And The Winner Is... Kyle Hollingsworth!

The winner for the "Elves" challenge is:

Kyle-Creative!

Congratulations to Kyle Hollingsworth. I chose Kyle's "Elf-spiration" as the winner for the Elves challenge. Kyle has a magical style, well rendered and meticulously colored. Check out more of her work and her shop!

Fantastic elves, everyone! As always, the hardest thing I do on this blog is choosing a winner. So many of you deserved to win.

Elves

A Mouse in the House

Hot Elf Packing Crunches!

Who says elves can't be beautiful? Here's one assigned in the packaging department. She's definitely doing her thing!

bella's squishy noodles

Kleeber Cookies

Where do you think those Kleeber cookies come from?

More Elfin Magic.

©2009 Barry/Right-Hemisphere Laboratory

Elves

I made this illustration for a Christmas Children's book, which was published 2 years ago. I hope you enjoy it.
Click on the image for a better view.

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The Bad Loser: Elves

"Tottletwot hated losing at chess almost as much as he hated rats. He was that kind of elf."

Illustrator: Andrew Finnie: From "The Adventures of Tottletwot and Other Stories." Catch me here.   Click for large if you like.

Elves Wanted

A visit from the Ghost of Christmas Cards Past.

This one goes back almost 20 years – it was my first greeting card sale. The landscape version was a postcard I sent out as a direct-mail promo. I was contacted about a week later by a greeting card company wanting to buy it. I was pretty psyched to make the sale, but then I found out I would have to reformat it to portrait – it drove me crazy trying to recompose all of those elements (Elvises), and took longer than the original drawing. The greeting card company got a cease-and-desist from the Elvis estate, but fought back, reached a compromise, and the card stayed in print for about 10 years. I only have the inks, but the printed greeting-card was in color. I thought about re-colorizing it, but my style's changed a lot over the years... maybe it's time to just redraw this one.

Have a Hunka Burnin' Holiday!

©1992 Barry/Right-Hemisphere Laboratory

Mallory the Elf

 

     Listening to a special song.

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Dammit! I think I read that challenge wrong...

New Challenge - Elves!

The new challenge is:

Elves!

Illustrate an elf or two. Santa's elves? Legolas? What'll it be?

The "Gratitude" challenge is over. The new challenge is "Elves" and ends on December 14, 2009. The "Feast" challenge continues for another week ends on December 7, 2009.

The "Feast" challenge (last week's challenge) winner will receive an actual prize! The prize will be appropriate to the winner, taking location and artist's style into account. You have 1 week left before judging (December 7, 2009).