The idea of art that is derived from real life is something that is not at all original and this is often called figurative art. This article will be dedicated to figurative art that is a simple enough as a concept but is difficult to do. This is because there is not only a difference in the way an interpretation of the object that each artist has, but it is pretty difficult to capture the essence of something on a canvas or sculpture. The first thing that is to be considered when you are going for figurative art ideas is to decide on the medium that you are going to use, which could be in the form of painting or sculpting or some other means. The logical choice would point at sculpting as it is three dimensional and can create an astonishing impact as you will realize when you look at astonishingly life like figurative sculptures. While figurative art may have a completely different impact when you weave your own kind of magic with mythical animal art, but it is striking nevertheless.