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For the Andrea Brown Literary Agency 2011 Holiday card: My first initial ideas put together and presented to the powers that be at the agency. Idea A was too similar to an earlier card that was done several years ago (and I think that I might've remembered my agent mentioning the idea to me and just had it in the back of my mind). Idea B would've been too involved, considering that our time was of the essence at the time (trying to get it out before the holidays, of course!). They went for Idea C, which I thought would work best anyway.

After getting all the reference photos of the agents together and doing some rough sketching in my sketchbook, I then scanned the best rendition of each agent and put them together to see how it would work. As you can see, the background was a separate drawing and I just shifted and moved around the faces until I liked what I saw.

After getting the composition down and all the agents in place, I drew over the rough pencil sketches on my Cintiq a more refined sketch - this was then printed out in greyscale and I drew over that the final pencil lines for each of the agents. They are all drawn separately, in order for me to have the freedom of moving them around, just in case.

If you look at the final, you can see that I changed the hair for two of the agents, as they had since changed their hairstyles. No biggie!

Something I did for the lovely ladies of the awesome Andrea Brown Literary Agency for their annual holiday card. Such fun to work on this!

Well, hey there! It's me! Frozen for the holidays, just for you!