In the winter of 2012 DreamWorks released a feature animation movie, Rise of the Guardians. When I first saw the trailer I was so confuse because have you guys seen Jack Frost? He is extremely cute, adorable and good looking. I wonder what made the artists at DreamWorks to make him such a pretty boy? Whatever they were thinking they did it right.

I was ever so lucky to stumble upon the Rise of the Guardians fanart contest, it was held for a short period of time before the movie was released. Above is the fanart I did of Jack Frost for the contest. Soon later I found out I was one of the winners and they sent me an autographed art book. That was literally the most exciting part of 2012 for me. I was also able to collect more autographs from the artists that work on the movie at a signing event.

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Hey everyone! Recently I started to sketch again. I forgot how wonderful it feels to just let my pencil glide back and forth onto a blank page. I can just mindlessly let my creativity take me to where it wants to take me. A wonderful feeling that I forgot about.  

I was actually afraid to keep a sketchbook...again. I haven't kept one for years and that is horrible because I'm an artist. I have this mentality where I want all my drawings to be perfect. Lets face it that is not going to happen. For the longest time I couldn't because I am always surrounded by extremely talented artists. They were making perfect drawings confidently on every page of their sketchbook. I have to constantly remind myself that they were once like me. Making bad drawings over thousands of times in order to get to the level they are at today.

I knew that it's a fact but I ignored it. With time comes wisdom and eventually I got over it. I fearlessly started to sketch in my new sketchbook.

All the good, the bad and the ugly.

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