CHRISTMAS TARE: THE BASICS

Hello! I am Chris and in these little tips I will tell you the basics to make your Christmas card in a simple way and for all ages.

 

The first and most obvious thing is the theme of the Christmas card, there are many ways to represent Christmas and each way is unique and different, maybe some snowy mountains or a delicious dinner; what you choose will be your central image, after choosing your central idea we will add a phrase such as "Merry Christmas" or "My best wishes" can be any phrase that seems appropriate to how you celebrate your Christmas.

 

The size?

What is the ideal size of a Christmas card? It can be giant or tiny, you can choose the one you like the most, in my case I will use an A4 size, because this size can be as large as a letter-size sheet as well as if I want to make a smaller print, and let's not forget the DPI of 300 for an image when printing with high detail.

 

The sketch

The design of your drawing may be the one you like the most, for my part I chose to draw my character opening a gift full of stars, with details that I associate with Christmas.

 

 

As a recommendation, I recommend giving more prominence to the center of the illustration.

And to finish our sketch, place our Christmas phrase, you can put your phrase wherever you want but make it easy to see.

Colors!

We all know that the color palette is a vital part of a Christmas card, although for me the most representative color of Christmas is red, for you it can be gold or the color with which you associate these dates.

This has been my color palette, I used reds, yellows in most of the illustration and very dark blue colors for the background to highlight everything else.

The Brushes!

Taking advantage of the different brushes that clip studio assets gives you is a great idea to make your Christmas card look its best.

 

The following brushes will be found already included in the program:

This following glitter brush will help you give that magical touch to your Christmas card:

Here you can find it:

I have created this brush with a lot of love, it is excellent for mixing colors.

You can download it here:

Magic !

Your Christmas card will look great but don't forget to use the different layer effects, I have used the following:

 

• Add (glitter)

*Overlap

*Spot light

 

Play with opacity to get different results.

Result!!!

Now I show you how the Christmas card has been.

 

I have preferred to make the text by hand to give a more organic detail to the card, if you like it better you can use the text tool for a more aesthetic result.

The video !

As part of these tips, make a video on YouTube with much affection and love, with it I also want to wish you a merry Christmas and I hope you enjoy it a lot.

Thanks!

I am grateful that you have come this far, I send you a big hug and I wish you that all your dreams come true.

 

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Greetings from Mexico

 

Sincerely: Chris