My Final Outcomes for Coming Together at Christmas

Because I found that a lot of Christmas card designs had a 'Christmasy/Winter' theme to them, I wanted to create my own idea of a peaceful night for this season.

This was one of my first designs for this project. I created the background in Ps using multiple brushes to try and create snowflakes/snow. I think my design is different to the normal looking snowflake which makes it stand out.

As painting is a very traditional method when it comes to Christmas card designs, I decided to have a go at it, I think it turned out pretty well. The reason I didn't give my Santa legs was because I thought the black shoes would stand out too much and draw the eye away from the actual Santa himself. I find modern designs to do a similar thing which characters sometimes, giving them no legs, almost like a little figurine/ornament aspect to it.

As I gave my designs backgrounds they might not have been able to be used as wrapping paper designs like that so I had a go at making my own wrapping paper design pattern. Like at the beginning of my research where I like the simplicity of the snowflakes which a red background I tried doing something similar with my wrapping paper. I think the wrapping paper actually works really well like this, so I tried playing around with the positioning and amount of repeat patterns...

This was my second design for wrapping paper which I also entered into the competition. 

Overall, I was very happy with the results I got from this project and I would definitely like to do something similar again, something in the card/wrapping paper industry. I seemed to work well with this type of work and really enjoyed doing it. I got very positive feedback from people about my work and many said they would purchase it, if it was actually produced.