This was such a mood.

I didn’t really have any particular reason for making this. I think I just wanted to express the general suck vibe of Christmas during a pandemic, so consider this a piece of personal history that I’ll eventually laugh about.

I went corny on purpose. Full on Christmas pine cone wreath, circular portraiture, and a cheesy one-liner below to really give it a mock greeting card feel. I personally love this beyond anything I’ve ever created so far. Because it’s completely born from my imagination.

And I was entirely out of my comfort zone (and deeply insecure for a while), and when I was done with this piece, strangely… arrived in my comfort zone. Turns out I really, really love this part of drawing more than anything.

Christmas 2020 wasn’t great, but it gave me a pretty neat gift, which is a new confidence in myself as a creating artist. And a freedom to realize that I don’t have to know ALL about technique in order to progress. Let art be FUN. Grow by DOING. It doesn’t have to be perfect to be perfect anyway. (I think in a way, this is how Chromasome came to be.)

That handwriting portion was tricky though. I will have to practice that.

Tools used

Fully digital drawing using the One by Wacom M tablet and Adobe Photoshop CC