Hey guys welcome back to the average. If you're new he probably don't know that I do some book type of art often because I really love reading and I'm a writer so I like to incorporate those type of videos into what I do on this channel so hi if you're new and welcome back if you're old not old but yeah well maybe you're all I don't know we're going on a tangent. Anyway I decided to draw food from books and the first thing I decided to draw was kind of from a classic book and looking on it I don't know why I picked what I did because I chose Charlie and the chocolate patchy and you think oh Steph what did you choose some amazing bubble gum that changes flavors or some beautiful chocolate or a chocolate river or something no I chose cabbage soup and there's a reason for this because I thought it would just be nice to paint soup I guess that's a really really simple reason but anyway I thought what I would do is as I was painting each of the items that I picked I've chosen three different food items from books so as I speak about them I'm gonna give a little detail paragraph on them from the actual book so if you don't know about Charlie the chocolate patchy it's it's quite a famous story you know the whole Willy Wonka and Blah blah blah blah and the chocolate and he gets the golden ticket to go and visit this chocolate factory but I think what's most interesting about this story and its aspects is that the Charlie bucket and the bucket family are very poor so like you're kind of rooting for him from the start and I really like that part where he's they're all just down on their luck and well I don't like it but I find it interesting to read stories about rags to riches I always find that really inspiring and interesting so the paragraph of the book says the only meal they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch and cabbage soup for supper so I just thought I wanted to draw something from the beginning where you really get to know the characters and you get to understand why they do what they do and what motivates them and things I think that food is really important because it contrasts so heavily to all the sweets and luxurious food that they get to eat later on in the in the book so this is my drawing I just did simple watercolours for all of these illustrations because I just wanted to try and see what could happen if I could just do just plain watercolours I do add a little bit of mixed media in later on but most of it is just watercolours and pencils over the top I had a hard time getting the bowl to be like a round shape a round shape you know like not a wonky bowl I guess but it is Charlie and the truck factory and it's Willy Wonkers is a wonky bowl get it I hate myself I'm sorry and the next thing that I chose was I didn't know if this was a bit of a cheat because I know that this film is also a book and the book is a book that I love it's Hell's Moving Castle and I couldn't remember if this scene from the movie was actually in the book but I took a lot of inspiration from this website that I didn't mention before it's called fiction forward slash food dot com and they had like a list of different foods from books and then you could click on them and go through to like maybe a picture or we competed at article or you know a fan page of the book and it would tell you about the food so it was on that website so it must have been in the book I have the read the book it's one of my favorite books to be honest but I just couldn't remember if it was a scene in the film and also a bit in the book but it must be so it's all good I just can't find the paragraph so you're gonna have to use your imaginations here or go watch the movie or read the book yourself if you fancy it when people actually don't know that Hell's Moving Castle is based on a book which I find interesting because they are really good books I really enjoyed the last book in the series as well the house of many ways where well I wouldn't explain it but you guys can go look up those books if you're interested they're really light hearted fantasy and I just think they're like a comforting read if that makes sense they're just nice you know and they're interesting and I just I feel like the characters you get so much from them and yeah it's a great book so you guys should go check that out if you love the movie I know I love the movie so I was like yeah I'm gonna read these and I was blown away so there you go the painting and out quite nice I really like the way I did this I think some of the aspects I think I went a bit too overboard with the blue pencil but apart from that I really like the way the eggs and bacon look I don't eat bacon anymore but it does look tasty the last thing I picked technically isn't a food item but you know I had to do something from Harry Potter as this is the first time I'm doing this kind of video of choosing foods and I think Harry Potter is such a big influencer for many people especially myself so I had to do something from there but like the first one with the cabbage soup I wanted to do something a little bit outside of the box and do something that maybe people don't really remember that much or think about when they think about food from Harry Potter so I could have done Butterbeer or the chocolate frogs or birdsy bots every flavoured beans all those kind of staple things that we think about when we think about Harry Potter but yeah I wanted to do something different and this necessarily isn't food and it probably isn't something that most people in the Harry Potter universe would partake in drinking but it's unicorn blood and I just thought it would be a really cool thing to do because I mean it technically isn't like a drink it's not a potion but it is it's kind of an illegal drink so this is the passage from the book the blood of the unicorn will keep you alive even if you are an inch from death but at a terrible price you will have slain something pure and defenseless to save yourself and you will have but half a life a cursed life from the moment the blood touches your lips I found that so interesting and I was like I wanted all this and I could do like a really cool bottle style and maybe some fancy liquid inside the bottle and I kind of forgot that unicorn blood is supposed to be silver so I did like kind of a gray color with a tinge of you know pinks and stuff because when I was researching images for unicorn blood it was all gray or silver so I remembered that now that that's what it looks like in the book and I thought that would just be a really fun thing to do and I think this is probably one of my favorite illustrations of today and yeah I just really liked it I liked the way that I did the perspective of the bottle and then inside you can see the liquid and you can see where the liquid is meeting the edge of the glass kind of thing and I just really enjoyed it and I think this one yeah is my favorite and of course I want to do more of these drawing illustrations ones that I missed out on was the white witch and the Turkish July I was thinking of definitely drawing that but then I just didn't it didn't make the cut guys and then I was going to do Peter's cheese buns from the Hunger Games because he's a baker in the story and stuff so I thought I could do something interesting like maybe make a cake and things that are looking up what famous food is in the Hunger Games and it was just kind of like Peter's cheese buns that he presents to Katnist and I was like yeah I mean maybe maybe in the future I might draw them if you guys want more of these types of videos let me know what your favorite bookish food is and I can have a go at drawing them maybe and yeah okay that's the last one and I think I'm gonna leave it there otherwise I'm probably gonna ruin it so that's the unicorn blood this is Calciper's breakfast and giant chocolate factories cabbage soup I don't know what you guys think which one was your favorite I'm a bit partial to the breakfast and I think my least favorite is probably the cabbage soup but there we go I really enjoyed making the unicorn blood and yeah I think they're all quite fun and they're kind of different to how I would usually do stuff so I think they worked out but maybe there's like some little mistakes on each of them but I think they're quite quirky in the way that maybe some of the perspective on the circles is quite skewed but I like them let me know which one is your favorite and if you like this video let me know if you want me to do more of this type of video with bookish stuff and I know I haven't done them in a while so it was fun to get back into that okay thanks for watching guys I will see you next time bye