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In this lesson we're going to be talking about "The story is everything".

Now I know that perhaps at the stage of the course you're thinking "Wow man, this is wordy.

Are we ever going to do some drawing?"

Trust me most, of the Course is drawing related, but this stuff is very very important to know, to have

in your mind, to learn, to digest. So really take this seriously and consider it very very important.

All right so, the story, right.

The first big point is Vision right.

If you've done the "Art Fundamentals Course" or even if you haven't it doesn't really matter.

Vision is your preconception or your conceptualizing of the character that you're drawing.

Thinking about who the character is, where is the character, perhaps in the present scene, what roles do

they live in, what is their personality, what is the story of the piece that you're currently drawing.

What is the feeling?

What is the mood?

What did the expression on their face? What is the piece communicating?

The story is extremely extremely extremely extremely important to creating a piece that is emotive, and

as we've learned in the "Technicalities versus emotional impact lesson", emotional impact is crucial in

creating a piece that is appealing.

Ultimately we really want to create works that are appealing.

We want our work to have appeal; that has the ability to persuade someone to look at it and to maintain

them looking at it and give them some joy or fully communicate the message of the piece to them and an effective

way that they find satisfied.

Now one of the most important things I could ever tell you about art and I'm going to do my best

to make this as clear as possible, is to have you realize that the artwork itself is just the medium.

Right.

Perhaps that seems obvious right.

But let me give you some examples.

A book is a medium.

A movie is a medium and a newspaper is a medium a magazine is a medium.

Right.

Art is a medium.

Music is a medium.

Right.

These are just mediums. The artwork that you end up with in many ways is just the medium.

Right.

The message however, is that thing that you're communicating through the medium.

Right, and the message is very very very important.

As I tell students constantly, make some thing cool don't make a cool artwork right.

Don't think about the artwork.

Think about the thing.

Have your thoughts on the thing itself that you're creating.

In our case characters, right. Think deeply about the character, who the character is what the character

is wearing, where the characters at, what their personalty is and so on and so forth.

Right.

Making some thing cool is much more important in making a cool artwork.

Right.

The concept in itself should be good.

It should be able to be described with 100 keywords.

You know you have a poor message if there are only a few keywords that could be attributed to what is

communicated through the medium.

You know, if you do a if you design a great character, it should be able to be communicated effectively

and appealingly through any medium.

Lets for arguments sake a 3D model, or in a book, or in a comic book, or in a

painting, a beautiful painting, the character's concept itself should hold most of the appeal, and your

implementation of that should be, you know, sufficient enough to adequately describe and do justice

to the concept that you've come up with.

So once again: artwork is a medium.

Its not the message and the message is extremely extremely important.

And in our case the message of the story and the story is everything right.

The story is everything. Especially when we are talking about character artwork. Hope that was really clear.

Let's move on.