History Main / LivingDrawing

* LivingDrawing: Peter drew him in the mud and out he popped.A little humanoid that Peter made out of mud when he was annoyed by Judy's bossy attitude and somehow came to life.

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* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has Gecko Moriah's painting zombies, which are zombies created to look like portraits and paintings, some of which [[ArtImitatesArt look like real life paintings]].
** Additionally, the Dressrosa arc introduces two more art-based devil fruit users. Giolla on the villain's side possesses the Ato Ato no Mi, literally the art art fruit, which can turn anyone or anything into various works of art rendering them powerless in the process. On the heroes' side, we have Kanjuro who has an unnamed devil fruit that allows him to bring his drawing to life... though ironically he is an atrocious artist.
* Beethoven's portrait is [[TheSevenMysteries one of the ghosts]] in ''Manga/HauntedJunction''. It cries TearsOfBlood.
* In the tenth episode of the sixth series of ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'', the focus is on the Seven Mysteries at Mana's school. Among them is Beethoven's portrait. The Mysteries get taken prisoner by one of them, Yousuke, [[StalkerWithACrush who is after Hanako]]. The protagonists defeat him and and allow the Mysteries to return to their parts of the school.
* In the sixth episode of ''Manga/LoveTyrant'', the protagonists visit a school building at night. They are harrassed by the local spirits, among which a painting of Bach, but Guri and Akane beat them into a pulp.

* One story in ''ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks'' concerned a trio of StupidCrooks robbing a museum at night, and deciding that the Hieronymous-Boschian painting contained behind steel bars must be the most valuable item. It turns out to be a ravenous monster that disguises itself as a painting to lure in victims. The bars are not to protect the painting from people, but to protect people from the painting.

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* ''Anime/AfterSchoolMidnighters'': Four living paintings of famous composers make up one set of midnighters at St. Claire Elementary. They are Music/JohannSebastianBach, who won't let a chance go unused to call himself the Father of Music, Music/LudwigVanBeethoven, who is the passionate one, Music/FranzSchubert, TheQuietOne, and Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart, the young CloudCuckoolander. The protagonist trio generally knows little of their music, amusing Mozart and deeply angering Beethoven. The challenge the group sets for the girls is to compose a work that impresses them. Miko, who has a high class upbringing, wants to take it, but the midnighters are the ones who pick the challengers and they choose Mutsuko. By coincidence, her fly escapes and rests on the piano's keys. In trying to recapture it, she smashes hard on one of the keys. This display of minimalism is heralded by the paintings and they concede defeat.

* In ''Beauty And The Beast (1987)'', Beauty accidentally wishes for the paintings of entertainers to come to life, which they subsequently do. This makes her understand that when she was told she can have everything she asks for (except freedom), that honest-to-goodness meant any wish or command of hers will be answered by the castle's magic.

* Paintings and pictures in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series can talk and even move into other paintings. [[AllThereInTheManual According to Pottermore,]] the degree to which they can interact with the real world depends on the power of the wizard or witch in the picture. This is seen as a fact of life to the magical community, to the point that Ron is surprised when he sees a sports poster brought by [[MageBornOfMuggles Muggleborn]] Dean Thomas. One of the most notable is the fat lady who acts like a gatekeeper to the Gryffindor dormitory.

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer Fear Her]]”, the MonsterOfTheWeek, an Isolus, is able to turn real people into these. Kids on the street, pets, entire crowds at a stadium, even the Doctor and the TARDIS, all turn into graphite pictures drawn on paper and all of them are still alive. Conversely, a random scribble becomes an animated three-dimensional entity.

* ''Series/McGeeAndMe'' is about 11-year-old Nicholas Martin [[ABoyAndHisX and his six-inch-tall cartoon character, McGee]].

* In the video for "Take On Me" by {{Music/aha}}, a woman gets sucked into a comic book and falls in love with the protagonist. When they are menaced by the villains, he gets her to escape back to the real world. Some time later, he finds a way to the real world for himself, a far more arduous process, and reunites with the woman.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': ''Trompe L'oeil'' paintings are magically-enhanced copies of an original creature that can step off the canvas, assume solid three-dimensional forms, and even inhabit other paintings. These entities can only be permanently killed by destroying the painting that generates them.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', the titular character creates a world using special crayons in an endless blank space behind his bedroom. The citizens are all living beings.

* Splatter Phoenix from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' was an art thief who used her powers to ransom works of art and could move through paintings to circumvent museum security (revealing the painting to be alive inside the frame when chased). When she stole the Mona Lisa's smile, the lips became animated in the real world, even helping to exonerate one of the people she'd framed for her heist. She met her end when the heroes splashed turpentine on her accidentally, causing her to melt and hinting that she herself was a living painting.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Breaking Out is Hard to Do", a parody of "Take On Me" by {{Music/aha}} occurs when Chris is pulled into a comic book world through the shelf with milk. He escapes on his own, being rather distraught about the weird place he'd been taken to.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The Mystery Shack's copy machine in "Double Dipper" can do the regular copying work, but if one is to scan living items, the copy machine will create a living copy, even if [[BodyHorror it's just a body part]]. The clones start off as flat paper and then pop into 3-dimensional form, which retains at least one trait of its paper origin: a [[LogicalWeakness vulnerability to liquids]]. Dipper uses the machine to create a CloneArmy of himself to woo Wendy, but he has to destroy most of them when they rebel against him. Only #3 and #4 survive the ordeal. The original #4, known as Paper Jam Dipper, is the result of one piece of paper getting stuck during the copying process and the clone it produces is deformed and incapable of normal speech.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheThreeCaballeros'': The Nazca Lines in "Nazca Racing" are drawn in enchanted soil, which is a gateway into the Nazca Realm. The Nazca Realm is one big living drawing. The reality created from drawing is the only magic that exists there and the inhabitants themselves exist as Nazca Lines on the surface. The inhabitants can only move across surfaces, can only leave through their respective Nazca Lines, and are killed if their Lines are erased, although redrawing them will resurrect them none the worse for wear. The Caballeros meet Mono, a mokey, Handsy, a giant, and Clementine, a huge spider. They guard the Nazco Gyroscope that keeps the planet balanced. Feldrake uses it to lure the Caballeros into the Nazca Realm with the intent to erase their Lines on the surface in order to kill them, but he only succeeds in erasing Handsy. She is restored when the Caballeros redraw her, with Donald gifting her a much desired second thumb.
* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'': The extended witch family of Hydia shows up in ''My Little Pony: The Movie'' and "The End of Flutter Valley" as paintings. In the movie, they are depicted in scenarios that become animated and interact with Reeka and Draggle. In the multiparter, they step out of their paintings on Hydia's request to come up with a plan to destroy the flutterponies.
* The British cartoon ''Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings'' is the spiritual predecessor to ''[=ChalkZone=]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Frankendoodle", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick find a magic pencil that [[ArtInitiatesLife creates real objects out of their drawings]]. When [=SpongeBob=] uses it to make a self-portrait, the result is the evil "[=DoodleBob=]", who is eventually defeated by being trapped in a piece of paper.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Designs on Jerry", the mouse on Tom's blueprint comes to life and interacts with Jerry while Tom sleeps.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePainting'' (Le Tableau) is set in the world inside an artist's unfinished painting and features the characters traveling through several other works of art on a quest to get their creator to finish his work.

* ''Film/GakkouNoKaidan'': Shouta and Kaori hide from the ghosts in the music room of the OldSchoolBuilding. Shouta decides this is a good moment to confess his feelings to Kaori, but as he stumbles over his words Beethoven and other musicians emerge from the paintings and start to play music. They do this to help out Shouta's romantic attempt, but at least he doesn't get that and the two children make a run for it. In Shouta's defense, Beethoven looked positively horrifying.

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer Fear Her]]”, the MonsterOfTheWeek, an Isolus, is able to turn real people into these. Kids on the street, pets, entire crowds at a stadium, even the Doctor and the TARDIS, all turn into graphite pictures drawn on paper and all of them are still alive.

* ''Series/McGeeAndMee'' is about 11-year-old Nicholas Martin [[ABoyAndHisX and his six-inch-tall cartoon character, McGee]].

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer Fear Her]]”, the MonsterOfTheWeek, an Isolus, is able to turn real people into these. Kids on the street, pets, entire crowds at a stadium, even the Doctor and TARDIS, all turn into graphite pictures drawn on paper and all of them still alive.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': ''Trompe L'oeil'' paintings are magically-enhanced copies of an original creature that can step off the canvas, assume solid three-dimensional forms, and even inhabit other paintings. These entities can only be permanently killed by destroying the painting that generates them.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Frankendoodle", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick find a magic pencil that [[ArtImitatesLife creates real objects out of their drawings]]. When [=SpongeBob=] uses it to make a self-portrait, the result is the evil "[=DoodleBob=]", who is eventually defeated by being trapped in a piece of paper.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has Gecko Moriah's painting zombies, which are zombies created to look like portraits and paintings, some of which look to be [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to real life paintings.

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* ''ComicBook/DouweDabbert'': The story "De dame in de lijst" (the lady in the frame) features several living paintings of long-dead wizards, including the titular lady. She can leave her portrait for short amounds of time, and can still use magic. At the end of the story, she makes a living portrait of Douwe since she grew fond of his company. This way, "Douwe" can stay with her while the real Douwe continues his travels.

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* Paintings and pictures in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series can talk and even move into other paintings. [[AllThereInTheManual According to Pottermore,]] the degree to which they can interact with the real world depends on the power of the wizard or witch in the picture. This is seen as a fact of life to the magical community, to the point that Ron is surprised when he sees a sports poster brought by [[MageBornOfMuggles Muggleborn]] Dean Thomas. One of the most notable is the fat lady who acts like a gatekeeper to the Gryffindor dormitory.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': ''Trompe L'oeil'' paintings are magically-enhanced copies of an original creature that can step off the canvas, assume solid three-dimensional forms, and even inhabit other paintings. These entities can only be permanently killed by destroying the painting that generates them.

* In one episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Chowder}}'', the titular character creates a world using special crayons in an endless blank space behind his bedroom. The citizens are all living beings.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Frankendoodle", Spongebob and Patrick find a magic pencil that [[ArtImitatesLife creates real objects out of their drawings]]. When Spongebob uses it to make a self-portrait, the result is the evil "Doodlebob", who is eventually defeated by being trapped in a piece of paper.