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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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God, your stuff is so totally amazing. i dont understand the whole 3d drawing on a computer but i 
i love the flurry planet one aswell. must have taken years
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Thankyou, I do both digital drawing in Photoshop, and 3D as well, some use both, some only one...This one here has no 3D involved - characters are too hard to get good in 3D lol.
I learned 2D digital art by myself with years of practice. But I learned the basics of 3D through a course I did and then built up on that, I've been doing 3D for about 2 years now
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Mhm...
The style of drawing... is it like half realism?
The art is beautiful in itself, but there's something about the face that throws me off.. I can't place ya. The rest of it is amazing, but the face. It's good, a ton better than I could do
I can't place it, but just something about the face bugs me ><
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Many refer to it as "semi-realism". The best examples I could think of would be artworks like these [link] and [link] - just two out of literally thousand I could show you 
Yeah, I suck at faces, no matter how many years I've been practicing, they still come out ugly. I wish I could just magically become pro at that without any more practice
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Ahhh
Mhm'k
Ya, it's a nifty way
But hey, practice makes perfect, all in due time. Nothing just happens over night
Or in this case a year or two+ but still, patience is a virtue
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1 thing, but its probably just me (am rather blonde) whats happening with the belts around his legs?
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Thanks, I was going to give him elf-ears. But I thought that just in case people wanted to imagine him being either a young Santa, or his grandson, well normal ears made more sense
the belts around his legs don't serve any purpose, they just make him look sexier
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^^, oh hello. always nice to get a reply from u! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Ryt, that makes sense. Well the ears are perfect just so
O.O oh! 
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Now THERE's a Beautiful Christmas present.
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he can be my private santa XD nice I love this and btw Merii Kurisumasu! srry its late...
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Lol, that's OK. Thanks for commenting
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you're welcome but can he be my Santa?
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Santa belongs to everybody in the world (man, what a floozy 
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LMFAO! XD maybeh you can be my Santa? instead, ne?
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Meh...I'll pass 
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I was only jk XD Ne? means right in a form of question I think.... I'm not delcaring anything! Just in case someone else reads this and knows the real answer >.< thats what I think it means anyways...
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lol... i was going to guess young santa
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He could be 
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santa, jr?! hmm... never did want to think of santa producing offspring, but ok... i guess that means you're all the more original, lol
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Really nice!
Is that made with photoshop??
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It sure is
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Ohhh, really, really nice...
That, should be pretty much work, or am I wrong?
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Oh yeah...a lot of work, this took me no less than 30 hours I reckon
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ooooh... Sephiroth cosplaying Santa
Kurt likes ^^
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I'm amazed your'e the first to mention that actually
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or is it Dante, from Devil May Cry xD
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Man I havn't drawn Dante in years...I had some fan-art of him in my gallery from 2006, but deleted it ages ago because it looked freakishly terrible and had aquired 4 faves in 2 years 
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would be cool to post your old drawings with the new one to compair and see how you improved
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Ho Ho Ho-Holy crap Santa is actually good looking 
nice work man. heaps of detail and care taken and it shows.
oh love the hair by the way
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He sure is 
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I LOVE his coat, it reminds me of a nut cracker's coat! and great job on the hair!
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Glad you love it 
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Well, in the spirit of the season, lets just say you scored well 
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Nah, I don't celebrate anything - I hate parties, it's mostly because I got a DD and have been checking over 2000 messages within the past 24 hours
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Hmm, well the comments made up about 130 or so of the messages, the other 1900 or so were miscellaneous like faves and watches 
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Yeah, well as I said, if one like dme enough to give me 20 "you did well"'s ie - favourites, then I would surely thank them since faving more than say - three faves at once shows the person took time to look through you gallery and must have liked it a lot
Still, enjoy not-being popular, sometimes when I have an unusually small number of faves and comments to check, I no longer take it as being "neglected" I see it as "phew...a break"
Wonder how I'll cope with messages when I'm about to go away early Janurary and may not have any internet access for a month
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I worry about that too, there is one thing that I have to submit tonight on new-years, since it's a little tradition I've got going, I havn't missed a new years since joining here 
that sorting activity messages by artist is a great idea actually, you could probably post that in the "suggestions forum"
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Yes, I like it, I'll steal the outfit
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nice..I wouldn't mind Santa's lap now
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Lol, I think kids...and their mothers would be lining up for their Santa photo's 
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