Click the green flag, watch, enjoy, love, favorite, remix, and follow for more speedpaints! Also, comment with what you want the next one to be. DISCLAIMER: I did not use paint or speed for this rendering. I have decided that I will start a studio for these when I have shared ten of them. This is #6!
Би, та харж хийсэн юм бэ? This drawing is based on Jules Feiffer's famous illustrations in one of my favorite books, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. The Everpresent Wordsnatcher is a giant bird that takes the words right out of your mouth and he is my favorite character in the whole book. This speedpaint was different than all of the others for several reasons. This is the first time I was trying to replicate a very signature style. Jules Feiffer has a way of drawing that uses a lot of pencil strokes, so I used the Freeform Drawing tool in vector more than I ever have before (I usually try to avoid it). Also, I used a lot more gradients than I usually do. Milo is the figure in the bottom left corner. I changed the bird's eyes at the end because he only has one eye open at a time. I had a lot of fun with the background. I just held shift and made a ton of vertical lines. I thought it looked interesting to have the title behind the lines, even though it's harder to see. Another fun thing was making the shedding feathers. I'm sorry that this doesn't have background music yet. I'm trying to find an appropriate song. The letters dropping from the Wordsnatcher's mouth are supposed to represent him feeding on words and spitting out whatever phrases he wants. The words in this case are from one of my favorite lines in the book. ""Wait!" shouted Milo, who'd thought of many more questions he wanted to ask. "Thirty-four pounds," shrieked the bird as he disappeared into the fog." I am secretly a pomegranate. ~Milkshake-Man-V P.S. I created this project while listening to Bob Ross's "The Joy of Painting."
