Another Christmas piece...

Thought it would be a good idea to put one of these up every couple days, rather than all at once. Keeps em coming back for more, right?

This one is another Christmas piece, this time for my mom.  The snowman is holding cartoon verisons of her two cats, which I actually spent way, WAY too much time trying to get the small details of the colors in their fur right.  She loved it though, so I guess it was worth it.

My favorite part is the purple shadow coloring. As soon as I layed that down I knew it was perfect and was just what I was looking for. 

Also, this was the first time using some new "SNOW" photoshop brushes. before I was just using one of the stock brushes and clicking it ten thousand times in different sizes. This was much better. 

No need to keep them secret anymore...

So with the holidays behind us, I'm finally able to post up some of the pieces I've been working on over the past month. I'm actually quite happy how all of them came out. I will be honest though, I have two more that I've yet to finish, that will be done within the next day or two. What can I say, I worked myself like a dog to get it all done, but didn't, and running on 3 hours of sleep a night,  staying alert by chugging the strongest coffee known to man, left me run down and prey to some sort of virus, so I've been as sick as a dog since Christmas.

Ah well.

Enough excuses. Here is the first one. This was a piece I did for my sister, Heidi. She is an incredible artist and you can check out some of her stuff HERE for now, but make sure to bookmark THIS SITE, because it's going to be her personal website, and it's in the works right now.  PS- last time I saw it, it looked amazing, I can't wait.

So this is a pic of her, surrounded by her creations and inspirations in her tiny little room. 

Lots of little details, and I had fun recreating a few of her pieces here. All in all, I love it. 

Click the picture to view a massive version of it!