This year's Christmas cards.
I always hand make all our cards - madness, as we have quite a long list, and this year I have over 60 to make.

This was inspired by two wonderful photos by ~b-e-c-k-y-stock although the poses are pretty much all that's recognizable now.

It's a digital painting, but this image is a scan of a print out, to display it the way it is meant to be seen - with the layered background. Each print is individually cut out and glued onto the card.

I rarely find out what people thought of my cards, so I thought that this year I would upload an image here.

I'm pretty busy, so I didn't spend anywhere near as much time as I would have liked on this, having rather to squeeze in enough time for it, and so some areas are a bit too unrefined for my taste, but I quite like it, all the same. I hope you do too!

If anyone wants to see screenshots of the image's progress, just say the word, and I'll compile some for you.

Time Taken: Around 10 hours, I'd say. Perhaps a little more. Not long enough, anyway.
Program: Photoshop CS, with Wacom Intuos 3

References: [link] and [link] by

Enjoy!