Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?
Shop deviantART for the
holidays and save BIG!
Click here! :holly:
[x]

deviantART

:flirty:
 
©2007-2009 ~CrypticVensy
:iconcrypticvensy:

Artist's Comments

FULL VIEW PLEASE :)

Here is my Christmas picture. :) I didn't want to write Merry Christmas on it, though, considering there are so many winter holidays out there... Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah everyone!

I'm back to complete the description. I sketched this up at school at the same time as I sketched up my Thanksgiving picture, but for some reason I wanted to CG the Christmas picture instead of traditionally painting it. I also wanted to attempt to make it large enough to make almost poster-sized prints of it. The largest size I could work at, however, was 5000x5000px. Anything larger would lag too much for me to stand.

One thing that was really fun about this piece was that it's completely made out of paths (pen tool) and selections. The only part of this that I manually shaded using the brush tool was some of the hat puff areas and the bell. Using only selections and paths was REALLY useful for such a large image. @,@

So this piece is a little under 5000x5000px and at the end, the psd file was over 200mb. It takes about one minute to save it now. Dx And I can't even use the Save to Web function anymore, when I try it just says "not enough memory"; lmao! So this is more evidence that I need a new computer -- for both gaming and art. :) (And don't anyone dare start telling me, "get a Mac", because I will never succumb to such evils. [Just Kiddin] )

PS: If anyone is interested in a 12x12" print of this, let me know! It'd cost $10. ^^ (Covers print price, envelope, and shipping)

Comments


love 0 0 joy 0 0 wow 0 0 mad 0 0 sad 0 0 fear 0 0 neutral 0 0
:iconrabid-cabbit:
Adorable and so brilliantly colored, as always! You even paid attention to the various textures - Vensy looks soft, the hat looks woolly, the collar looks leathery...and the bell looks real! Man, you ought to design Christmas cards. I had such a hard time picking some out this year because 99% of them had cheap, ugly artwork. XD

--
"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."

- Engrish.com
:iconrajal:
Absolutley adorable! I really love the smoothness of the shading, its gorgeous!
:iconmatsu-sensei:
Shiney bell is shiney~

Merry Christmas to you too Vensy. :]

--
Don't drag IRL-physics into anime. :|

Matt sprite icon courtesy of *Kenj :)
:iconsesakaheart:
Merry X-mas to you too! =D

--
:cylon: Want to do a commission with me? They're available!:cylon:
CLICK HERE
:iconhedge-dragon:
Merry Christmas Vensy!!!

from
~ a very bad person *hint hint* ;D
:iconduo2nd:
Aww...it's the holidays and you dressed to spread the joy! :3
Happy holidays.

--
I am Pokemon #490 Manaphy in DA's Pokemon Crew

You called?
:iconeledora:
The reflection on the bell looks quite realistic, and I like the cozy red colors on the background. Nice job on this! :)

--
Side account for anime people (Death Note and Samurai 7): ~momota
Give my mini Samurai 7 fansite a visit? :dance:

Details

December 18, 2007
376 KB
376 KB
600×600

Statistics

7
21 [who?]
324 (0 today)
18 (0 today)

Share

Link
Embed
Thumb

Site Map