Rand & Oran Xmas Cards
for
Bane Huntress's Anime/Manga Male Harem
& now Bane-Huntress.co.uk

Well Just that I have three now since this site has been online...
And thought I would gather them here in one place...

This page is also soon to be part of the Rand & Oran site... 
This is just a sneak peek at what is to come ^_^

Just doing this page and I noticed something... In each card, they all have Angels in them in one form or another...
Also tinsel! This may not sound like a biggi, but trying to draw tinsel and make it look believable are two different things!

2002

 Rand and Oran dressing up for the holiday!
Oran is an Angel, well I just had to slap strap-on wings on him, he's meant to have tinsel in his hair as a halo. (A little throw back from when I did my Nativity play at school when I was six). He's holding some bells and them Oranges with cloves in, just cause I needed some connection with Xmas... This is also the few images I've done of him with his hair in a pony tail, though it's not that obvious.
Rand is an Elf, Just though it was a bit of sad irony, seen as he is about the only chara I draw without pointy ears I gave him a pair of stick on ones. Anyone who's seen or read Lodoss Wars will notice the subtle as a brick style of outfit he's wearing, and again this is the the first time I've drawn a hat, and did a rather good job if I do say so myself... He also has some Mistletoe hanging from a strategic place on his hat :P hehehe, Poor Oran's for it :P

My first Black & White Xmas card for the site, Done with original Pen outline then SG'ed to death, my poor computer was having a fit doing this cause I had to keep it at a huge resolution for a better effect... I could have done it in colour, but I hate CDing in colour and my computer would have just exploded if I tried :P
Forgetting the original pencil line sketch that took 2 day's, it was finished in about 6/7 hours...

2001

 NEVER BEFORE SEEN!
For all you who sent me your addresses and never got an Xmas card from me... This is what it was, hardly worth the hassle... Sorry >_<

Rand and Oran doing nativity.
What can I say about this one... I love Rand's hair! A little CG effect that I couldn't put into the original brown pen and water-Colour painting I did... Other than that it is cute but not that good... They were originally going to be chibbis dressed in snowman outfits but Rand just refused to get into one, and Oran wasn't doing it without him... so they opted for the Angel look.
In this one you can also see the colour of their eyes! Though Oran's shouldn't be that dark blue, more bordering on light blue to grey.

2000

 Bane's Harem's first Xmas Card.

This was sent out to everyone I know IRL as well, so it had to have me in the middle of my Chara...
Chara from top left, descending: Ferin, strange black hair, Demon - Dero, fallen angel, bone wings - Jen, Demon with little Dragon, loos hair - Oran, with his hand in my box *g* - Bane, me, the only woman - Jin, Demon, braided hair and little dragon - Rand dressing the tree.

The problem with this one is I used three different kinds of paint, Poster, Gouache and water-colour and were as the three bind together will IRL, they look terrible when you come to scan them >_< But this one was also CGed to get rid of some nasty mistakes...

And Finally... My one and only
Fan-Art Xmas Card

2001

 hehehe I just loved this when I laid eyes on it in mail!

Done by Liv Lingborn - A true Rand & Oran Xmas!

More Fan art from Liv and her website as soon as the R&O site is online, so we can all see more of this!
I'm hoping for another card from her this year if she has time that is! *sit's on hotmail biting nails*

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