Now, I want to write about birthday celebration in Iranian culture.As everyone knows, most birthday elements are same.For example:Birthday cake, candles, Gifts and....However, I want to explain how these elements used in Iranian birthday. The cake will be decorated traditionally.Then it will typically be covered with lit candles when presented, the number of candles should be as same as person's age. We will decorate our houses by some colorful papers that used in our country. We will use colorful balloons as well.Then we will surprise the person by singing happy birthday to you which means "Tavalodet Mubarak" in Persian. The person whose birthday it is may make a silent wish and then blow out the candles. Then taht person opens her/his presents.If it was a child's birthday, then the parents would buy a lot of hats and put them on the other children head that are coming to their child's birthday. All people would dance until midnight together. They would have fun together.

This is the birthday design that I have chosen for assignment three.

This is my first scatch that I have done it for my birthday card.

This is my final work of callender. I should mention that the watermelon and pomegranate and ofcourse nuts are the most important fruits in this night.People get this fruits and getting toghether in this night.

at the last but not the least,I added two pieces of wateremelon.Firstly,I made two cyrcle by ellipse tool and eresed one of them by eraser to make a good look of the red part of it. Then I added the other one behind the first one to make the green part of the watermelon.then I made the seeds by ellipse tool.

Then I added pomegranates to my callender.First of all, I drew pomegranates by Pen tool.Secondly,I used mesh tool and eyedropper(I) to render them.

As a third step,I made a background for my calender.colored an rendered it with gardient tool.I made the stars by star tool and used a ellipse tool for the snow.I rendered snows by radial gardient.After that, I made a light by flare tool.I just wanted to make it nice.I made the callender's lines by pen tool.when I wanted to write the numbers I used the T tool.After all these,I highlighted the date that Yalda's festival is happened in it.

Then I made the children. I used pen tool and rounded rectangle tool for their bodies.After that,i rendered them with gardient.

First of all,I made my snowman. I made it by pen tool and ellipse tool.Then I rendered it by gardient tool.

Then I decided to paint 2 children;because I wanted to show they have been gathered toghether.

I added stars to show the night. after that,I added special fruits,because this fruits are eaten by people in this night.

i have chosen a snowman for my sketch,because the yalda's night happens in the first night of winter in persian callender. I have taken my idea froom this picture.

What is YALDA'S NIGHT.
This is a short describtion about this festival:
Yalda, a Syric word imported into the Persian language by the Syric Christians means birth (tavalud and melaad are from the same origin). It is a relatively recent arrival and it is refereed to the "Shab e Cheleh Festival" a celebration of Winter Solstice on December 21st. Forty days before the next major Persian festival "Jashn e Sadeh" this night has been celebrated in countless cultures for thousands of years. The ancient Roman festivals of Saturnalia (God of Agriculture, Saturn) and Sol Invicta (Sun God) are amongst the best known in the Western world.
The last day of the Persian month Azar is the longest night of the year, when the forces of Ahriman are assumed to be at the peak of their strength. While the next day, the first day of the month "Day" known as "khoram rooz" or "khore rooz" (the day of sun) belongs to Ahura Mazda, the Lord of Wisdom. Since the days are getting longer and the nights shorter, this day marks the victory of Sun over the darkness. The occasion was celebrated in the festival of "Daygan" dedicated to Ahura Mazda, on the first day of the month "Day" .
It is not clear when and how the world "Yalda" entered the Persian language. The massive persecution of the early Christians in Rome brought many Christian refugees into the Sassanin Empire and it is very likely that these Christians introduced and popularized "Yalda" in Iran. Gradually "Shab e Yalda" and "Shab e Cheleh" became synonymous and the two are used interchangeably.
Today "Shab e Cheleh" is merely a social occasion, when family and friends get together for fun and merriment. Different kinds of dried fruits, nuts, seeds and fresh winter fruits are consumed. The presence of dried and fresh fruits is reminiscence of the ancient feasts to celebrate and pray to the deities to ensure the protection of the winter crops.

I have chosen this callender for my assignment 2.

I have chosen one of the Iranian holidays named:YALDA's NIGHT.

This is my first sketch.