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Christmas portrait photo-set: Elves

Added 2024-12-13 14:00:00 +0000 UTC

Is it Christmas already? It might feel like it, because today's photo-set is a momentous selection of over 100 reference photos! After releasing our Santa Claus and Santa Claus Portrait photo sets last year we thought we'd turn the spotlight on his festive workforce, with Draw tutors Lance & Bella taking on the mantle of Christmas Elves. In contrast to the customer-facing elf-on-a-shelf types, theses elves are hard working carpenters & toy painters in aprons and steel-toe-capped boots and we'll be releasing some full-figure versions next week! It has been wonderful to see the Santa photo-sets making their way on to Christmas card designs this year, so do share any artwork you make from these references with us, we'd love to see! It's also totally ok to round off those pointy ears and use the photosets to inspire non-seasonal work - these photosets aren't just for Christmas, they're for life.

About the models

Bella's portrait recording can be found HERE
Bella's clothed Harlequin life drawing recording can be found HERE & Cats life drawing session HERE
Bella's clothed photo-set can be found HERE and her portrait set can be found HERE
You can follow Bella's instagram HERE
You can see Lance's clothed photo-set HERE and portrait set HERE
Lance's portrait recordings can be found HERE & HERE
You can follow Lance on Instagram HERE

About the photographer & photos

This photoset was shot by Justyna Neryng
You can find our full schedule of autumn photosets in our original 'Winter '24 & '25 Teaser' post HERE

Use the Draw Patreon Navigator to find any of our past photosets and take a look at our blogs on how to gather, manipulate and translate photo reference.

Guidelines for using the photographs

Please do:

Download these pictures to your own computers and devices, downloading the Zip files for all images, or saving individual photos.
Use the pictures to draw, paint, print and sculpt from, being as realistic or creative as you like
Share the artwork you’ve made with us and the world - in books, in exhibitions, on social media, or on your fridge
Tag us in work you make (@drawbrighton / #drawbrighton) – you don’t have to, but we love to see what you’ve made!
Edit the photo files as reference for your own drawings - you can change the contrasts, colours and backgrounds to provide more tailored reference for yourself.

Please don't:

Share these pictures with anybody else – they are between you and us
Share the photos themselves online – thanks for respecting our models’ privacy
Edit the photo files themselves for artwork – we want to see original work you’ve made

Thanks!