What I did this Xmas

This year’s Christmas card that I created for the owners of my work. Each year, our department creates a card that everyone signs (about 1000 employees) and presents it at our annual Xmas party. This is the 4th card I created, but the first with my cartoons. The card (book) measures 9x12 and is as thick as any other pop-up book. Check out the rest on my Flickr page HERE.




...and the tree has 10 LED lights and sing "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" when the last page is opened.

Starting to breathe a little more....

Been so busy with visitors, working on the house and work that I haven't been able to do my art..... I actually am working on a veil for a friends wedding as well as the steamship. But I got the inspiration bug to do some testing of silhouettes. Enjoy.

Final Animals for Christmas Card

Here are the final 2 animals for the Christmas card:White wolves and Snow Deer. Now all I have left is to put together the book.

More Christmas Animals...

Here are some more animals (with some completed ones as well).

This Snow Leopard is probably my favorite of the group.


Although the Arctic Fox is a close second.


Here is the complete Polar Bear family.


...and finally-two Artic Hares.


I still have a deer and a white wolf-so check back soon (probably this coming weekend)

Start of Christmas Card

Greetings. Here is the start of a Christmas pop-up card that I was tasked to create to give to the owners of our company. This will be the third one that I created for the company(earlier posts show the first one). This theme is winter creatures. I anticipate nine creatures in all. Here is what I have created thus far...

Comp for an Arctic Fox.


Here is a Snow Owl.


Here is the start of the Polar Bear family (the mother is shown)


I just finished one with Geese and one with Rams on a crag of rocks (I need to get the pics for those). Also, I wish to thank my wife, Elisa, for her illustrations. She is fantastic and I wish she would draw more and stay away from that photo stuff (rots the brain).