Art Ideas for Inspiration: Illustrating Story Characters

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"It's gentle, and I'm going to make some difference between Hansel and Gretel so Hansel is bigger and sort of straighter, and Gretel has more curves, sort of more girlish in a way, more feminine and smaller because for some reason, I guess, I remember her as being younger than Hansel. So they're here in the forest, and they could be anywhere in the forest. Really this shape is too big, if I put this back here it wouldn't make sense because Hansel would be a giant compared to the tree. Because this is about Hansel and Gretel I'm thinking of them being close in the foreground. So there's Hansel and Gretel, and then we're going to think about, we want to see that their father left them. So I cut out another little shape in a dull brown color because I figure he's sad to leave his children, and I did it real little because he's leaving, so he has to be far away. So he's going to be up here somewhere in the trees, and he's going to be far away, and he's sort of like leaving, we get a feeling that he's leaving. And if I wanted to make that a stronger, what would happen if I put these two down here so the space is even farther away? So I'm already having some fun here thinking about my colors and my shapes and everything, but this isn't setting it up yet, it's still just kind of shapes."