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I tried to explain a few things to keep in mind when telling a story in a painting, using my painting "Follow" as a guide.
For young artists: From my own experience, I can say that you should not feel discouraged because some viewer tells you he "doesn't get it" (or worse, because he doesn't get it claims it's not there in the first place). Not everyone may understand the story in your painting, but if most do, that's enough. Storytelling is left to imagination and interpretation, and therefore people will read things into your artwork that you never put in; sometimes that is good, sometimes not.
Also, it is okay to leave mysteries even to yourself as the creator. You don't have to do a Freudian analysis why you put a red scarf on a figure or an apple in the corner if you just felt like it. All you have to do is to make your artwork consistent (don't be peaceful in the left half of the painting and warlike in the right, unless you intend to depict conflict, etc).

See the painting here: [link]


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*OnyxOryx Jan 28, 2013
This one is especially awesome!
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*Ranarh Jan 28, 2013
Thanks :thanks:
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~sevenofeleven Mar 18, 2012
Thanks for the tips.
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*Ranarh Mar 19, 2012
You are welcome.
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=mosobot64 Mar 7, 2012  Student General Artist
Ranarh, as usual, you're a genius.
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*Ranarh Mar 7, 2012
Thank you very much,

such a comment was just what I needed. I've just been busy for hours updating my gallery and journal. :hug:
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=mosobot64 Mar 7, 2012  Student General Artist
That makes a lot of sense. You put in a ridiculous amount of work into what you do here, and I think it shows.
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~Genji-brush Jan 2, 2012
It makes me realise that I don't plan enough, which I should, it would save a lot of time in the end! I've just found the composition tool in Corel painter, I can see how you've used it in your painting and how the eye gets drawn to the stag instantly.

Yep there are a lot of lessons here, keep it up!!
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*Ranarh Jan 2, 2012
The tool is very useful indeed. I'm glad you found the tutorial useful, and I hope I've saved you some time, because I had the same problem, and often had to rearrange my entire painting in a late stage.

:thanks:
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~Lowegule Dec 17, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
superb
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