whitfield christmas card 2012

as you may know, i always make my own christmas cards.

http://markwhitfieldphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/limited-edition-whitfield-xmas-cards.html

http://markwhitfieldphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/last-christmas.html

http://markwhitfieldphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/making-xmas-cards.html

usually i just draw onto a piece of card but this year i've embraced

the digital age and drawn onto a piece of paper, scanned it in to my

mac, and messed about with it using photoshop.

1

the first sketch. in biro onto a postcard








2

when i thought it might be a good idea to use a bit of colour








3

using a felt-tip pen and a ruler








4

after scanning in the felt-tip / ruler effort, i dumped some colour onto it.








5

and this is how it stands at the moment.

i toyed with the idea of putting a yellow halo around the baby jesus
and also around mary's head.

i thought about giving crowns to the three wise blokes too.

i as also advised to make the star "star-shaped" instead of square.

plus there's usually some livestock involved in this scene...
should i put some animals on the left ?

any ideas ?

let me know soon as i'm going to have to get these lads knocked out in the
next couple of days.

season's greetings and all that.