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General store's (Tiem Tap Hoa) fun moment when they children painted the wooden sign for their Mom to enjoy the upcoming year
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The girl combing her Grandma's hair in the late afternoon on the last day of the year
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The special reunion at Tet
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The little garden's last shower before New Year
Before we start coloring a draft, we want to try many approaches in color as much as we could so that a good color sketch won't be left out. The more we focus on this stage, the more we could imagine the later product would be
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We have included a step by step below, from black and white sketch to color draft to finished piece!
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