Christmas Card Commission (2009)

Christmas is usually the busiest time of the year – not because of all the shopping and parties I have to do (I don’t) but because clients, wanting to use every last penny in their corporate budgets, end up asking me to do some project or other which I need to finish before the year is up. It’s also the time of the year that I’m commissioned to create art for various purposes.

Here, I was asked to create a family Christmas card, three by five inches, so I took my Letraset markers and came up with this:

Except oops! I didn’t ask enough questions, and it turned out that client wanted it to be in landscape format. So oh, fine, I’ll just add to the drawing:

But apparently, orange isn’t festive enough – or, I guess, Christmas-y enough – so I scanned the art into Photoshop and colored stuff in using my 3″ x 5″ Wacom Bamboo tablet and a very basic color palette.

Voila!