Hand Made Christmas Cards all over the place
Helllooooooo fair steemians and steemiennes!
I thought I'd kick this off by posting some of my most recent creations so you'd get a picture of "my brand of art" I suppose.
I have a loooot of art to show you guys so I'd better get started.
But first, maybe a bit of story time.
So, at work, we're essentially a bunch of geeky creatives and artists, some more technically inclined, some from a traditional art background. Those among us who also enjoy the "traditional arts" as well as the 3D work we do on a day to day basis (eg those who can draw) have been more or less emphatically been nudged into "Birthday Card Duty".
Basically, they do this lovely thing at my office when one of us has a birthday coming up, one of the designated birthday card minions is tasked with doing a hand-drawn birthday card which is then passed around and scribbled on as well as signed by the entire team, to be handed over to the birthday kid on the following Friday at beer-o-clock (best part of the week if you ask me).
I got to do one for a colleague who also happened to be a really good friend, so I put a little more effort and thought into it than usually.
here it is:
The Birthday-kid in question was so happy about the card it gave me all the best kind of warm and fuzzies which sparked an idea in me. A friend of mine was doing Christmas cards for all his family and me being a notorious non-gift giver (as in I never get anything for anyone, it's pretty terrible) I thought:
hey, I could do that... I love drawing anyway and it would be nice to have a little something for my friends and family for a change.
So for the first time in forever (no Disney-reference intended), I did.
here are the results. I hope you enjoy them. :D
Voilà!
I'm hoping I'll manage to make this a tradition because I put some irresistibly huge smiles on some of my loved ones faces. I think I'm starting to "get" this whole gift giving is a gift in itself thing...
Well, better late than never.
In case you are interested in the process:
All of these were done on mixed media paper,
lightly sketched first
then rendered in a mixture of fine liner,
gorgeous coloured inks applied with a brush,
Caran D'Ache coloured pencils,
a very red brush pen,
and shit tons of fine gold glitter on top (that went absolutely everywhere), which unfortunately you can't see in most of the straight on Photos.
Have a lovely day my peeps,
until the next time. <3
Welcome to the Steemit Community. I love your style and composition in all of these. They all have such character. Great job.
I would be terrified to put glitter on anything. A girl came over to my apartment after working on an art project with glitter about a year ago, and I am still randomly finding bits of glitter in places.
I am following you on this steemit adventure. I look forward to seeing what you create.
oh my, thank you! ❤ that's a huge compliment coming from you. Especially since, when it comes to composition, I usually feel like I have no clue what I'm doing and am always unsure. I do have quite a bit of theoretical knowledge but it's counter intuitive to me when I'm "in the zone" drawing so I tend to just go with what "feels" right. more or less successfully at times haha
hahaha yes, the glitter conundrum. I was wise enough to use the glitter while on Christmas vacation back home at my mothers, so I don't have to worry about it hahahahaha
My mother probably hates me though. Especially since I worked in the kitchen... and we have cats... whoops.
Thank you so much for the follow, it is much appreciated. ❤
Let's see where Steemit will take us, shall we? :D
I'm just imagining those cats right now covered in glitter. For some reason, in my head, those cats are also wearing fake eyelashes. I feel like there is an art concept somewhere in there.
HAHAHA omg please make it happen XD XD aww man, I'm not gonna be able to get that image out of my head now hahaha
These are amazing and soo sweet :)
thank youuu~~ <3
These are awesome! And since I got Yoda, that one is the most awesomest! <3
Actually, they are all great :D
hehehehehehe ♥ (abusing the unicode heart like crazy)
They are so wonderfully sweet, I'm sure they all went crazy for them!
And I love the birthday card tradition at your office!
wee thank you! yeah the reactions were pretty awesome ♥
I'll do that again for sure.
I love that they do that too! (even if I sometimes have to stay up late to finish a birthday card because I'm too busy during the day lol) it's really fun reading all the comments everyone writes for people. There's usually some pretty funny ones XD