Hello and welcome to my channel!
I'm Inkyswampboy, and today I'm gonna be trying
the 100th Page Challenge, which was started
by The Average Artist. She's done a bunch
of these so check out her channel, I've put
a link down in the description.
The challenge is basically to choose a book,
turn to the 100th page, and do an illustration
based on what's going on or sort of inspired
by what's happening.
I don't read loads these days but I do have
quite a lot of books to choose from, and I
ended up deciding on Good Omens.
I have a lot to talk about with the book in
general and the scene I drew, so let's get
into the main video.
First off, if you're not aware, Good Omens
is a novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
and it's sort of mainly about an angel and
a demon who are trying to stop the end of
the world.
That's simplifying it a lot but yeah. There
was a recent TV adaptation of it which I really
enjoyed, I've tried not to lean too heavily
on how the characters look in the show though
and have it as more of a book illustration.
There's not too much information given about
how they look in the book either so a lot
of it is just based on my imagination really.
In this particular scene, a character called
Anathema who's a human has just accidentally
crashed her bike into the back of Aziraphale
and Crowley's car, and Aziraphale has tried
to sort of subtly fix it with his angelic
magic but he isn't getting away with it because
he's fixed it too well and made it be much
better than it was before.
The scene was already kind of a challenge
because the whole thing is sort of centred
around bikes and I find bikes very hard to
draw. I think that's a common thing for a
lot of artists actually. So I'm drawing Aziraphale
pushing the bike towards Anathema and having
her sort of a bit confused because the bike
looks totally different and she feels like
maybe she hit her head when she crashed and
fell into a ditch.
Then I'm just drawing Crowley sort of in the
background kind of just embarrassed about
the whole thing and not really wanting to
get into it.
The book does say that Anathema's wearing
a witchy sort of cloak but also that she's
quite modern and practical so I wanted to
give her a modern look with a cloak on top.
I think she actually did end up looking kind
of like she does in the TV show honestly,
but that wasn't intentional. They did do a
good job with casting though I think.
I thought a lot about how I wanted Aziraphale
and Crowley to look. I was inspired to base
Aziraphale's clothing on a more vintage kind
of old fashioned style, since I think that's
very much his personality, so I gave him a
kind of overcoat and scarf and wire glasses.
The hair gave me more trouble because I don't
think he pays a lot of attention to it but
I couldn't imagine him with just a short back
and sides, so I ended up defaulting to the
curly classic angelic hairstyle.
Crowley was a lot easier to do, mostly because
he canonically cares about his appearance
more and has a sort of deliberate kind of
style, but also because his whole aesthetic
is very similar to mine. He wears a lot of
black for one thing and I wear pretty much
exclusively black. I think the style I put
him in is based on something I kind of wish
I could wear, it was very easy to imagine.
I basically imagined them standing on a country
road with a big hedgerow in the background,
which is something I like to draw a lot. It
did make the whole drawing take a lot longer
because I like to draw um... details? I mean
I don't literally draw every single leaf that
would be in a hedge, but I do like to draw
a lot of them! So a lot of my drawings are
very time consuming but I've kind of accepted
that, I actively choose to draw in loads of
details.
I definitely always underestimate how long
a drawing takes me though. Like, filming YouTube
videos has been kind of useful because it's
putting a timeframe on it, and making me realise
just how long I spend on one drawing. It's
fine, it's fine, it's just surprising!
When I was drawing this, I was sort of imagining
it like a book illustration, and wanted to
really keep it in that style. A lot of my
inspiration for drawing is old vintage black
and white book illustrations, whether woodcuts
or engravings, or this kind of style like
pen and ink illustration.
I feel like book illustration must be really
fun, like especially when it's a full novel
which only has a few pictures across a long
book. Choosing which parts to illustrate and
then how to do those illustrations to work
in harmony with the text, that's a really
cool idea to me.
So, yeah! That's my illustration for the 100th
page of Good Omens.
I hope you enjoyed watching this, it was a
ton of fun to do and I'm happy with the illustration
I came up with. I think all the characters
came out pretty well, like, very much had
the energy of the characters in the book and
were pretty close to how I imagine them
I might do more of these in the future or
some other challenges around illustration
or books so if you have any ideas of challenges
I could do, let me know in the comments.
Thanks for watching, please like this video
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I'll see you again soon in the next video.
Bye!
