IF: Mailer - for publishing companies and christmas postcards

We did two versions of this as mailers.  Instead of regular christmas cards, we thought it'd be fun to do postcards.

"If you hear the pitter patter of square hooves on the roof, it's just Lil' Santa Panda and his square reindeer!"

"Just watch out for lil' square poops falling from the sky on Christmas Eve!"

Squaremania: Santa Panda and the reindeers

So this illustration is finally finished.  All the lines are self colored (and still vector quality) and I added reins...and that's what put the finishing touches on Santa Panda and the reindeers.

Squaremania - Santa Panda and his reindeer - try #5

I'm trying to put this up for Illustration friday, and for some reason the thumbnail isn't loading...so I keep trying...so here's to try #5, and sorry for all the blank thumbnails on that site...

 

This is the final illustration of little santa panda racing around the world to deliver presents on christmas eve.  It's still without the reins or straps (and possibly bells...it depends on how much detail I want to put into it) on the reindeer and santa's sled.  But all the characters and the background are finished.

 

Squaremania - lil' square reindeer

This is the final version of the Squaremania reindeer. I figured that since I was finished with all of Santa's reindeer, that I would separate them into their own illustration.  But don't worry, soon enough they'll be shacked and harnessed into Santa's sleigh and race around the world to deliver presents...

Santa's Sleigh - clean lines, rough color

This is the clean up version of this...I took a quick pass at color in Adobe Illustrator:

this is the first pass at color.

 

I've finished the front part, and have the entire background (minus the foreground) and all the characters except for Rudolf.

Santa's Sleigh - rough drawing

Little Santa Panda's Transportation:

This is where the reindeer I was drawing are going.  I still need to check into how many reindeer there actually were (all the ones from the song, plus Rudolph)...without looking, I'm going to guess 8.  But other than that I just need to clean this drawing up in Adobe Illustrator and start painting!

I took the three reindeer that I drew and exported them from Illustrator to Photoshop...and placed them where I thought they should go and then printed it out...and added the sleigh with little Panda Santa and the neighborhood background.  I then took the scan and changed it's layer to multiply and on a layer underneath I did a quick coloring job, just to get a rough idea of what it would look like.

How deer!

These are the starting point for my next illustration.  I thought of it through Illustration Friday's Transportation topic this week...as in Santa's sled being pulled by reindeer.  So I spent the weekend drawing reindeer and thumbnailing how the little panda santa was going to look with them.