The Pen Tool (P) will help us to represent the trousers for Santa, having the color from here: #ED2225



Santa Clause character is finished. We must only add a parachute he comes down from the sky with and the postcard is almost finished!



Begin by representing the parachute’s top element that is composed of a big oval element, made with Ellipse Tool (U), having the color #ED2225. Make the usual subtraction (holding on Alt button) of the ellipses out the other ones and represent a lot of small ellipses inside the biggest one the way shown below:



Select Blending Options>Pattern Overlay:

 

 



Blending Options>Stroke:

 



Next we’ll represent an ellipse of white color, making the necessary points’ corrections and after that hold on Alt button while clicking between the parachutes top’s layer and the recently made layer: