Sketches for a corporate holiday card

I have been asked again, happily, to draw up a holiday card for Safe-Guard Products of Atlanta. They’ve asked me to illustrate their eight execs in an outdoor winter scene, and I’ve seen fire pits becoming popular lately, so I sketched a very rough layout –

Then I got out my reference photos from 2013, when I last drew a card for them, and drew from each headshot they sent me, penciling in the figures with a little more detail. Toasted marshmallows & hot chocolate, anyone?

I’ll post more steps to the final art as it progresses.