the spine Um, because I think if it would just like fall off But yeah, so I'm going to be using my little gouache palette that I made First of all the worst bit of the whole thing I'm going to be Scraping off any of the shininess because we can't paint very well on top of it. So I'll be using just this like file um To just scrape down areas of shininess because Yeah, we need to paint on it and then I'll feel to see if the shininess is gone Because if it's not gone, then we'll have issue Okay, that should be fine. That should be enough Scrapeage. It's always so painful. But yeah, let's go started I think I want it to be like This big the dog here. Goodbye Netflix logo on a book And we're back. It's actually been a week Uh, I left this project because I was like I can't be bothered Do you ever have days like that? I just I just was not feeling it And I really didn't want a half ass like the process of painting on a book So um, I decided to get some modeling paste. I'm just gonna try a new Technique for this one. Also, sorry about my nails. I tried to paint them and then like they all smudged So I I've been picking them up. Don't look at them. I've got some uh, uh like modeling paste I guess it's kind of like modge podge. I don't know. Oh my god. Why won't it open now? What? It was just open Uh, yeah, so I'm gonna cover this with a thin layer of this With a thin layer of this just like a little layer. I'm gonna get my little spoon Small spoon, you know what I mean Just smooth it out. Just smooth it out. I think this will be better in the long run. Okay So I'm going with we'll see I guess we'll see don't skip to the end. That's rude You better watch this. Huh? You better watch this With a thin layer of this Okay, so I feel like that's gonna give us some nice texture bet you didn't see that you're gonna see What that didn't make any sense bet you didn't realize that you were gonna see a new technique for me today Did you know exciting stuff, huh? So we have a bit of a situation Um, it looks good. I like The way it looks but there was a hair here whilst it was drying And I was like, I'm just gonna take that. I'm just gonna take that out and then like smooth it down again No, it uh Went weird and then I had to put more on top and then I had to put more on top and then I had to push it around And now we have this big lump that like won't dry. It's kind of like I don't know weird You can tell underneath it's kind of still a bit wet. So hope to hope for what to do. I think I'm just gonna push it down and see What happens because uh, please try I'm gonna like roller this bit and see if it just like smashes out sounds disgusting See if it smashes out the excess But okay, let's just smush it. Yeah, see look at the excess there Let's just smush it onto this paper Oh, it's like a spot Oh, that's so right Nice Welcome to the book cover paint over guys, but you didn't think you were gonna see this, did you? This is a good idea for those like people that do like those videos where they Mush like mochis. I don't know if you've seen that or if you know what I'm talking about until probably not Let's push this paper down. This is a situation It is a situation, but we'll get over it. We can push through Okay, let's just smush it one more time and just get the excess off And then I'll go in with a hair dryer and dry it more. I was way too much like what's wrong with me I was like, I need all this paste on here. You know, there's like slapstick comedies that um Things just keep getting worse and worse and it it's like really infuriating to watch Yeah, you probably know what I mean. It's off. Let's smush it one more time It's kind of satisfying to be honest But I've got like a really weird Texture Let's just get all the excess Begone excess Okay, I feel like I'm finally ready to start painting even though I'm not sure about this lump. We'll see how we do because you know like painting on books is Surprisingly difficult. You'd think it'd be the same as just painting on top of like the sketchbook Or whatever, but it isn't it's super difficult and hope that's appreciated Because sometimes people are just like what the have you done here and I always get nervous because I want it to be good But you know, I just wanted to paint these guys in the first obviously the main thing the main thing Yeah, so I think the first part of this Painting process is where's my white there is It's definitely just going to be me. Um blocking out shapes and then hoping and praying that it's going to turn out well Oh, no Just realized that in the in the book This is like a like a tough area to cover. We're going to go for it guys in the book She's white and then in the series. She is obviously from India Which I think is such like it's adds so much to the story because she's like, I'm going back to India Actually, I don't want to be around you and he's like, it's not far enough impossible, but I am leaving for India You know that when he does that and it was like, oof Oof, I think I think the lady duff protests too much So I'm going to make her Indian because he ain't about whitewashing around here Even though in the book. She is an Indian. I don't care. I think it adds much more Interest to the story like seriously. It's so much more interesting than her just being English, I don't know. We've already got English characters. So I really like that So I'm gonna make her Indian and uh, we're gonna stick with that because I'm not gonna I'm not about to in this day and age Paint over a woman of color and then make her white. Okay So we're not arguing it move on if anyone's here to argue that get out But yeah, okay. That was a lovely off-topic rant. But yeah, I like the book. It's okay. I I feel like I feel like the uh, the show is so much better. It just adds so much like Depth to the characters and yeah, the book is okay. I liked it. It was It's like a throwaway Quick book. I don't know if they get better because people rave about these books and I'm like, but are they that good? Are they though? Because I wasn't a huge fan of the first one. I thought it was okay And then this one was better definitely better But I definitely yeah Weird to say this the show is better than the books Not that's kind of a rare thing For people to say right, um, but it's true for me in this case It kind of changes the whole like Story a bit of how they actually get together and I was like that's like a little bit lame Because you know like how the bee I'm going to just say it because you've probably seen the show if you're watching this If you haven't Stop this video and go watch the show because it's really good or keep watching if you don't care In the show she gets stung by a bee and it obviously is traumatizing with him because his father gets killed by a bee Sting because he's obviously allergic, right? And um, it's a very like cool moment because they're like you see his care for her and In the book it happens as well and you see his care for her obviously But then he's like now I have to marry you because everyone saw that And it's like what that's lame And it's like yeah gonna marry you now done and it's like oh Whereas in the show it's kind of more of a build-up, right? It's more like guess what I'm gonna marry your sister like In the book she doesn't even the sister is not even that like big of a storyline It's more like he like he he thinks he's gonna marry her and that's it But like in the show they go full-on wedding action So it's very different And I think that's a bit hard the harsher thing in the show is a bit like would you go that far that somebody who's walking Down the aisle with your sister would you go that far? I don't know you would but hey It's all good drama. I love a bit of drama. Yeah blocking out shapes blocking out shapes We can do this We can do this. I'm talking to you as well. We can do this together. Okay. I'm really regretting adding a dog to my sketch Go along Esther a dog. It's hard to draw, right? I think what I'm gonna do is make this background really like dark blue To emphasize them There were mobients in the book that I really liked there's a bit where she gets like stuck in the drawing room Because she's trying to avoid him. She's like at a party at his house and she's like oh my god I'm gonna slip away so he can't like find me and then she hides under the desk and then He sees her but he's with someone else in the room And then he's like he like steps on her hand. Yeah, just remembering this I was like I like that bit and now I'm remembering it He like steps on her hand and then she like bites his leg and stuff and it's like okay calm down guys She falls in love with the guy that kicks her so you know Spings him round abouts I guess those are my thoughts on the book and uh, it's okay. It's a good It's a free star out of five star for me. It wasn't memorable. I guess it wasn't like anything Wow, I didn't really think the characters were that fleshed out as they are in the show I feel like I should have made this circle a bit Bigger, but I don't care because I'm just going with it Good luck to me drawing this dog on a painting this dog even. Good luck to me. Um, by the way, um Adding that Modeling what is it called modeling paste mod podge stuff? It's modeling paste. It's not mod podge. Um, there is a difference actually really helped so If you guys I'll link this one down below, but I'm sure that you can find like lots of different modeling pastes Wherever you may be and uh, yeah, I think it's like Actually really helped being able to paint a little bit easier more easily. Where are you going kubo? Can I help you? Can I help you? Please can you move on without? Ah, ah, no, no, thank you Just keep it moving. Keep it moving. Thank you very much It wasn't too bad. It could have been Quite traumatic for me. Oh my god, he nearly fell off the desk. Can you keep moving? I don't know why they have to go so slow. They're like actually maybe I might destroy everything on this desk Yeah, definitely modeling paste way to go because this has been easier to actually get like Some nice forms I always feel like I struggle with that with on books. So Hopefully this will make all the difference except when I draw the dog, which will look like a turd with legs And I I'm honestly just warning you now about that So it's not my fault if you keep watching and you get annoyed that I drew a turd with legs drew painted whatever I always say drew and then I'm like, no, I mean painted because once somebody in the comments want to like Oh my god, I think you mean painted not raw And I was like, oh, you're right. And now like whenever I say that I'm like, oh no I better I better correct myself for that person's gonna come back From their dungeon crawling out I don't have these shoes. I'm okay, please I'm okay guys He's kind of be like super like not angry, but like, you know, like a little bit like I hate you, but I don't kind of face Okay, fine fine The time has come To try and paint this dog Why have I done this? What's wrong with me? It's gonna come out. It's gonna look bad when uh, I'm trying to do the details. That's for sure Uh, it's already looking horrible. It's looking like a blob. Oh, well what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna Look out the shapes of the way I'm gonna do that. And then what I'm gonna do is Paint around it. You see I just feel a great ideas Okay, so we have the basis of the dog, right? I'm gonna cheat a little bit and use like a bit of an ink brush to just Define like the darker areas because I think Just gonna work a bit more. I don't know why I said cheat like it's not cheating is it it's mixed media I'm like it's cheating. It doesn't make sense So I'm just gonna define areas with a perm basically But yeah, the dog is not turned out. Um too bad as I thought I was like dreading Painting him, but it's not you know, it's not awful, right? So there we go. It's hard to draw Okay, I think he's kind of cute. Um, we're gonna move on because we're running out of time Uh, well, we're not really running out of time, but yeah, I'm gonna use the pen To define areas because it's just easier I'm painting everything This is just a brush pen by the way. I think I've got it in Japan, but it's a kuritaki um A brush pen You can get them on amazon. I think it's pentail kuritaki. Make sure Okay I think it's looking kind of good. I wanted the lead to kind of go around here From my sketch. So we're gonna use this massive brush that people use for like lettering hand lettering And I'm just gonna go You know, I'm just gonna do it. It's not awful, but it's not the best. Maybe I should have used a different Brush I was very confident in my lettering Brush skills there. Okay That's fine It's fine. We're blocking shapes out And I wanted to do some like foliage As well because they are like often in gardens and stuff again with the blocking out the shapes. We're just Having fun making some random leaves and it's gonna be good. It's gonna be good guys. I feel I'm feeling it You know, okay, I want to do like a bit. I want to make them big even though it doesn't really make sense But that's what I want to do. Okay big old bees hanging about Maybe just the one because I'm like, where else is this bee gonna go? Maybe over here like flying Maybe like they're going off into the distance And you can't even see like this one because it's gonna go behind his head, which is you know Not brilliant planning by me But I don't care too much. I don't care too much the bee bee Bee bee. Why do I keep saying bee? I don't know Couldn't know couldn't care. That's my attitude today if you noticed. Don't care. Don't care to make questions, does it? I really need to define these Cup cups of tea and stuff as well, but we'll get to it Chris said that the it looks like the plate's coming out the dog's butt, but it's a bit late for me now. So I've already done it now and he's right, but Sometimes you win some sometimes you don't win anything you win nothing That sounds about right doesn't it? I feel like it needs some sort of color around it. I don't know Kind of like the light green thing, but maybe if I just add more definition around it and also here is like Maybe if I tried to make it light again, it will work better Because it just looks too orange over here I think everything just needs a little bit of definition now I think what I want to do as well is literally do that lightning like I said So maybe if we do like a lightning here And then the light is kind of bouncing off them that would be kind of nice if We can do it. So let's just do like right Some sort of lightning going on and then it's going to be like sort of Lighting them up Yeah, there's some sort of like glow behind them Yeah, I think it kind of works. I just need to render it a little bit better. So Like obviously it wouldn't just be Why it would just kind of blend out a little bit as well That would also mean that there's like greatest shadows behind them. So without losing detail. I want to add Some darker shadows. So let's just Add a little bit of this black pen because I don't like to do shadows in black, but I feel like this black is definitely um Creating more contrast. So I'm just going to use like a little bit of a damn bee and he's draw the bee as well Oh round his nose is like looking a bit weird a bit too bright there Let's blend it out guys. Just blend it out blend it out evened out blend it out And this sounds like an excuse, but I do like the roughness of like the foliage and stuff around Where it's not very detailed whereas they're quite detailed and the dog is quite detailed um, maybe I'll go around just with the pen just to like Add detail to some of the bits, but I need to wait for it to dry a little bit more otherwise I'm just gonna make a black mess of like colors. So no I've realized what's this What's this? I've realized what this needs now And it's like a gold border as if like this is a frame But I don't have a gold So I'm just gonna do it like an orangey color, I guess And just do like as if it's a frame around them Just to tie it all together and then these items would make more sense. Maybe I kind of think yeah, I feel like it added something definitely So maybe if I make it like more exaggerated I don't know whether to make like the background a solid color as well Maybe like a light blue. I think I might try that and I think that's it's completed What do you guys think it's time to take off the tape? Boom and release it from this paper Which I'm a little bit nervous about because of the whole debacle with the um modeling paste But let's see if it works. Okay. It's coming out Yeah, there we go. I'm going to varnish this later because I always I always get anxious about varnishing them So I'm gonna varnish it off camera a bit later I probably might upload that to my tiktok if I varnish it, but yeah Here's the final pane over. What do you guys think? I really like it. I think the Modeling paste even though it was a moment of pure panic Um, I think it really added something to it And definitely like how it turned out and Yeah, definitely prefer it to the cover even though I prefer the shows in the new the books So shows about that the dog turned out not too bad as well. I'm glad I challenged myself on that So there it is guys. That's the end of the video. Thank you so much for watching If you got this far you like what I did Please give me a thumbs up and a little comment or something because it really helps with the video You know some garbage, but thank you so much for watching and I hope to see you next time. Bye