Christmas has passed but the New Year Eve is soon to come. We have created a free printable holiday postcard, which can be used for Christmas as well as for any other winter holiday. The postcard shows the girl in the sweater sitting with her cat by the frozen window.
This postcard is made from the hand drawn sketch and painted in image processing program.
Here is how the process looked like and the general steps it took to creat such a lovely and warm winter holidays postcard.
1. First part is sketching, as usual. Using hard round brush.
2. Adding basic colors. New layer for each part.
3. Adding more shades and shadows to give more volume to the picture.
4. On the new layer I used dark-to-light blue Gradient. In the Layer options I pick Hard Light blending option and then play with opacity (here it’s 17% for the needed result).
5. Next step is to add texture for a sweater. I added the pattern on the new layer and used the blending option – Overlay and then again played with opacity.
6. For frost patterns I use Spatter brush, varying size and opacity.
7. And here’s the final version of the postcard.
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Happy Holidays everyone.