From where do artists gather inspiration?
How can nostalgia drive creativity for a new narrative in art?
For this drawing challenge, I would like you to draw from your imagination in your own technical style.
Create an illustration based off a character, characters, or subject matter from your childhood, or something that represents popular culture for you now, that depicts a never-been-seen-before narrative.
Project Requirements:
Create an illustration based off a character, characters, or subject matter from your childhood, or something that represents popular culture for you now, that depicts a never-been-seen-before narrative.
Project Requirements:
- Character / Characters are manipulated and changed to best fit your own style. Should not be copied from originals
- Some sort of scene should be drawn. (landscape, urban, fantasy, etc)
- Color is preferred, but must at least be inked
- The composition should visually "tell a story" (figurative, metaphorical)
- Composition needs to be unified and finished. Visually, aesthetically resolved.
Investigate & Plan
| Project Investigation & Planning Sheet |
Pick a character or characters that were dear to your heart as a child, or still are and create a new narrative. Something we never knew about them before!
Or, create a parody of an artwork from history and tell a new narrative. Consider the current times we live in as a theme.
