Video: Art Ideas for Inspiration: Illustrating Plot of a Story

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A good story can inspire artists looking for subjects to paint. Find inspiration in the plot of a good book by following the tips in this free painting and drawing lesson from an art instructor.

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There's a lot to work on even in one scene of a story, and so far I've got Hansel and Gretel in their woods and their father is like walking away from them in the woods, he might even be behind a tree which would make him even farther away from them. So he's like hidden partly by the tree. But what would make this really scary is to realize what's looming ahead of them, which we know, is the witch. And the witch, I thought, would be good, red is a color of danger, so I found some red paper and I cut out something that I though looked kind of like a witch. Here's her chin, her nose, and then her hat. So I've got my witch here, but the witch has to be in the forest. Without any trees around her, this isn't still cohering, so we have to somehow fit the forest back so she's sort of like lurking behind the trees and she's like super big because she's such a threat. I mean she wants to gobble these guys right up. So I've put her sort of behind the trees there. And to make her a little bit more, I'm going to give her an eye, nobody else has eyes, but this gives her that little bit more menace. So I've got the menace, I've got the sadness, and the last thing I'm going to do is say, "Well, this is on white paper, and white, to us, is light".

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Art Ideas for Inspiration: Illustrating Plot of a Story

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