 Hello everybody and welcome back to The Average. Today we are painting over Dr. Sleep, the movie cover of the book. If you're new here and haven't seen my previous paintovers, I paint on movie covered books because I dislike them thoroughly and I think a lot of people have the same opinion. If you're of the opinion that I shouldn't paint on my things that I own myself then I would just leave because this isn't a video for you. In this video we're also doing a giant giveaway with Artex who are kindly giving away to five people, a giant little gouache pack and also some other goodies and all you have to do is paint your favorite book. So not paint on the book, you don't need to do that. You just need to paint your favorite book cover in your style and tag me and Artex on Instagram and then we will pick a winner in probably a couple of weeks and you can receive your own set of gouache and some pens and things like that. So five winners will get those products and then also another ten people are gonna get a surprise gift and all the other participants can get a discount code for Artex. It's really kind of them to send out these prizes to you guys so please take a look at the competition. I will link my Instagram and their Instagram in the description. Let's get to painting the book. Okay first of all this made me cringe as much as it's making you cringe but there was a shiny element embossed onto the book cover that I had to scratch off with a nail file and I know that's horrific. As I was doing it I was like what are we doing? This is horrendous. I had to do it to help the paint stick to the book cover and I think it really helped me out a lot so that's why I'm using this kind of, I didn't have any sandpaper so I had to use a nail file which is really you know the bougie lifestyle that I live. But yeah so I scratched that off so I was able to paint and make the paint stick better. This time round I decided to kind of handle out where I would be drawing on the book, painting on the book because I felt like I had a very specific design in mind and I wanted the composition to be exactly how I had nailed it out so I used a watercolor pencil to draw on top of the book and luckily it really made a mark on top of the book which I didn't know if it was gonna work or not. So it gave me a sort of outline, it's very rough outline of where to paint and where each element of the composition was gonna go because it was also a watercolor pencil, it blended in nicely, it just kind of faded away all the pigment which is a really handy tip that I picked up watching YouTube. I saw somebody using a watercolor pencil as an undersketch for a painting and I was like that's brilliant. I haven't ever thought about doing that before because it just fades away the pencil marks and I think I might do that from now on. But then I'm kind of used to just going ahead and painting straight forward. I think maybe I might do a little rough outline from now on using watercolor pencils. I think it's just a great way to navigate what you're gonna be painting and stuff like that. Sometimes I make mistakes and maybe it's laziness or maybe it's just like the way that I like to do my art. I'm a bit haphazard, I kind of just go for stuff and it has its positives but it also has its negatives. So on the book cover I decided to paint a figure of a woman. Now it could either be Abra or it could be the villain of this book who is called Rose the Hat and I didn't want to draw because Rose the Hat appears a lot with this top hat which is kind of like this magical thing that she has. I didn't want to draw that because I wanted it to be up to the viewer who maybe they're looking at and so it's sort of kind of a stylized abstract take on the book cover because the perspective is a little bit off but it's kind of intentional because I wanted it to be as if we're floating through something and her hair has become like a night sky and it's floating up to the clouds and she's sleeping in bed but then the cat who appears in the story as well is appearing on her bed and it's not necessarily meet any part of the book or any scene because I've read a lot about book cover illustration and apparently the best way to do a book cover illustration is sort of to hint at what's inside the book but never actually draw like a complete scene like never expect it to be something that will happen inside the book and just sort of hint at maybe the characters or things inside the book and I think that's a really cool thing I always try to think about how that would work when I do these book cover paintovers. So I watched a movie last night for this book and I really like the movie it's a good movie but it's definitely a sequel to Stanley Couric I think I'm saying his name right. It's definitely sequel to the movie it's not really a sequel to the book because the book is very different to what the movie comes to and I think if you are a fan of the shining the film I think it's a great add-on to it I don't know I wouldn't necessarily I don't know it doesn't really tie everything up for me very well I don't want to spoil anything don't worry I won't spoil anything but yeah if you've watched both movies maybe you understand what I think because I think the first two-thirds of the film are really great and I think the final act is a little bit like playing to the audience of the movies rather than the books and it's very different to what actually happens in the book and I know obviously like not everything can stay the same when they do adaptations but I think if you're gonna deviate so much from the original content I don't know I just don't think it works so much for me I really enjoyed the book I think it is a lot more thriller-esque than it is horror as the shining is kind of pure horror like it's the first horror I ever read and I absolutely love that book so I was really interested to read Doctor Sleep and I did really enjoy the book itself I really like elements of it but I think it's not as good as the shining maybe some people disagree it kind of depends on your personal taste like if you prefer a bit more thriller or a bit more horror I love the universe of Stephen King's books because I guess it's all kind of the same universe and the shining where people have the power to read minds but there's also a horror element I really love that mixture of themes because I don't know I haven't I guess I need to read more horror but I think that is what makes it interesting is how it has magical elements but also this terrifying elements as well and I really appreciate that overall I really like the way that it felt to paint over this book I use the gouache the Artex gouache obviously and an ink pen to draw the outlines at the end and also I used a paint marker to just kind of define the stars in the sky in her hair I really wanted an abstract theme to this and I really like the way that I've built up the paint I like that the under paint is like this orange hue so it kind of shines on around them and it gives a little bit of depth to this I think I'm gonna be using that style more frequently in paintings in the future so that's my overall book I hope that you guys enjoy this and I will see you at the end I think that's the final piece I really like the way that this turned out I think that this really fits the story for me I wanted it to be a little bit abstract but also have some sort of symbolism of what happens in the story and so I kind of drew Abra here but it could also be taken as like maybe it's Rose the Hat I don't know it's kind of up to the viewer's idea I had an idea to keep like maybe put the top hat in but I wanted it to be like maybe it could be either of the the women in the story and then I wanted to include the cat that is on the original cover that I read because I really love the cat cover I'm obviously a cat person so I had to put the cat in there and yeah I really like the way that this turned out I think it's really cute I really did actually quite like the cover of this one the film cover was quite cool to be honest but it fits more the movie which deters so much from the original content of the book that I think deserved a paint over let me know what you guys think don't forget to check out the competition in the Instagram links down below make sure you're following me and our text and just create your own favorite book cover it can be an illustration of your favorite book cover it can be your own design of a faith of your favorite book and yeah just have fun with it guys I hope that you guys really enjoy it and I look forward to seeing your entries on Instagram thanks everybody please like and subscribe for more content and I will see you next time bye I would like to give a massive shout out to all my beautiful beautiful patrons for supporting me they are Lucille Tim and Charlotte Jacqueline Ace Tobolim Alex Steph Eva and the gay if you guys would like to sign up for picture rewards check out the link down below thanks