JANUARY CONTEST: The tracks in the snow were unlike anything Will had ever seen before.

[Harley Dwortz]

@chrisaakins I actually feel scared. Awesome!

[demotlj]

@jdubz I'm mostly having difficulty getting the values as dark as I would like and manipulating my brush well enough to get finer details. (And of course, there is the Undo of digital which is great.) Basically, I'm still enough of a novice at watercolor that my patience with it is less than my patience at the iPad. Nevertheless, I like the look of traditional and when it's going well, I like the feel of working with real materials, so I persist!

[artbytra]

Good to be back! Here's my submission. A bit gloomy one from what I usually do, fitting for January though I think! Digital. -Todd

[Coley]

calling it done and moving on

[xin li]

@BichonBistro I would not be able to do this without photoshop "transform->distort" tool, especially for the dragon and shadows of kids. I think I redrew that about 10 times.

[Laurasketches]

Snow angels... making tracks in the clouds.. I mean snow...
http://www.instagram.com/misslaurabalmaceda/

[lmrush]

NIce entries, good luck everyone!

[Suji Park]

Everyone did an amazing job for this month! I've had some crazy ideas in the beginning, but I ended up with this quiet scenery

[Melanie Ortins]

@carlianne super cute!

[Melanie Ortins]

@xin-li cool concept and beautiful illustration!

[Aaron_T]

@BichonBistro Thanks! Had some fun with this one.

[Jessica Jolicoeur]

Hi everyone,

I am really enjoying the challenge of creating a piece from a specific font.
It is a nice way to get some experience creating an image from parameters that have been created by someone else as it would be if you were in a working relationship with a client.

And I love to see everyone's submissions as well.

Goodluck everyone!

[artwithashley]

As always so enjoyable to see what everyone comes up with. This month I wanted to try the piece traditionally as well as digitally to see what I liked and didn't like with both mediums. Annnnd this is were I landed.

[xin li]

@Kali thank you so much.
@Coley Your little demo of explaining the shadow for me was super helpful. I redrew the whole dragon after seen your demo. Now the dragon looks much more like imprinted into the snow.

[Miriam]

@CLCanadyArts Wow, the expression on the boy's face is great!

[Miriam]

@xin-li This is amazing!

[Coley]

@xin-li no problem, it's nice to know it was helpful and appreciated, thanks SVS has such helpful people a wonderful place to hang out!

[chrisaakins]

Here is my resubmission. I think it is a better concept.
William Shakespeare wrote about a walking wood in Macbeth. Maybe he got the idea from a real encounter with a walking tree that left funny tracks in the snow.

[Elena Marengoni]

Here is my entry for this month, which I turned into a book spread! I had a lot of fun with this one!

[LauraA]

I learned a lesson on this one: Don't spend a week drawing fox studies for foxes that you're going to eliminate. Composition (story) comes first!

Thanks for doing these prompts and contests, guys! They really are testing my ideas and skills, and slowly, I'm building a process that has some consistency, even though the "medium" varies.

And I really hand it to all my fellow artists who came up with such creative takes on this prompt!

I just changed out my entry for a version with my name on it. I hope that's ok. It's exactly the same artwork but I keep forgetting to include my name!