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christmas elf doodle

Here it is--the completed doodle.

 

From start to finish, it took about 4 hours. I completed it in one day.

 

5.5" x 8.5"

 

I had to have a steady hand for this, but was able to work on it on my train and subways ride back home with little issue.

 

I actually keep 2 sketchbooks of these kind of doodles because I find that I obsessively create these kind of things in my spare time. Usually they have no representative qualities to them, but found it refreshing to create a doodle with a thematic element to it.

 

Every snowflake is different, but I don't feel like most of them look like snowflakes. But they were fun to make up!

 

I'd love to stat making more multi-colored doodles, but I intentionally chose to make this one color because I want to do some photoshop editing with it to see what it looks like in different colors. It's going to be used as a background element for an illustration I'm working on, so I didn't want it to be -too- busy. (I also intend on making it significantly less opaque so it doesn't compete too much with the rest of the illustration)

 

I had a lot of fun making this and it's what I naturally am inclined to do in my spare time, so I'm thrilled to see that people here seem to appreciate it!

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Uploaded on October 22, 2012
Taken on October 22, 2012