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Submitted: December 24, 2008
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Man in the red suitby `priteeboy

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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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`priteeboy Nov 17, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I have no idea how Santa can fit down the chimney if he was any wider than my version

Then again, few houses I live even have chimneys, as a kid I asked my mother how Santa was able to get into our house and our neighbours with no chimneys, she said "he's magic and can walk through the windows" and I believed her

~singingxsakura Nov 10, 2009

omg thats soo awesome i love it ... and the colors are so beautiful

~Disturbed-Leeshie Oct 26, 2009

wow thats awesome

~BlackDelphin Sep 1, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

sweet, sweet reflections on the hair you have there! the tones are really good: makes a nice mood
and the hand there is nice too! also i think that Christmas decoration has a nice texture

you should make more like this one

`priteeboy Sep 1, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thankyou! oh one thing you can count on me doing right is hair! lots of artists tell you they hate drawing it, but for my hair-obsessed self - it's my favourites part, I often save it for very last which helps me keep motivated through the rest

Yeah, I'll be doing more character-art as time goes by. I doubt they'd become my "main" but I do need to make it more than just 1 character for every 6 landscapes or so

~BlackDelphin Sep 1, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

well i think it's pretty natural to leave hair for the end..after all, you have all those threads to draw

and 1:6 is not so bad either

~Zeraphalanx Apr 5, 2009

Kris Kringle in his younger years. This is a very thoughtful idea of what he was like before he became what he is today, the Jolly fat man we all love and admire.