 Okay let's talk. I really loved to all the boys I loved before. I really actually really liked the film and it stars an Asian American lead Laura Jean and I really like her character I think she's bubbly and vivacious and full of joy and love and she's quirky and she's all good things. Now do I love movie covers on books? No. And could this be considered a movie cover on a book? I thought so when I ordered it and it even had the Netflix sticker and I realized this is not the cover from the movie because that is not the Laura Jean that I know and also this is not her bedroom in the movie. Yeah I kind of lied a little bit in the title just to link back to other videos that you may have seen where I draw on books or paint on books I'm not going to actually paint on this book but I'm gonna make like a dust jacket for it and an alternative cover and I thought that could be like a fair compromise because I thought it was a little unfair to paint on this book when it's not actually a movie cover. If this is your first time dropping in I'm sorry about the title it's not clickbait I promise all my other videos have been bookpaintovers and they are in playlist which I will link down below. I would just like to say this because I never do I apologize for doing this at the beginning of the video but if you would like to catch these stickers set and this limited edition print of my Ghibli redraw go ahead and go to Patreon because I'm only offering this until the 1st of December and then next month there'll be different stickers and prints. Sorry for having to self promote there. I am so in love with these brush markers I think I want to do everything with them from now on because I just love using them I even bought a few more and took some of the like partitions in the box out to add a few more colors to the whole box so there's more than 48 in my collection which is a bit crazy actually thinking about it. Anyway I decided to use this and I used the Winsor & Newton brush marker paper with it as well so I made the little dust jacket out of paper and I think it was quite thin but it still works because once the colors on top you can't see the book through the paper. It obviously isn't like the most perfect dust jacket but I think it definitely helps to put a cover to this book when I didn't want to paint on top of it. I hope you guys can forgive that obviously I already stated the reasons why so I won't go into it again. If you haven't read or watched the films to all the boys I loved before basically what happens and I'll just give a little brief representation of what the book's about no spoilers. Basically what it's about is this girl called Laura Jean and she writes a letter to any guy that she's kind of loved or had a crush on in the past and she writes the letter to say goodbye to them and then puts it away in her hat box and like tucks it away and to like help her process and forget about the boy that she fancied or liked and then over the years she's obviously accumulated a lot of these letters and one day they just go missing and you find out that they've all been posted so a lot of stuff happens, awkward situations with some of these boys and she has to kind of cover up why she's done this and in the story she makes a fake relationship with a guy to avoid an awkward situation with another guy and it's really funny and charming and cute and it's just generally like a nice contemporary young adult read and it doesn't take too much effort to read and it's just you know it's a nice happy story and I did really enjoy it. I think I have a bit of a soft spot for contemporary books especially young adult I think it just takes me back to being like a teenager and all those feelings and stuff it's just really nice I really enjoyed these books. I'm currently reading the second, the third one in the series I finished the second one a few weeks ago and I was going to make this like three books in one but I decided to have a go with just painting the first book and if everyone likes this then I'll go ahead and do the other two books and then we'll see them all together and I think that could be quite cute but let me know if you want to see that because there's no point doing it if nobody wants to see it you know so I decided to do a little bit of an abstract kind of representation of this book because the original cover is obviously Laura Jean in her room and I didn't really want to represent it in exactly the same way as the original cover because then what was the point so I have like Laura Jean kind of sitting on cloud nine because she's always kind of up in the sky and her head is a bit you know she's a bit of a fantasy kind of person she's always daydreaming and falling in love with people and I just what it made sense for her to be sitting on cloud nine and then all these letters are just whooshing by her like somebody's let them go into the wind and they're all heading off to the different boys and I really like it I like the colors and I think it's really cute I wanted to try something different with like using different inks and pencils and the alcohol markers on top and I think it really works I never have I haven't actually tried this paper before so I wasn't sure how it was going to handle the ink and everything but I think it worked quite well with the alcohol markers even though it's made for it it kind of left a bit of a texture but I don't mind that we all know that I like texture so I just went with it and added a lot more texture with pencils and stuff and tried to separate the areas and make it like really mythical abstract fantasy kind of illustration and I really liked it I had a bit of struggle with Laura Jean's face because I did sketch this out a couple times like did a little bit of a thumbnail in my sketchbook and I like drew out her face and I really like the face that I drew in the sketchbook and this face looks a little bit I don't know it's not quite as I tried to do it but in the end it's not awful so isn't that a bonus when we can say art is an awful so I added these ink washes of like swirling and like maybe some magical thing is pushing these letters along to each boy and I thought it worked quite nicely I had I went over a little bit with the details and I just wanted to make sure that Laura Jean's sit or sit a little bit better in this environment and she blended in a little bit well and yeah I really liked it in the end and I hope that you guys like it too let me know what you think it's one of those ones where it's so different from the original that it might not be to everyone's taste especially if you like the book because maybe it doesn't really have anything to do with the book except for the letters and obviously the main character but you know it's an abstract kind of idea of the sort of feeling you get in this book because it's so it's very romantic and lovey dovey and it kind of fits Laura Jean's personality she's always quite lovely and you know yeah always daydreaming like I said so I think this works perfectly and yeah I hope you guys like it I used a lot of inks and different mixed media and I just enjoyed the process I definitely enjoyed the Netflix film too which I actually watched first so if you're interested in finding out more about this story then give that a go because it's actually quite a nice film and it doesn't really like patronize like teenage audience year I think it does well with like kind of some hard subject matters which is always good to to see in a young adult kind of contemporary piece of work because I think sometimes it can get to that where it sort of dumps things down for people and I think teenagers are a lot more savvy than a lot of people like to admit so I'm glad that this is quite an open piece of work anyway that's kind of the final piece and I will see you at the end and there is our finished piece of all the boys I loved before I really like this cover even though it's kind of a dust jacket I had the idea to make these little letters which I think really adds something to it I think it's really cute and yeah I really enjoyed the process and I really like the outcome I think it's really cute and I think it totally represents what the book is about so I hope you guys enjoyed this video please like and subscribe if you want more content and I will see you next time I would just like to give a massive shout out to my patrons they are Lamont, Luzonia, Shan, Jordan, Illera, Devon, Estubulum, Jacqueline, Heidi, Suki, Steph, Ava, Lucille, Erica, Miguel, Tim and Charlotte and Alex thanks so much you guys