It was so fantastic to be asked to illustrate another Christmas issue of Reader's Digest UK for 2022! The art director wanted a large festive character full of colour and warmth to make a Christmassy cover
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Below are a few of the sketched ideas I sent over, from which the art director picked this cosy gingerbread man scene
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