 Welcome to a brand new series that I've decided to start on my channel. I want to start painting horror movies that I love. I always thought this would be a really fun idea to get stills from movies and paint them. I've seen a few people do this on YouTube where they find a scene from a movie and paint them. I've done it before. But I thought I would do it in a niche setting, so I would just do my favourite horror films and one of them is The Shining. I wanted to start off with this one because I think it is really cinematically dramatic and beautiful and there's a real sense and mood to it so I thought it would make sense for me to study stuff from a horror film to help develop my horror comic painting skills maybe? So yeah, that's why I've decided to do this today. And I want to begin with The Shining and then next week I might do Scream or something like that or whenever I continue the series if you guys enjoy this. The Shining is about a guy called Jack who is down on his luck. He is a hard-working man but he hasn't been able to find a job for a while. He wants to be a writer, that's his dream, so he finally gets his job at a hotel to become the winter caretaker for the Ovala Hotel. Now his son is kind of actually more of the story's main character because he has this thing called The Shining where he can hear other people's thoughts. So when he enters the hotel he also has this unique ability to transfer that to seeing ghosts and things like that. So he sees a lot of horrible things in this hotel such as ghosts and things coming to life and trying to attack him. I've also read the book so I'm kind of intermingling that story from the book to the show as well because I think the book is really really good as well. If you guys haven't read that then go ahead and do it. If you like horror, horror books that is. So Danny's visions become more disturbing and Jack you can tell that this hotel is evil and it's affecting him and from there the story develops. I don't really want to spoil it but I'm assuming that most people who've clicked on this video have seen The Shining or heard what it's about. Maybe you don't like horror films so I'm also not going to be doing anything scary here so don't worry about that if you're super sensitive to that stuff. But yeah it's just a film study, basically a cinematography study. I'll be looking at colour, composition and all those beautiful things that go into making a film because even though it's not the same as doing a comic I think that you can learn from certain things. Okay today I'm going to be using my acrylic, acrylic is that how you say it? Acrylic wash, it's Holbein wash. I think it's sort of like acrylic wash. So there's more like less on the watercoloury side if that makes sense. I've never really used them, I bought them in Japan and then I haven't used them that much so I'm planning to use them today. Obviously because I've been getting a lot of different paints like the jelly paints and stuff I haven't really felt the need to use these but I think they have a really nice colour set so and I think they kind of work well within the The Shining colour script as well so I want to try and use them and let's see how we get on. I also have my watercolours because I like mixing watercolours with this, I think they won't mix so well because this is acrylic wash but we only find out by experimenting. Recently I have been feeling pretty uninspired. I don't know what it is but I just find myself struggling to paint or draw and sometimes this happens, it's not necessarily art block as I consider art block when you just don't know what to draw whereas I know what I want to draw and I know what I want to do and accomplish but I just feel like right now I'm pretty much just stuck in a rut. I finish work and then I'm like okay I should do this, this, this and all I want to do is just watch Netflix or YouTube and just relax and I don't know why I'm finding it hard because I used to just be able to doodle in my sketchbook or draw or feel inspired to do something and recently no I'm just not feeling that that way so I'm hoping that this new series will help bring some life back to my my goals and help me continue on with writing the end of the script of the horror comic which I've decided on a name I think it will be called Dark Moon Prom Queen and I think that's a really fun name and it really emulates how the story will be and kind of pop-ishness of it if that's a way that I can describe what it would be like but yeah I think it's gonna be a lot more fun and story based than my other horror comic. My other horror comic I was more the first time doing something like that so I didn't really know what I wanted to do and I'm really proud of that comic but I think I want to build upon what my skill set was from that one to this one and maybe that's something that's holding me back a little bit maybe the fear of like not being able to accomplish the same thing again maybe that's weighing me down but I want to do it I want to bust through this this feeling and maybe it's just like summer grog that everyone gets you know when it gets hot so I just feel like really tired and that you know that summer grog anyway I'm digressing I felt that whilst I was painting these images as well they have that quirky style of like slightly off perspective and the textures that I like and I do at the base of it kind of like the way that these turned out but I'm not necessarily super proud of them I wish that I had had more inspiration going into it and felt more like when I first started I felt really happy to do it and inspired and ready to go and I wanted to create something that was really proud of and then I just kind of went and as the day went on I got a bit more tired and you know how it is when you're just reaching that point where you like this is not getting to what I want it to be so I have to say that I did kind of give up a little bit on these they are quote unquote finished but not to the degree that I wanted to finish them I think I could have powered through and made them a little bit better but I think sometimes if you just keep going and forcing yourself especially when I'm in this mood of like not feeling that inspired then I think I can be quite detrimental because next time you do something you'll kind of remember that like forcing yourself to do something and it's like the next time you want to get up and try and do that again I think you can be like okay this is what happened last time but it was really horrific so now I remember that so now it's even more difficult to do it I hope that makes sense to anybody out there maybe I should have just made myself continue but yeah these are the finished images and I hope this wasn't too negative but I'm trying to tell you guys that I'm ready to power through I'm gonna get on with it and finish the horror comic and yeah that's basically it these are the end results and I'm not particularly proud of them but I'm not particularly displeased with them either and I hope that you guys enjoyed watching this video and I want to continue on this series and maybe do a different movie next time let me know in the comments down below what movie you want to see next and as always I'd like to thank my patrons for their kind support they are Lucille, Charlotte and Tim, Jacqueline, Alex, Noxemba, Katie, Steph and Megia thank you guys so much for your support it really means a lot to me thanks a lot thanks for watching guys please like and subscribe and I will see you next time bye