HolidayArtSwap - Scarlet-Dawn

... this year I participated in *mechangel2002's Holiday Art Swap (you can read about it in her journal HERE) and was paired up with *Scarlet-Dawn ... as my gift to her, I chose to put my spin on an image she had made of Rudolph done in markers (as seen HERE)...

... originally I wanted to make and render a 3D model of him in all his red-nosed glory, but I've been limited to a loaner laptop this past month and it just doesn't have the RAM necessary to handle the software...

... instead I colored her line art from a tracing using my Wacom and Painter... when I was done, I thought it turned out good enough to use as the cover art for my Christmas cards...

... original art (c) 2006 by *Scarlet-Dawn, used by permission...