It's been a couple of years since I've produced the family holiday card. (it happens) Below is my return to the genre, as we have Santa the proprietor et unrelenting boss trying to get his proletarian artisan back on the job. (Damn elves! --their labor is cheap, but oh the headaches --always hiding and slacking off!) The drawing below is fairly near the final. Problems needing adjusting include his hand/arm which unfortunately reads more like a salute than the searching gesture I was intending. As we all know, Santa salutes no one --(except Rudolph of course). So in order to avoid Kringlesque litigation, I will have to void out those fingers I've grown fond of, and flatten out the hand pose. The elf needs to move back a tad, and perhaps be a bit overlapped by the lower part of Santa's girth... I'll have to see how it goes.
O-U-T spells out.
© Richard Ewing all rights reservedHere's how the the hand may read in the final.
© Richard Ewing all rights reservedSome of the first few sketches made in the exploratory stages of the concept. At first sleeping was the elf's wont, but TV seemed more annoying.
© Richard Ewing all rights reserved
I'm liken the grumpy santa drawing . I'm been thinking about your "looking" hand all night and a bit this morning. The last drawing is working much better at communicating looking vs. a salute.
ReplyDeleteawesome work, just can't stop looking at your drawings :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Travis, I'm liking the Santa as well.
ReplyDeleteBill, yes, I'm going with the redo on the hand, there's a better flow when using the more open salute gesture, but the concept of searching comes through better on the latter.
If it matters to anyone, the dates scribbled on the Santa drawings show the wrong month; these were done at the end of September, not August. I guess I can't count...
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