Hi there!
What is your favourite festivity time? Mine is Christmas for sure.
This is a bittersweet time of the year for me: I love the magic you can feel in the air, the preparation of the Advent, the calendar, the Christmas tree and home decoration, the sweets you can eat almost without control *yes! But for contrast you know that day 25 will come very soon, this year I feel the pressure of living this period at my very best every single day from 1 to the end of Christmas time.
I spent the last days of November in coziness and sofa after dinner, watching Netflix series while knitting.
I can’t recommend enough you to watch WEDNESDAY directed by Tim Burton and THE SANDMAN from a novel of the genius Neal Gaiman.
All that had an impact on my creativity and I couldn't resist to draw a fan art / non fiction illustration card.
I appreciated Jenna Ortega role playing so much, and if you, as me, have a teen or a pre-teen at home, probably you have recognised her as the shop a holic friend in the TV series Richy Rich.
Christmas is also a wonderful inspiration time for picture books. Have you some favourite novels on this time of the year?
I do love some very classics, and my most loved novel is “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens and also “The Taylor of Gloucester” by Beatrix Potter.
I wish to draw more Xmas scenes this year, so I joined the Advent Challenge held by Ema Malyauka on Instagram. For the first week of December I did the following illustration. I love so much how it turned out and the vintage feeling it took.
I draw first a sketch in graphite and then I redraw it digitally on procreate, finishing the colour laying on photoshop.
Since I haven’t holiday for Christmas as always, I will make the most from those magical days and this year I’ll write intentions and wishes out loud that I hope became true in 2023.
So, since next post I wish you all the best and if you would like to tell me how do you’re going to spend this advent time let me know down below or drop me a line. I’ll be happy to read and write you back.
Xoxo Jdeebella