This is an animated gif of various stages of my progress as I worked to produce an illustration to enter in JazzaStudios' challenge of the month (December 2017), which is themed "Elf Motivation".

I signed most (but not all) of those drafts in the animation. Don't worry if a signature is absent or silly. I did make all of those drafts myself, it's just that sometimes I forgot to sign a draft or decided to be silly about it and then didn't care to change it back.

Here is the finished version in higher resolution:
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/leaf-mautrec/believe-in-your-elf