I wish you all a Happy New Year! May 2016 be peaceful and in a good sense “boring”, so that we can get excited for the right reasons.

Above is a little New Year’s card I made for friends and family – and which I’d now like to share with you, dear reader.

And here, just to give you an idea of the process, is the very first sketch of the idea:

You may notice that the sketch contains a bunch of happy little animals. Those turned out to be a bit too distracting and noisy, so they had to go – with a very generous exception for the bug and the butterfly.