While it may seem counterintuitive, using images of food in art is a great way to amp up the symbolic connections and emotional power of your art. It's true that food is commonplace and often overlooked, but it's this ordinary-ness that makes it such an effective connection point to deeper emotions. We all eat. We all have memories and strong associations related to food.

This makes food a natural throughline to deep feelings, stories and meaning. In this class, we'll learn how to tap into that well of meaning, even with just a single-image illustration. We'll learn how to choose subjects and references that communicate the stories and feelings we want to explore, and we'll put all the pieces together in a condensed 30 min real-time demo.

What's Covered in the Class:

• What makes a food image feel a certain way
• How to tap into specific emotions and moods
• How to increase the sense of narrative in your food illustration, even when you're drawing a simple subject on a plain background
• How to take a good reference image
• How to make a food illustration look delicious
• PLUS a 30 min in-depth demo step-by-step active explanation along the way