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Joachim · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 1:24 pm

Hey,

Here's another illustration I did the other day. It's a christmas card for a norwegian bakery chain, so I made a santa with a baker hat giving cakes to a little boy...inside a bakery shop...aw, whatever.
And, yes, the type of motif is very inspired by leyendeckers santa and probably every other x-mas drawing from the 50's.
Hope you like it anyways....

Gandalf- · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 1:28 pm

Oh wow! I love this! It's so... comforting. I feel all warm and happy when I look at it. You definitely captured the Christmas spirit well!

Man, I'm hungry.. I need a gingerbread man.

Magicman · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 1:33 pm

wow, it�s so intime...and the little pigs...

you choose very warm colors...i love it.

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Pringle · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 1:41 pm

Is the ginger bread man on the right being lynched?
Nice image though

-Z.

Rattmouth · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 1:57 pm

Look at those tiny pigs! Those are great. We could have the world's smallest bacon. Can I have a miniature pig for Christmas, Mom?!

Mom?....

Oh wait, I'm at work.

Dad?

[rm]

horstenpeter · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 1:58 pm

I like this a lot, though I have to say that the feeling of them being inside a bakery shop didn't come through at once. I account this to the most part to the white wall - the color you often see the outside of houses painted in - and to the little things on the floor, which looked like leaves from a tree to me. So I'd suggest to make the background colour a little warmer and also to include some sort of edge between the floor and the wall. Though that might maybe look strange on a printed postcard.

St. Seneca · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 2:17 pm

Pedophile.

roundeye · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 2:22 pm

this is a great piece, joachim! wow

Lukiaz · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 2:29 pm

Yeah very cool. I like your line work alot...very stable/balanced.
The white edges somehow take away from the bakery feel of things. Do you think you could do a quick take on what it would look like if it were painted to all corners?.

Inapropriate touching by Santa?

sweetpea · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 2:38 pm

woo, i like it. the colors feel very norman rockwell-ish to me. maybe it's the gleeful, wholly innocent looks on their faces as well. great job.

Jezebel · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 2:54 pm

*dies* Just beautiful... it's so warm and sweet. My mom would love this ^_^

Daydreamer · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 4:08 pm

uhhhh.....almost frightenly happy and warm atmosphere......*arg*

very beautiful work though
.:LR:.

Son of Cos · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 4:22 pm

!!!!

Icannon · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 5:10 pm

this reminded me right away of your christmas painting last year. both are so warm and great.

Jacks True Self · junior member Member # Joined: 04 Aug 2001 Posts: 26

Oh, its so cute! So cute it makes me wanna vomit...

Great drawing Joachim, i can only hope to do something like this one day. Your last years was great as well.

Joachim · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 12:38 am

Hey Guys thanks for the replies ! And I'm happy you liked it. Hehe, the gingerbread man is being lynched thought of that, but it sure looks like that

The background, yeas I agree that you don't get the feeling that it a wall. Actually, I did that for two reasons, 1 because I started to paint the whole thing darker, but found that that it would make the whole picture a lot more work to do, according to light etc...which I chose not to do, because the payment on the illustration was too low, even for this one.
2. the reason why the wall is kind of bright, is that I kind of wanted just to frame in the characters and window as elements in a way, and remove the enviroment in a way....they way that was very typical before, with commersial illustrations. But, I agree that you don't get a feeling of a wall behind them....funny, it works much better like this on print actually, you don't really think that much about it then. (I'll see if I find some time to post one with a rough wall behind though, as requested)
long explanation/exscuse

sorry.

oh yeah, I did a similar drawing last year, of myself as the santa holding a small child. Actually that's part of the reason why I got the job. That's allso why I've kept it quite similar in style, then I knew they would be satisfied.

Thanks a lot guys for all the nice feedback and comments, and not least all the compliments. ...very appreciated !

oscar · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 3:24 am

You still rock my world dude

Awesome colouring... Great characters.

I was thinking of drawing my own christmas card this season... thanks for the inspiration!

digitalmar · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 10:06 am

Sorry Joachim, I just saw Shrek and the site of that poor gingerbread man hanging there really hit me . . .

Couldn't resist

. Hope you don't mind.

Gandalf- · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 11:07 am

edible snowman · member Member # Joined: 12 Sep 2000 Posts: 998

i keep staring at this and its getting better by the second.

Flexible Elf · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 4:59 pm

very cool Joachim!

complete with antiqued golden-brown whites

-Flexible Elf

DiXter · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 5:10 pm

Agrees with all ^

You made me loonging for christmas..

*stares at the pic again*
I can almost hear ginglebells..

You're the man!!

Gandalf- · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 5:43 pm

Hey Joachim..

I just noticed something...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't Santa have black boots?

Rinaldo · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 8:35 pm

Haha, that rocks. I love the one you did last time as well. the colours are spot on.

Death Dealer · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 8:52 pm

I personaly love X mas, this really wraps up the whole spirit...

Great job!!!