thinking of Christmas

This is the first of a set of 3 winter holiday cards.

The house and motives were sketched on my tablet on paper, Intuous Pro, with the pen that transfers it to digital format. I started in Illustrator and moved to Photoshop for the final touches.

I am plugging along on my classes and the brief for this assignment was to create a Christmas card based on holiday cookies. After a few drawing explorations, I felt I wanted to depict intricate "frosted" gingerbread houses. This makes me think of the family trees I have drawn, too. I love getting lost in all those details within a big shape.