I hope you have a marvellous Holiday Season, see lots of loved-ones, experience many surprises, recive and give tons of lovely gifts and may 2008 be a fantastic year for all of you!
Obelix, comme il était vraiment….
Obelix, how he really was.
(Cartoon by Ian D. Marsden: Original artwork is in the collection of the Caricature & Cartoon Museum, Basel, Switzerland)
(Cartoon von Ian D. Marsden: Das Original ist im Besitz des Karikatur & Cartoon Museum Basel, Schweiz)
It was my great pleasure to draw a cartoon Holiday Card for the local Mairie this year. Although it doesn’t really snow very frequently in the south of France, I used some wishful thinking to give Santa Claus and Rudolph something soft to land on.
As the region produces some really fantastic wines (if you have not yet tried a Languedoc-Roussillon rosé or red you are in for a treat!) it seemed only fitting that Santa would find a nice bottle left for him by the local people.
The drawing itself is a pen and ink drawing on paper which I later colorized in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Corel Painter 9.5
J’ai eu le grand plaisir et honneur de dessiner la carte de voeux 2007 pour la mairie de Vacqières (Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon)
