Hello everyone and welcome to Just Josh Draws. I'm Just Josh and today I was thinking in the spirit of the Christmas holiday that I draw my take on a very familiar character. I want to bring magic and joy to all the kids all over the world every year. Today we're drawing Santa Claus. An interesting piece of information that I learned about Santa Claus or St. Nicholas is that his origin actually stems from what would be called Turkey now, the country. In regards to that I decided to allow history to influence the design as opposed to pop culture completely. For example, a lot of his tweaks that I made to his clothing and armor and everything else is actually inspired by Ottoman Empire soldiers and their type of gambesons and garments that soldiers would have worn. The weapon that Santa Claus wields in his fight against the darkness is actually the North Pole. In my narrative I kind of actually tied his life force to that weapon because essentially when it stuck in the ground all year round it could be absorbing the good wishes and hopes and dreams and innocence of children all year round and gives Santa Claus his ability to stick around. Basically, provide that protection for them. I still wanted Santa Claus to maintain his kind of like lovable, you know, ho ho ho type personality but at the same time he's a little weary. Like he's been doing this fighting this fight for so long and over the years children have gotten more and more exposed to heavy subjects and serious topics earlier and earlier in life so they're losing their innocence that child like hope so his strength is waning and perhaps maybe that's what Krampus is trying to take him out. The inspiration for today's illustration actually came from an older livestream that I did a few years back. I can actually link to it in the video so you guys can check that out if you'd like. So with these last few details this is essentially my tape. I'm Santa Claus, I hope you guys enjoy it. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did please give me a thumbs up. Please consider subscribing to the channel. If you do don't forget to hit that notification bell to be notified anytime that I upload new content to the channel. I also wanted to give you guys a heads up. I am actually a teacher designer but do it for a really long time. I put a lot of different designs up on my own personal website for sale so if you guys are interested in that you can check that out in the link down below. The shirts that sell on the site basically the proceeds would go to taking care of and upkeeping the channel and improving it over time so any of that's really really appreciated. Aside from that I'm really excited to bring more content and I want to thank you guys so much for watching and until next time, good day. Hi, I'm Josh and today to... Hello everyone and welcome to Gin Noop, the spirit of the holidays. If you did, you know, maybe...