During the holiday break, I did many Santa doodles - trying to design new and different designs for Santa. I never had the time to post these during the holidays, so here are a few you can see now, post-Christmas.
This one was inspired by Aardman Animations' Wallace and Gromit style. It's the only Santa I colored and posted to Google+ to see it they would "auto awesome" the image with a snow effect (like they did to my Santa image from last year.)
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| Wacky Santa highly inspired by Nick Park of Aardman Animations (of Wallace and Gromit fame) |
Still haven't seen the effect be made on the image, maybe they stopped doing that effect to the images due to too many people complaining that Google was altering their images.
This one was made because I was thinking of all the versions of Santa around the world. Many Santas were inspired by national traditions or fables. Our American Santa image was heavily inspired by the poem "The Night Before Christmas" and visually branded by Coca Cola's advertising in the early part of the 20th century. But what if another American classic had inspired the look of Santa instead . . . that's when I thought of one of America's most popular fables, Paul Bunyan.
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| This one I call Lumberjack Santa. A Paul Bunyon inspired Santa sans his big blue reindeer. |
Here are a few more doodle sketches from around that same time:
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| Rushing Santa - always seems like Santa should be rushing around , especially in December. |
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| This was a little weary Santa, looking like he a bit tired of it all . . . |
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| Not sure what to make of this Santa, but his mustache is definitely too crooked. |
