100 Days of Hope, Resilience and Art: Celebrating the 365 Drawing Challenge Anniversary Together!

 

A good person draws attention to his work, his actions and his talent. A great person inspires others to follow in the same footsteps…

At the very end of December, 2025, the overall mood in the JR fan community was pretty much down in the gutter. Everyone felt tired and burned out after over a month of incessant tabloid articles thrown at us with zero actual evidence, no research or substance, but with a ton of loud accusations most people won’t bother to read beyond.

Just like most fans, I was looking for something light-hearted, some content that won’t require rigorous fact-checking and debating.

That’s when I found Yilun (@yilun0404 on Instagram), an incredibly talented, versatile artist from Taiwan, who happened to be a fellow fan! Her earlier works were built on simpler, free-flowing lines that already showed a glimpse of her distinct, eye-catching style. There was a certain passion in the open, unfiltered drafts that resonated with me. It was clear the artist truly cares about the subject of her art, and I wanted to learn more.

Turns out, Yilun isn’t only fun to talk to as a fan, she is an absolute ray of sunshine who always has a kind word to say, who loves with her whole heart and is fearlessly open to the world, choosing to discover all her talents with an energy I will truly never stop admiring (and being a little jelly of, ha-ha)!

As we kept chatting, I could see a budding idea take root in her mind, Yilun wanted to do something. Not only for Jeremy Renner, but for the community and for the RennerVation Foundation, too!

Then came the Alex Honnold Taipei 101 stunt. On January 25, 2026, climber Alex Honnold ascended the 508-meter-high skyscraper in Taiwan with no ropes or any safety gear whatsoever! All for the sake of the experience and good times. Just because he believed he could do it. And that event gave Yilun the perfect idea: an art challenge for the community! And not a regular kind, but a 365-day-long Art Challenge! One drawing to celebrate Jeremy Renner and his charity foundation for every day of a full year!

When I first heard about it, I was absolutely on board with it! A year of hand-drawn content dedicated to one of our favorite actors from a legit artist? Yes, please! And so, it began…

The challenge was launched on February, 2, with a sketch running back to the first days of JR’s recovery following the horrific accident of 2023. Back then, it was hard to believe a man can heal from something like that, and the ICU pics us fans got were as welcome as they were heartbreaking.

Yilun’s sketch didn’t frame that time as a symbol of pressing uncertainty and collective grief. In the eye of the artist, it was the first step on an incredible road to recovery beyond clinical expectations, an inspiring journey of the man’s spirit overpowering physical pain. And that perspective was truly healing to see.

365 Drawing Challenge: Day 1, sketch by Yilun

 

What followed was a stunning and diverse series of drawings and animations dedicated to Jeremy Renner’s resilience, celebration of his recovery, depiction and explanation of the good work done by the RennerVation Foundation and all the people selflessly working to help foster children in Reno, as well as beautiful renderings of different roles played by JR accompanied by thought-provoking descriptions of the character motivations and some movie trivia!

365 Drawing Challenge: Days 8, 13, 66 and 74, sketches by Yilun

 

On Day 11 of the challenge, Yilun’s Art was noticed by Jeremy Renner himself! A truly well-deserved and timely appreciation! More and more fans discovered the challenge, sharing the love and excitement for each new addition to the growing collection!

And Yilun didn’t skip a single day, drawing on the daily basis while working, taking care of her health, spending time with friends and family and even finding time to travel and do charity work! Her dedication went to a whole new level when she refused to take a break and kept drawing with a fractured hand after an accident! And more and more of us were absolutely happy to support her!

The artist used the challenge not only to spread the word about the RennerVation foundation and her favorite actor, though. Yilun spiced up the challenge by experimenting with different art styles (from sketching and cartoons to noir comics and pop art pieces) and different art forms, spending over 10 hours at a time on a drawings and animation installments on some days!

365 Drawing Challenge: Days 80, 84, 85 and 90, sketches by Yilun

 

On Day 19 of the challenge, the Comfort Cases nonprofit organization teamed up with the RennerVation Foundation to provide 400 backpacks with different essentials, blankets and pajamas to foster children, who are often left with actual trash bags as the only means to carry their belongings. The charity event was a gift of care, restoring dignity among those most vulnerable in the community.

Seeing the news of the event, Yilun, who happened to be out with friends that day, began drawing and animating the logos of every organization and public figure supporting the charity effort! She actually drew outdoors at every opportunity, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., for about 10 hours! This resulted in a beautiful animation celebrating the amazing charitable act and all the people who made it happen!

365 Drawing Challenge: Day 19, sketch by Yilun

 

Another high-effort installment came on Day 37. At the time, the RennerVation Foundation teamed up with the Alltroo online fundraising platform for a rally. The donation campaign for the foster youth of Nevada was paired with an awesome contest, giving every donor a chance to win an actual walk-on role in Mayor of Kingstown, season 5!

365 Drawing Challenge: Day 37, animation by Yilun

 

Yilun drew a whopping 92-frame set of drawings for an animation that day, supporting the campaign and spreading the word! And that wasn’t all!

Now, us fans are spread out literally all over the globe, and in cases like this, the majority of us get cut off from the contest part for technical reasons. We can still support the charity, which is nice, but not getting to participate in the full fan experience is kind of a bummer. That’s when Yilun offered to make a personal drawing for anyone donating to the rally! Just screenshot the donation confirmation, give a reference for a picture you’d like to have – and you’ll get a personal, hand-drawn sketch made for you! That way, the rally became a whole lot more fun and inclusive for the whole fan community.

I didn’t miss out on the offer and got the absolute sweetest, most adorable drawing recreating a photo taken by Melody Hoover, an awesome photographer from Nevada who captured multiple iconic Camp RennerVation moments!

 

And every drawing made for the rally donors was not made in any official (funded) collab with the charity. Yilun dedicated her own time and effort to attract more people to the fundraiser, creating a cool interactive fan experience for the global community along the way!

And right now, with so much awesome stuff already happening, we are about to see the Day 100 drawing, the first three-digit milestone of this incredibly multi-faceted and inspiring Art Challenge by the artist who’s long since become a great friend to so many people in the fan community! I can’t wait to see what it would be like, and what new exciting ideas Yilun will come up with!

If you haven’t seen it yet, definitely check out Yilun’s Instagram page: @yilun0404. If you enjoy charity work and happen to be a Jeremy Renner fan, you absolutely won’t regret it!

P.S. Honorable mentions: sometimes Yilun adds little background characters to the sketches and animations, and I can’t finish the article without giving these tiny guys a spot in the limelight (I love them so much!! 😂)

 

Thank you so much for reading, and see you again soon! :)