Haha, good one! Nails the prompt perfectly too!!

today I worked on facial expressions and another new santa, inking practice and decided to color one of my other santas in photoshop for photoshop practice. a bit of fun again lol. They make me smile

@Ash-Weaver this seems pretty cool. I am not sure how to get the generator to work? I'm a bit technologically clueless so that could be it ha ha!!!!

@Shara-Mills ah, wow, thanks

for the expressions, I initally had them looking frightened but it seemed a bit too scary, so I made them happy, I'll work for something in between!

I'm actually considering starting over another new one lol! Will see what happens, I had another idea. But maybe I'll end up doing both (submitting only one of course lol).

@Annemieke you mentioned cultural differences and I think you're right, I'm a north american and I can see how the toilet thing was brought up. But I follow a Norwegian illustrator who throws in little bits of nudity or things we would consider inappropriate but she's a very successful children's illustrator (Lisa Aisato) WOW she's amazing!

I'm picking away at the children's illustration course part 1 and some of the homework was creating dramatic gestures in your characters. I started doing a santa a day, they've gotten so much better! I have them numbered in order, started top right and looping counter clockwise. This practice stuff really works I might use some of these in inktober as my inktober sketches were getting too complicated!

@burvantill I felt the same way after doing that class! Total breakthrough!

I did some more drawing and enlarged the kid characters, added a dragon mouth looking down, changed some of the gestures so they're less scared and more happy. hopefully they are happy shocked not just happy? i need to put some things in on the right side and the little girl will have combat boots to contrast with the dressy and ponytail etc. Chalkboard will say " Show and Tell" or something like that. I was going to try to ink it and then scan and then throw back in photoshop but it's evolving. I'm not sure it's the best concept actually and thinking about starting over with something else totally different, but I'm sure there's merit to staying the course as well...........a bit torn but keeping on!

@chrisaakins this is really nice. Thanks for the tip on throwing some paint down. Great idea.

@Lee-White this is making me feel a LOT better today!