Christmas Illustrations

 WooHoo! I found something to do for about 5hours the other day in photoshop, i made a christmas card! Granted I followed a tutorial, it was still cool because I legit made everything by hand. The tree took me like an hour to do, I just couldn't get it right (and thats not including the decorations!). Everything else was a breeze and really fun. I love making illustrations, I wish I knew more techniques for them! Here is the tutorial link.

I printed it and it turned out great, I couldn't be more happy! I'm going to send it out as my christmas card this year, now I'm just debating on making another illustration for the inside or just pasting some construction paper (maybe scrap booking paper) on the inside and writing/drawing/adding stickers on it to make it a little more personal for each person. *Shrug* I did find a couple more illustrations I want to make, I'm debating making like a 5x7 flat card (like you would get done in the studio of your family) then I don't have to buy anything (the only paper I have is photo paper, no card stock). That was so much fun though, all done in photoshop.

If anyone has any good tutorials they found on different techniques please comment with the link! I'd love to learn more, this is a big passion of mine and I can easily spend hours on one piece alone.
Time to go Christmas shopping!

-Sam