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* Both Oodle the Doodle and Tivo from ''WebAnimation/AnimatedInanimateBattle are this, though the latter's sentience is ambiguous even to Oodle himself.

* ''VideoGame/EchoSecretsOfTheLostCavern'' has plenty of cave drawings that move about like they were alive. This is justified InUniverse as the spirits communicating with [[TheProtagonist Arok]] through paintings.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Runerigus, a Ghost/Ground type Pokemon which evolves from a Galarian Yamask, is actually a cursed painting which gained sentience after absorbing the Yamask's spirit. It resembles a drawing of a red serpent on a rock formation with a shadowy spirit inside of it.

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* After his death, Aaron Covenant of ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'' gains the ability to create monsters by painting them. He demonstrates this power once in his studio by painting a Big Monto Shonoi and then siccing it on Patrick when it steps out of the canvas.

** 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.

* The original name for ''Aztec Adventure'' is ''Nazca '88: The Golden Road to Paradise'', which makes it much more logical that the final boss is Nazca Line bird. Unlike the prior Nazca Line drawings, which aren't alive, the final boss is done pink lines. Its body is static and it moves and elongates its neck to peck at Nino.

* ''Film/It2017'': One of the forms assumed by IT is that of Judith, from a painting known as ''The Flute Player''. [[note]]The in-movie painting is based on the real-world works of Amedeo Modigliani.[[/note]] Judith is a crooked, elongated human figure whose deformed appearance terrifies the painting's owner's son, Stan Uris. IT uses Judith specifically to terrorize Stan, adding MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily and the ability to extend her gums beyond her lips to the 3-dimensional version.

* ''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.

* There are seveeral living drawings among the enemies encountered in the ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'' games.

** Also found in ''[=EarthBound=]' is the Abstract Art class of enemy. These are found in Moonside and fittingly depict moon-headed people. They can cast Hypnosis, but aren't dangerous and may be missed altogether.

* ''Anime/ArabianNightsAdventuresOfSinbad'': An unusual instance occurs in the episode "Thief of the Pyramids". Within a pyramid, there lies a treasure room with healing and restoring properties. The walls of the treasure room are decorated (either painted or in-laid) with the imagery of all kinds of plants. If anyone tries to take the treasures from the room, the plants wither and disappear, activating a deadly trap. Once the trap has run its course, the plants reappear and bloom.

* In Korea, it's common for schools to have a portrait of Ryu Gwan-Sun on display. At age 16, she was an organizer of the March 1st Movement against the Japanese occupation. She was imprisoned, tortured, and died in 1920 at age 17, never giving up on the fight. A symbol due to her young age, her portrait'ss reoccurrence is to inspire the students to heroism like hers. The ghost story regarding it is that every March 1st, if you stand in front of her portrait and call out to her by name, the portrait will fix its gaze on you.

* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'': In the Pyramid, some of the enemies encountered include Lethal Asp Hieroglyphs and Guardian Hieroglyphs, which are sentient drawings in the shape of snakes and anthropomorphic canines resembling the god Anubis, respectively.

* ''WesternAnimation/SimonInTheLandOfChalkDrawings2002'' is the spiritual predecessor to ''[=ChalkZone=]''. The denizens of the titular land are living chalk drawings, and Simon can add new things to said land by drawing on his chalkboard at home.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyCanvasCurse'': It's revealed at the end that Drawcia, the witch who turns all of Dream Land to paint, is actually a painting herself, having escaped from her frame. At the end of the game, she is sucked back into her frame, sealing her away.

* The mid-boss of the Haunted House in ''[[VideoGame/DisneysMagicalQuest The Great Circus Mystery]]'' is Pete's Portrait, which depict Emperor Pete, the final boss of the previous game. The painting is in sepia tones at first, then gains color when the candles light up. He's got two means of attack. Firstly, he can cause the books from the surrounding book cases to fly at the player. Secondly, he can breathe fire because he's placed above a fireplace. Both moves require Pete to lean out of the canvas, which makes him vulnerable. When beaten, the painting returns to its sepia tones, but Emperor Pete is visibly injured.

* The mid-boss of Stage 4 of ''VideoGame/MagicalPopN'' combines Living Drawing with a {{Snowlem}}. Inside the boss room hangs an apparently haunted painting of a regal snowman. As Princess enters, his minions put together a snowman. Once complete, the painting's eyes flash and the newly made snowman takes on the painting's visage and comes to life.

* The mid-boss of the Haunted House in ''VideoGame/DisneysMagicalQuest The Great Circus Mystery'' is Pete's Portrait, which depict Emperor Pete, the final boss of the previous game. The painting is in sepia tones at first, then gains color when the candles light up. He's got two means of attack. Firstly, he can cause the books from the surrounding book cases to fly at the player. Secondly, he can breathe fire because he's placed above a fireplace. Both moves require Pete to lean out of the canvas, which makes him vulnerable. When beaten, the painting returns to its sepia tones, but Emperor Pete is visibly injured.

Subtrope of AnomalousArt. Compare LivingStatue, CreepyChangingPainting, SpookyPainting and LivingShadow.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E14WelcomeToTheChumBucketFrankendoodle 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.

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