Have A Fantasytastic Christmas

update: Now available as a Christmas card!

Niveus Nox, or "Holly" as she is sometimes called by her friends, has the delightful duty of giving the snowflakes their individuality as they fall from the heavens. The snowflakes start out all looking the same, bland, plane and white balls of frost, but when Niveus if finished with them they become beautifully crafted mini-masterpieces. She swirls around the sky at such speed that she often whips up the snow into quite a frenzy, but you can only catch a glimpse of her at night time, if you're really observant, because only then can her pale complexion be spotted against the dark night sky.

Drawn straight into biro on the train on the way home on Sunday night & colored up today, this is my entry into ~Cerzz's "A Fantasy-tastic Christmas" competition. I wanted something with a similar feeling to it as my Hope piece.. but more Christmassy, of course!

Colouring her today I realised that Holly's character design here is probably sub-consciously influenced by the wonderful work of =ultravioletbat - especially the patterning on the wings... oh, and head's up to ~jasoncardy for the star-field, yet again!

I hope you all have a very merry festive season, and enjoy the company of family and friends, whether you celebrate Christmas or not.