 Hello everybody and welcome back to The Everidge. It's me Steph. Hey, how are you doing? How's it going? Today I'm going to do the 100 page challenge, but with a twist. Usually with the 100 page challenge, what I do is I flip to the 100 page of a book and I pick out a prompt or draw a scene or just get inspiration from the page, you know, kick off the cobwebs of art block or whatever it may be and just draw. But this time I'm going into a book that I have never read before. So I'm going to flip to the 100 page and read it and try and get some context from this, but it's going to be completely random. I know a little bit about this book because it's set in the Grisha verse, which I did read The Shadow and Bone, the first book of that. You can see a book paintover in a previous video. I'll link it somewhere. And yeah, so this is set in the same universe, but I know it's about Heist and that's about it. So I'm going to flip to 100 page and find out what we're drawing today. So the 100 page, this is obviously going to be spoilers for me, but I thought it would be fun to try and test it out. It's the only, it's only a 100 page of like 500, so it should be okay. And if anything, it will give me a little teaser of what's to come. I do know that this book is about a Heist, but that's about it. And I know it's obviously a fantasy book. And yeah, a lot of friends have recommended me this book. So hopefully I will enjoy it. Yeah. Okay, three of them, Starling and Snapple, tumbling over one of the ones I'm going to get to try. Clearly the bloody rock in his hand. Okay, that is the 100 page. Sounds like a pretty action-y shot with this guy, Mateus and Nina, was it? Completely forgot her name instantly. Yeah, Nina. So there's two characters and they seem to be in some sort of arena. So let's see. Maybe I'll draw like some wolves surrounding this guy, Mateus. And then we'll see. Let's draw some wolves, I guess. I think that's the takeaway that I'm going to take. They prompt, I'm going to take away from this book. I've been recently working on my character design a bit more. So like I've been trying to branch out and do some kind of different, I hate this page, but I think some good stylization work because I'm trying to change the style a little bit because I want to make a new comic, but I really want to have like really stylized characters this time and make them quite simple. So yeah, I've just been kind of trying to do that a little bit and like a face. And yeah, so that would be a good chance for me to do that now and see if I could draw this guy, this Mateus. So I'm just going to start out by like doing some random faces, I think, for this character. I feel like this is such a good exercise to just get rid of our block because I'm feeling like drawing men and drawing them in strange poses and drawing these wolves and maybe adding a bit of like movement to the page with sharpening and things. So it's been really fun to just draw this page and I'm going to keep going because I've kind of got that, you know that little itch, that little like actually I'm enjoying this. I'm going to continue and maybe add some different colors and just I'm enjoying the way that this is looking like it started out rough and then slowly I developed what I was doing like trying to get more like rough kind of character design work but like poses and just work with that and then also the rubbings. I don't know, it's not the best page but I think it's helping me get rid of that sort of drained feeling that I have a little bit you know when you have burnout I had that massively just like Christmas time so I'm feeling it now and I'm getting into it also the poo is looking a little bit rough, pray for him, send forth some prayers please. He may make it through, also my finger I just massively chopped my finger so let's keep going I feel like I've got the bug, I've got the urge to continue so I'm going to do so. Okay I have bought out the paints because I want to just, I don't know, do some painting I guess. I really like this page, a lot of movement and dynamic and then I drew this guy and I was like yeah I feel like it anymore so I'm gonna try and like follow what I enjoyed about what I was doing here and that's kind of like the dynamic poses so I'm gonna bring some more up on Pinterest and just try and like paint them out. I'm just trying to follow the enjoyment of it so that's a good way to like break out of art block is like you have a lot of pressure if you're just staring at this white page but if you just think oh I enjoyed drawing this guy so I'm gonna draw this guy and now I'm gonna draw more poses and then I'm gonna bring it into another page maybe I add some color maybe I'll add what I enjoy which is painting so maybe I'll do that and that's kind of my fault process we're trying to do this now and hopefully it helps you guys out if you're a bit stuck as well it's it's a long process and you've got to have like faith in it because I know like it can be really frustrating to just sit and stare and be like I'm not feeling it like every single day so it's kind of annoying but yeah I'm hoping that this helps so I think I'm gonna draw like a woman now because I prefer drawing with women which doesn't really make any sense but I'm just gonna paint out like this sort of dynamic pose or more or less in this blue to match with what the page is like doing and we're just gonna go for it and have fun and not have pressure like you know the original title of this video is like oh what can I do with this page on the book but if the whole idea is breaking out of art block then you shouldn't limit yourself to what you think you should get done so just like try and have fun with what you're doing I guess which is what I'm going with today and what I'm doing is blocking out the silhouette of this pose which really helps if you look at the gaps in between her arm and her neck and then look at the shape but her back is making here with her skirt and then her legs here you can see like the negative shapes without the image and that helps to block out a pose for me anyway yeah I'm just trying to enjoy myself a little bit here so I would really love to do like another comic so I'm thinking about doing like a longer comic this time instead of a short one and I have an idea which I need to just rough out a bit more because I did like I don't know if you guys have heard of nano nano writing which is like in November people write like a whole book basically together or as many as many words as it can and I did that years and years ago and I kind of wrote like this outline for a story which I really liked so I was wondering if I could maybe turn that into a comic because I really liked the idea of it but it needs work and I never finished it so I don't really have an ending yeah so that's my full process right now that's where I'm at I did want to do that autobiographical comic but I just I don't feel like I'm in the right mindset to do it yet I want to do a longer form of like a fictional thing first because I think that will lead me more into the path of being able to do something autobiographical I don't know I'm I'm doing that thing where I'm like oh yeah I'll do this project and getting excited and doing another project so hopefully I can stick to one project and see how it goes yeah I've sold out all of the other comics might order more soon but I'm not sure not sure how many more people want them I was hoping to do like if in the future somehow I could do a Kickstarter or something or crowdfunding but then Kickstarter did that weird thing where they've gone into Bitcoin which I really don't understand so I don't know if anyone's heard of that and can explain it to me kind of like this like the expression of this of it that makes sense I don't want to do something else I enjoyed certain aspects of this drawing but I don't like it completely so I like the background the color I like the dynamic pose so I'm gonna try and do something like this again and follow the enjoyment of what I liked about this painting and this is slowly breaking me out of our block I've got a show on in the background just listening to stuff and sitting here with a coffee I'm relaxed about it it's my sketchbook it's not too much pressure and I think that's the key when you're trying to break out of our block so I'm hoping that this is helping someone out there who's just like what do I do this time I'm gonna use a brush ink pen because I feel like that would help the colors pop a bit more let's see I don't know I'm just having fun with it okay so I would continue painting but I've got to get this video up today so basically we went from the hundred page of six of crows to this that was kind of the final outcome but the final outcome really is more or less me breaking out of our block and I really hope that this video would help you guys in some way if you like a bit stuck or whatever like I have been a little bit recently so I hope that this video helps somebody out there and I think that it will be really useful hopefully for somebody anyway thanks for watching guys please like and subscribe that'd be awesome of you guys and hopefully see you next time thanks again to my beautiful patrons if you guys want to check out my patron on our book club this month we are reading the six of crows so if you fancy seeing my thoughts on the actual book then let me know let me know or join the club see you guys next time bye