Hi! This is my entry. I had a lot of fun! I wanted to push myself out into more characters, and their interactions, along with pushing gesture with shapes. I hope you like it.

However can someone help me -when I try to resize my canvas/image to upload it here, my image becomes very blurry. How can I get around this? I also had to scan so the image is not as it should be (value/pencil and colour) but I hope to get proper lights in the future.

“Everyone was having a great time at the Halloween feast until Mr. Wolf splattered pumpkin pie onto Mr. Pig. Mrs. Wolf was not happy! Mr. Pig laughed.” -Heather Boyd

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Ginkgo Overcomes Godzilla

Edited and thanks to everyone who helped. My computer screen still looks better than my Ipad -what can you do (shrug).

Isolation comes in many different forms. and for all submissions.

LOVE is completed. lols But real love keeps on going.
I hope you guys enjoy - I learned not to fight against myself - I like outlines -so I will pursue this route in the future.

This reindeer is one of those types of friends that will go to many lengths to love and enjoy the company of his friends.
After pulling along his hedgehog friends, he sinks down into the snow to rest.

I am very proud of this short 2 day work, especially when the candy cane looks like I could eat it. I had not intended to go realistic but when I add shadow and light it always seem to turn out that way. I just love looking at it and it reminds me of drinking it up. And I saw those bubbles and I just had to try and paint them.

Irish Superstition: To stave off sorrow a solo magpie brings to its passerby, another brings joy.

I am very happy how this turned out. The subject matter is very close to my heart this past year. I hope you like it.

So this is what I have been up to. With the aid of Shapes 2D, Drawing Fundamentals with Dave Malan. I have used a single reference but it is for practise. 6 animals and working on 6 objects this week. I plan to do 6 people/portraits and 6 environments. Then I will move on to Shapes 3D and repeat.

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Heather B.

This was done in carbon paper transfer, watercolour and pencil (and only digital to adjust colour/contrast issue because my image was larger than my scanner, so it didn't scan exactly). I have become so accustomed to digital in being able to zoom in and add detail that I was unprepared to design this way, however thanks to @demotlj and @burvantill who so kindly helped me out, I was able to adjust things at the end. I still have lots of improving to go.

This work was inspired by the thought that only from earth's perspective do stars fall across the heavens. Also I wanted to tell a story about this adventurer kid who imagines steering his sights to the greater unknown.

The first sheet of daily shapes - roughly one a day. Pencil and pencil crayons.

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Friday and today I worked on two small master studies. The originals probably were done digitally and may not have been pastel but I am just really loving pastel pencils and wanted to do these adorable foxes to practise applying technique and mixing colours. I am using a 12 pack of Faber-Castell pastel pencils which requires more colour mixing to try to get the right colour. I have also been feeling my work up until now has lacked the lustre of atmosphere so I found some watercolour work that had beautiful blends and wanted to try them out with pastel pencils; I did so (not shown here). Soft blends make me go all warm and gushy inside. Anyways, I am very happy with all of it!

*Edited note: my copies appear blurry I think because of my scanning -I'll work on that. Thanks

@Braden-Hallett Did you complete this and hand it in?

@lisanganart Really cute story. My aunt is patching up some sweaters of mine -reminded me of her kindness.

@doro_thea Thanks for being brave enough to post. I enjoy your work.

@Rachel-Horne So happy someone did a work like this showing what it was like before Covid. I know their probably were others so apologies. This is so warm and cheery thanks.

@ArtofAleksey Hello!!! Nice to see you post again. Thanks for sharing your year with us. Curious of the watercolours you loved why did you like those over the others that you didn't?

Hey! Welcome to the community. I really like the graphic texture of your front cover and the colours also.

@xin-li Now I want this book for myself.

@Chip-Valecek Would it be in poor taste if I resubmitted my October work here too because it fits, probably better too than for Halloween? I normally wouldn't consider it otherwise. Anyways just let me know if there's a regulation against it or if the instructors/judges would frown upon it, let alone everyone here. I don't want that. Thanks

@NessIllustration sweet. Following and looking forward to it.

@LauraA Hello Laura. You've done quite a bit of work so I am a bit squeamish to bring this up because it may just be me: having Mrs. Beaver coming right behind Peter's (behind) is a bit comfortable for me. Mrs. Beaver's legs are also at the extact tangent to Peter's top of his stool. I did not comment on earlier stages and I am not necessarily sure how I'd fix it unless you move her (Mrs. Beaver) further up or Peter further down because there's a cooking oven above in the corner of the floor that might make things squishy also.

I really like how you have Edmund eyeing the door out without even having to show a door.