Happy New Year 2015

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas last week. Tonight lets have a Happy New Year!

Crayon Practice

The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream~Hans Christian Andersen

1 Day Till Christmas

 

The Snow Queen~Hans Christain Andersen

2 Days Till Christmas

Yesterday was Jack Frost, today is the Snow Queen.

Jack Frost

3 Days Till Christmas

I saved Jack Frost specifically for today in honor of the first day of Winter/Winter Solstice.

 

The background is a bit of a mess, I was trying to use pastels. )X  I also didn't have a lot of time to put this one and yesterday's together,I got busy with family stuff.

 

Krampus (again)

4 Days Till Christmas

 

Returning from my monster drawing from October, its Krampus!

Where Saint Nikolas rewards good children, Krampus punishes bad children.

The Little Drummer Boy

5 Days Till Christmas

The Little Match Girl~Hans Christian Andersen

6 Day Till Christmas

The Little Match Girl technically takes place on New Year's Eve, but when she lights won of her matches she does she a Christmas tree.

 

Ebenezer Scrooge~A Christmas Carol

7 Days Till Christmas

 

Frosty the Snowman

8 Days Till Christmas 

I like Frosty and all though when I was a very little kid I remember seeing trailers for the movie Jack Frost. A movie where a father dies and comes back as a snowman. Though the trailers show a snowman coming to life and it scared the crap out me. That winter when I went to my Uncle and Aunts cabin and we made a snowman, I afraid it was going to come to life.

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

9 Days Till Christmas

 I got some white-out in some areas obviously, it ended up messing up my coloring. 

I actually based this nutcracker on my own nutcracker. I got it from St. Nicholas when I was a little kid.  The thing actually used to scare me, not sure why.

The Gingerbread Man

10 Days Till Christmas

 

The Elves and the Shoemaker~The Brothers Grimm

11 Days Till Christmas 

 

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.

12 Days Till Christmas 

Starting off my Christmas Countdown I have draw Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. In case you didn't know, earlier this month (December 6) was the 50th anniversary of the Rankin/Bass TV special. My dad and I celebrated by watching the special as we decorated our Christmas tree. 

12 days till Christmas Countdown

Back in October, my Illustration teacher had us draw a monsters everyday for the mouth. Which has inspired me to do a similar thing with Christmas , with some altercations. Such as having only drawing for the days leading up to Christmas eve and instead of monsters I will be drawing those classic Christmas characters that everyone thinks of when they think of Christmas. Though I am trying to stick with characters that originated from stories or songs, instead of characters that originated from movies, like Jack Skeleton from the Nightmare Before Christmas and Gismo from Gremlins. Let's begin!