ArtRage is an intuitive digital art app that mimics traditional mediums of artistic expression, such as watercolor or oil painting. Users of the Galaxy Note5 can download the app, free of charge, in Galaxy Apps.

To make your own Christmas greeting, follow these simple steps.

Start With the Drawing

To create your Christmas tree drawing, start by choosing a canvas and drawing the outline of your tree. Seasonal pines are usually topped with a star, and underneath presents can be found. Fill in your tree with ornaments and any special trimmings. You can easily replicate oil paint brush strokes using the S Pen and the Oil Brush feature. When using the S Pen to draw, the pen can recognize the amount of pressure that is being applied, creating lines of different thickness.

Use Color to Fill in the Artwork

One way to filli in the tree with color is by using the Watercolor Brush. ArtRage offers a range of preset paint techniques that mimic both oil paints and watercolors. For example, Wet on Wet lets you paint with watercolors on a wet surface, while Dry on Wet layers watercolors on a dried surface.

After filling in the ornaments, it is time to color the background. To do so, ArtRage offers the Paint Tube and Palette Knife functions. When using oils, artists use a palette knife to spread the paint onto the canvas. ArtRage offers this technique as a preset.

You can also use Frost mode to blend colors. In the example above, the red color in the background feels a little dark for a cheery holiday drawing. To adjust it, select the blue Paint Tube and spread it around the background with the Palette Knife. You can reduce the transparency of a layer, or change the Blend mode in the attribute menu to use special effects. You can also hide a layer in the layer menu by selecting the eye-shaped icon.

Bright Effects Create a Festive Look

To brighten the background, squeeze a light, bright color from the Paint Tube. White can then be sprayed in small areas to make your background even brighter. Then, use the Palette Knife to push the color outward towards the edges to give the star a shining effect. You can also add twinkling effects to the ornaments using Airbrush.

No Christmas tree is complete without lights, and using Glitter Tube can re-create the look of sparkling lights. You can choose the settings to pick the shape of the grain and colors.

Be Sure to Share

After finishing your drawing, be sure to upload it to PEN.UP. PEN.UP is great for sharing your artworks with others. Check out a wide range of holiday greetings by other artists around the world, expressed in their own styles using PEN.UP on the Galaxy Note5. You can easily join PEN.UP by downloading the app from Google Play.

December is half over and New Year’s Day is just around the corner. Getting into the holiday spirit of “in with the new,” Samsung launched a new out of home (OOH) advertising campaign. Seasonal signage, interactive billboards, metro station takeovers and pop-up stores celebrate the new wearable and the new year to come.

As part of the festivities, Samsung is releasing a wide range of holiday-themed watch faces, including winter landscapes, snowflakes, snowmen and snow globes. There are even faces that look like Christmas sweaters, Christmas trees and more. And as usual with the Gear S2, you can customize the faces, and try out a variety of colors and looks.

In addition, the festive Gear S2 greetings, showcasing the special watch faces for both the Gear S2 and the Gear S2 classic, are surfacing all over Europe and Asia. A coffee shop on Seoul’s popular Garasugil Street, in the famous Gangnam district, is operating a fanciful Gear S2 pop-up store until the end of the month, full of holiday cheer. It features such attention-getters as an entrance decorated like a giant present, a large LED installation depicting the Gear S2 and a Christmas tree full of watch-face ornaments. There is also an experience zone on the first floor for visitors to try the Gear S2.

Take a look at some of the colorful ways that the Gear S2 is appearing around the world this holiday season.

A coffee shop in Seoul.

Gear S2 on the wall of one of the world’s top museums, the Natural History Museum in Paris.

Gear S2 covered the Central Building wall in the heart of Central, Hong Kong.

Gear S2 at the center of Italian fashion, Via Montenapoleone, where luxury brands and products are showcased in Milan.

Gear S2 filled the walls of the BFI IMAX cinema in London.

Marble Arch in London.

Central House of Artist in Moscow.