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Published: 2008-12-25 02:06:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 18253; Favourites: 324; Downloads: 0
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SURPRISE!!!...I bet you all thought I already had my Christmas deviation for this year submitted already with Frozen Flurry galaxy and even I thought that was going to be it too. But I realised I had enough time to make a more formal Chrissy deviation and like never before - post it on the actual day
All my first christmas deviations were landscapes, and had cold blue/white colour combinations, so this year I wanted something completely different and decided to make a character the focal point rather than a tree (though you can see The wishing tree in the background lol) as well as choose a much wamer colour scheme - red and gold which was inpsired by a lovely poinsettia plant I got, you can seem them around the edges in here too
My concept here can be taken any way you want...the man in the red suit could just be a guy dressing up for the day, but on a deeper level - could he be the young Santa Claus before the beard (and the gut) came in? I'll let you decide
I used a found pic here as reference for the pose only, but all other concepts for the character design, clothing and surroundings are original and mine. Hope you like!... Though I only disabled critique on this particular one since it took a long time and I'm not sure if I could find motivation to work on it any more, so if you really need to crit, then do so if you know what you are talking about, But I most likely wont bother making any changes
Merry Christmas to all my beloved watchers! Just please everyone remember to not use my art in any way, be it on dA or off without permission from me
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Comments: 195
He never sucked, he was the pinnacle of generosity and sneaking into little kid's rooms
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Which I always found to be very creepy...since I was like five...
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Sisiko: Santa's been cheating again.
Me: Get off my chair!
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dude it looks like Sephiroth!!!! that's so epically awesome!!!!
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Must be the long white hair
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excellent piece, the background is fantastic! XD
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Looks like Sephiroth was forced to be a store Santa as community service =]
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With everything Sephiroth has done, he has a lot more than just Community service coming to him
But no punishment is worse than having to pretend to be interested in what kids want for Christmas all day
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LOL, a bishie santa XD
Nice concept, I really like the idea and the background [especially the red flowers around the border]... lots of red, so festive XD
One tiny critic if I may [don't shoot me and I know you won't change it cause I'm kinda the same when I think I've done enough work on a picture 
But other than that, I think you are doing a really nice job with your figures recently.
Merry Christmas Mat-sempai ^^
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Hmm, your'e right actually, yeah this is a year old now and I can't be bothered fixing it 
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Ah! This is how I always picture Santa Claus anyway-the 'real' one, not the corporate one, ha ha! So wonderful
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I have no idea how Santa can fit down the chimney if he was any wider than my version
Then again, few houses I live even have chimneys, as a kid I asked my mother how Santa was able to get into our house and our neighbours with no chimneys, she said "he's magic and can walk through the windows" and I believed her
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omg thats soo awesome i love it ... and the colors are so beautiful
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sweet, sweet reflections on the hair you have there! the tones are really good: makes a nice mood
and the hand there is nice too! also i think that Christmas decoration has a nice texture
you should make more like this one
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Thankyou! oh one thing you can count on me doing right is hair! lots of artists tell you they hate drawing it, but for my hair-obsessed self - it's my favourites part, I often save it for very last which helps me keep motivated through the rest
Yeah, I'll be doing more character-art as time goes by. I doubt they'd become my "main" but I do need to make it more than just 1 character for every 6 landscapes or so
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well i think it's pretty natural to leave hair for the end..after all, you have all those threads to draw
and 1:6 is not so bad either
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Kris Kringle in his younger years. This is a very thoughtful idea of what he was like before he became what he is today, the Jolly fat man we all love and admire.
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Lol, yeah, could be his younger self, or perhaps even his Son
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I like the idea of him being his son. The young son, Kris carries on the legacy of Christmas.
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Note to self: I want this coming down my chimney next year.
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AMEN TO THAT!!!!! LOL
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Beautiful work!
Creativity has set up a sub-division in your mind my friend. Congratulations. You are definately among my fav artists now
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Thankyou very much, glad you liked it. I try to make mos of my works as creative and original as possible
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lovely coloring~!! i especially like how you colored his pants
great job~!! ^__^
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Thanks a lot, the pants were the only thing I used a texture on (a leather texture with a weak opacity) - just to add a bit of variation
nice gallery too, I thought I recognised the name
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Damn, nice colors! I gotta get back to drawing, lol.
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that's creepy... XD Anyway! I've returned!... Again!
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You keep dissappearing and then returning again 
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I adore the suit! Especially the necklace and arm band thing. Colors are fantastic too.
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Lol, my brother saw the line-art to this and thought the necklace was a tattoo around his neck 
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Pritee! Wow our getting amazing at this whole digital drawing thing
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Thanks, I still have a long time to go before I reach the levels of artists I idolise such as ~heise for example 
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.... Not very creative on the title, are you? haha.
He looks awesome... Just a minor wave in the arm on the right that makes it look like it bent in the not-elbow place.
But I absolutely love how you did this, he looks so real and it's all... *flails* I can't describe it!!!
It's just... amazing.
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Lol, really? I think this title is more creative than the alternative title "Young Santa" 
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HAHA. Well if you compare it to THAT title... then yes it's VERY creative!!! ^_^
hehe.
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I REEEEALLY want to make a comment about...Oh, wait, Nozomi Shiro beat me to it...
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Lol, I think she already spoke for many people
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