I tried out some new settings on the Brushes app to make this drawing of a ginkgo leaf and another leaf, which I’m not sure of the name. But the ginkgo leaves seem to hold on the longest to their trees in my neighborhood. When the ginkgo leaves start to disappear I know it’s coming to the end of the year. So, here’s to new beginnings.

Happy New Year!

Happy 2012!

Margaret Hurst

I came across this drawing I made of my son when he was still a little baby in his rocker. All the best wishes for a healthy happy and prosperous 2012. -Despina

I can’t remember where i was heading, just that I had time to make a drawing as I waited to board. -Greg

With all the heightened energy this week and busy-ness the season brings, it’s feels good to take a minute, just hang back and people watch, (with line that is). You might be surprised what you find.

 Happy New Year!

May new opportunity and creative adventures flourish for you in 2012! – Michele

Sometimes once is never enough. —Dominick

Drawings of men wrestling at a club in the lower east side, NY.

Eddie Peña

Best wishes for a happy holiday season and peaceful 2012 to every one of our readers! Here’s to more One Drawing A Day in the year to come.

posted by Veronica Lawlor

I’m thinking of the upcoming holidays and enjoying glasses of champagne a lovely party with friends, so I chose the artwork created for Henri’s Reserve.

Happy People

Happy Holidays!

Margaret Hurst

…for the holidays.  -Despina

I’ve been doing some work in New York City these last few weeks and have made a few drawings of the “happy” commuters. Here are two.

If you’d like to see more, check out my blog where there is a series of these drawings. -Greg Betza

Happy Chanukah! – and the warmest regards for a blessed holiday season, Michele

Wishing everyone a Very Merry Christmas and  joyful holiday season.—Dominick

Studies for project:  Earth vs Humans

Those who know me and my work will recognize the theme of the garden as a metaphor for paradise (home). I remember eating strawberries, gooseberries, currants, plums, peaches, apples and hazelnuts directly from the bush as a kid playing at our garden at #28. This page is part of an ongoing project on the history of feminism (notice the woman busy working the earth). It also makes me want to start a victory garden and eat freshly-harvested collard greens.

-Kati Nawrocki

This is an Indian tiger that I illustrated recently for a newsletter for A&K luxury travel. I did several illustrations for them, but I especially enjoyed doing the tiger. I was thinking when I did it of the Jungle Book and the version I had as a child, illustrated by Aldren Watson. Rich, luscious watercolors that really brought the story to life for me. I wanted to get that lush feeling in the jungle behind the tiger…

posted by Veronica Lawlor

Check out our new Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/groups/onedrawingaday/

You can do the exercises in our One Drawing A Day book and post them, for feedback from our Studio 1482 illustrators and other One Drawing A Day participants! Don McNulty has been posting regularly – great work, Don!

I was experimenting with patterned  fantasy landscapes some time ago. I was thinking about vineyard landscapes and chess board landscapes and tree trunk landscapes and…

Margaret Hurst

This frame is from a storyboard I created about St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.

-Despina

Here is a drawing made from a model a few weeks ago at the Dalvero Academy.

©2011 Greg Betza

..there was a girl who dreamt of castles and pageantry. She learned to discover it really does exist!

…and it’s magical. Above is a page from my sketchbook of a few thumbnails of the carousel (and company) in the Magic Kingdom. - Michele