In order to help with the laziness, I think I'm going to write a children's book. First I have to come up with a story. It is going to center around a purple and (a little bit) yellow lion. I don't exactly know why I decided to make him those colors, but I think it might have been because I wanted to make a character like the night sky or a shooting star. But I didn't want him to be blue because I felt that it would be more magical if he was purple.
For the story, I'm not really sure what to do, but I want to make the scenery and backgrounds as pretty as I can make them because they can help tie a story together. I'm also unsure about whether or not there should be a blatant or subtle moral or even if there is a moral. Most children's books seem to have a moral of some sort. Often times they are a cause and effect type of story (or at least the ones that I remember) where the character does something that he or she shouldn't have and then has to fix it. And the moral is shown at the very end. But I think I want to make the story more fantastical and magical more than anything, so I don't know how well a moral will go with it (or at least for the story I currently have in mind.
For now I think that I will brainstorm and create story boards and concept art. I think that I might end up turning it into my senior project because I think it would give me a lot more motivation to think that I get a grade based off of my work. Then I also might not become lazy in the middle of a page and decide to scrap it because the lighting was off or some trivial reason that is an easier fix than I make it. I hope everything goes well, but I may be shooting for something that I honestly can't even reach. I have a hard enough time with anatomy. Maybe the children won't notice...
Here's my submission for the contest (I finally finished!):
Here's a picture of the lion that I was describing (I don't have any other pictures of him as a lion because I changed him from a cat to a lion):
Hi Danielle! It's Raana. First of all, the end products of your drawings look amazing! I hope you get accepted into the art contest. I really like your idea of writing a children's book because your both creative, and a great artist. Anyway, good luck with both! :)
ReplyDeleteWow! I love your coloring! I'm pretty impressed because, honestly, I can't color. I hope you are successful in creating your children's book! Let me know how it goes! Oh, and yo kinda got me interested in prismacolor pencils because you're able to use them pretty well and my one of my favorite artists uses them all the time!
ReplyDeleteI think all stories have a subtle moral of some sort, just because you have characters that think things and do things, and learn things in the process, and the reader is left thinking about that. There's a problem characters overcome, and even if the author's not obvious about it, the reader is going to learn something from the way the characters go about it. Even a "purely" fantastical story is going to ideally leave kids thinking about the beauty of the universe. Maybe the moral won't be obvious, but it'll in some part be there.
ReplyDeleteAnd totally seconding the compliments here - wow, your art is amazing.