First of all, you might find the brushwork and colour choices familiar. Well, I'm a big fan of Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes comic strip (which has since been retired), and sought to emulate his style somewhat. The original sketch was drawn in pencil at A5 size, then scanned and blown up to A4 for inking using a brush pen. Colours were applied in Photoshop. The snowmen are also reminiscent of Calvin's works.
Secondly, I wanted to emphasize that it was not X'mas, but †'mas. There's no Christmas without Christ, so I decided to put the cross the right way up. This is the day we commemorate one of history's most remarkable events - the Incarnation, when God took the form of a human child to become the Saviour of the world. Christ is the only reason we celebrate the season, for without this Gift of God, we would still be walking in darkness.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth"
~ 1 John 1:1-4,14 ~
