What is Imaginative Realism?
Imaginative Realism is the realistic depiction of the unreal.
Think Dungeons and Dragons, Wings of Fire, Magic The gathering. Fairies, Monsters, Trolls, Dragons, Mermaids, and all sorts of other make-believe creatures.
Students began with an introduction to the artwork of Jesper Ejsing who creates characters and scenes for Dungeons and Dragons, along with other fantasy creations. Some of his work is pictured below:
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After learning about what Imaginative Realism is and some of the characteristics of that type of artwork students were asked to create their own original character based off of the common characteristics of the style.
Students must include value and shading appropriately on their characters, and had to create some sort of texture as well as including details to make their character really come to life.
We reviewed different techniques for creating value using colored pencils and then I taught them different textures that could be achieved with colored pencils.
Materials:
Pencil
Brown paper
Sharpie (optional)
White Gel Pen (optional)
Colored pencils
The examples I made are:
Student projects are trickling in... in this virtual world were living in, it is most difficult to get things turned in when students have so much else going on in their lives. I'll take what I can get though!
Student artwork pictured below:
