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- Remember, the goal of
this lesson is to get you

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thinking of yourself as a storyteller.

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As you'll discover, telling
stories can be challenging,

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so let's get a bit of advice

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and encouragement from our artists.

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- My high school art teacher
pointed out the drawings

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of Michelangelo to me, and
she pointed out specifically

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that you see all these
marks that he's left here,

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these were the errors,
these were the things

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where he was searching for the right mark

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and then he found the right
line to draw the hand,

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but he didn't have to erase them,

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that was part of the search.

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And it's okay, it's actually
part of the process.

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And so that's when, in fact, she was like,

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"Get rid of your erasers,
in fact, use your eraser

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"to draw, not to get rid of something

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"because if you're
messing up, then at least

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"you're sure that you're
actually making progress

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"to something that can be
better than where you started."

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- It's okay that your idea isn't perfect

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right out of the gate and
it's just about identifying,

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is there something there emotionally

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that is drawing you to it and if there is,

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then there's something
there and you can just keep

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working on it and changing
it, but always remembering

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what was that initial feeling
that drew you to that idea.

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- Ideas really, usually, when
you first come up with them,

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they're kind of more like notions.

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That's kinda in the what
if, what if hmm hmm hmm hmm?

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And then the way you get
to a solid actionable idea

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is that you just keep working on it

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and every time you do a version of it,

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every time you do a pass on
it, you get closer to the idea.

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- It's a lot of hard work
and it takes trial and error

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to get that story right,
because one thing that may

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affect you and you have an
idea, is not necessarily

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going to speak to somebody
else and that's where

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figuring out the best way to
get them out of their head

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and intellectualizing what's
being told them to feeling it

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and getting in touch with
their emotions so that they're

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invested in what's
happening to the character.

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- The good news is that if you love it,

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if you like telling stories,
if you like communicating,

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if you like drawing pictures,
you won't wanna stop,

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that's the great part,
and even if it feels like

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you're not making progress,
you'll see a stack of drawings

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or you'll see a bunch of pieces of paper

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that have your words on them and I mean,

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that's really impressive
because you're making progress,

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so you gotta keep practicing,
it's as simple as that,

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there's no easy way, and
in fact it's really fun

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if you really enjoy it.

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- Hopefully now you have a sense

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of a few what ifs you want to explore

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and some worlds and
characters to go with them.

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And in the next lesson, we'll
dig deeper into developing

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characters and how we
approach that at Pixar.