2012 Christmas Card Finals

All images and text copyright 2012 - Michael Smith - Doodle bag Productions

All images and text copyright 2012 - Michael Smith - Doodle bag Productions

Here are the final illustrations for our 2012 Christmas Cards. We are depicted on our very own Christmas Album.

Merry Christmas everybody!

Christmas Card Update

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Finally got the front composed!  On to the back!  In the home stretch!

Card Mock up

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This is the mock up for the Christmas Card with all the characters composed.

Christmas Dad

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Sara's Dad tripping over and bumping into the edge of the frame (to be added later) for the Christmas Card.  

Hand drawn, inked, computer colors and updated inking.

Christmas Card Taylor

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Still plugging through the character images for our Christmas Card.  Taylor has been colored and I am on to the dogs!

2012 Christmas Sara

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Here we have the illustration for the Sara character for our Christmas Card.

Christmas Card Work

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It is that time of year when the best laid plans come crashing around me.  I have been working on the Christmas Card off and on since July and am now just getting to finishing it up.  This year I wanted to set us up like we were on the cover of a Christmas album.  The top image is the back of the card, Santa has visited the house and dropped his cell phone while the dogs look at it receiving a call or text.  The bottom image is Sara's Mom in her Christmas outfit.  More to come soon I hope!

Christmas Card Inking

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When I have the time I am still working on the characters for our 2012 Christmas Card, above we have Sara's Mom, Sara and Tucker.

Christmas Card Sketching

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Images Copyright 2012 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions 

A couple more doodles for the Christmas Card.

Starting the Christmas Card

Christmas Mom - Copyright 2012 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

Christmas Sara- Copyright 2012 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions 

Last year I waited almost too long to start working on our Christmas Cards, so I resolved to get on them earlier this year.  Here are the pencils for a couple of the characters.  I think that this year's card will be really great and am excited about how these sketches look right now, even thought these were taken with instagram and only show a little bit of the over all image.  More to come later.