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Hello!

So at exactly this time last year I decided to set myself a drawing challenge in the lead up to Christmas (because I figured this time of year isn't busy enough).

Taking cues from one of Jake’s old Inktober projects I decided to use the 24 day buildup to Christmas to tell a story (I ended up doing 25 in the end). I wasn't allowed to have any description- just pictures. I posted one drawing a day like a sort of drawing advent calendar.

The focus was to try to improve my story telling skills rather than my drawing specifically (though hopefully it would also have some improvement on my drawing!) I had a very rough plan of where I was going with the story mapped out but it actually changed quite a bit as I had new ideas along the way.

I found the whole thing a really good learning experience and so I’m going to do it again this year and will be posting the first one on here and on my Instagram once I've drawn it a little later today.

I tried (in vain) to think of a catchy name/hashtag like #Drawcember or the even more tenuous #eventcalendar (because stories have events in them!?) So if anyone’s got any suggestions that would be great!

It would be amazing to see what other people do with this so if anyone wants to jump on board please do! #Christmasstoryadventcalendarthing

Here’s the link to last year’s if anyone wants to take a look:

https://www.jonathandrawsstuff.com/stories/#/christmas-2016/

Here's day 7!

Day 2!

Here's day 3!

Day 9!

It was a bit of a squeeze getting it done on Christmas day but here's the last one!

Hey everyone!

I’ve been an SVS member for just under a year now but haven’t really ventured into forumsville until now.

I’ve been working on a whole bunch of stuff and am looking to get some critical feedback on some illustrations I’ve been doing for a children’s book I’ve written. I feel like the thing I find most difficult is rendering with colour but any feedback at all would be very welcome- composition, characters, literally anything!

Thanks!

Hey everyone, I've done a few more little tweaks to the ghost image and think I'm going to call it done on that one resists strong urge to go back and keep editing it till the end of time. I've also been rendering another few of pages from the book- On the "wheeze" page, looking at it now, I think it would have been better to have him looking like he's actually trying to roar rather than just shivering so I might go back and edit that little bit.

Here we go- Day 1!

As ever critiques are always welcome!

Here's day 6!

Day 8!

A bit of a struggle to fit this one in today but here's day 10!

Hey everyone!

I’ve been subscribed to SVS for a while now and never really ventured on here properly, but I’m really wanting to get more involved in the SVS community!

I’m an illustrator based in Sheffield, UK.

I found SVS by randomly finding Jake then Will on YouTube in my ongoing endeavours to improve at my craft. Really looking forward to getting more involved on here!

Peace out!

• Also, probably should have mentioned, my name's Jonathan!

Day 14

Here's day 16!

Day 19!

@chip-valecek Thanks! I totally see what you mean about the ghost. Now that you've pointed it out it doesn't look right at all. Thanks for the suggestions I'll give them ago!

@ben-migliore Hi! Thanks so much! Just checked out your stuff, absolutely love it!

@jasonandroosmith Hey! Thanks a lot! Follow you right back :D

Hey @aska! First off, I think these are great, I especially love the foxes. The character of the animals really shines through in each of the drawings. Just a minor thing I can see in the wolf image- I think, for me, as they are bunched closely together at fist glance the forms kind of blend together then when you look at the detail you can make them out better. Maybe by adding some shadow/ highlight around the edges like you've done with the bears it might help to define them more and help them really pop? (Hope that makes sense!?) But as I said before I think the character in these is really strong and you get a great sense of them playing together :D