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Day 12 challenge: Metaphorical or literal approach

Day 12 challenge: Metaphorical or literal approach

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Day 12 challenge: Metaphorical or literal approach

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Welcome to day 12 of the 21 day drawing challenge. When you communicate with visuals via drawings, you'll have to decide if a message is best carried forth in a literal sense or by way of the visual metaphor instead. Sometimes, the best way to communicate a specific topic is to do so using visuals that are not literally related to it. Advertising agencies and iconography artists do this all the time. For example, if you had to create a drawing based on the word security, you might choose to draw a padlock as a literal approach. But you could also leverage a visual metaphor of a mother holding her baby to communicate security in a figurative way. Your drawing challenge today is to create a drawing for each of the following terms without using words, letters or faces within your drawings. The terms you'll be drawing are anguish, curiosity, hope, and mystery. Get clever with how you solve these visual concepts and try to avoid the most obvious solution and seek to discover a unique idea.

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