"You DARE have fun in my presence?" • Tera S Art

Digital painting portrait of Pitch Black, the Boogeyman, as he appears in the film “Rise of the Guardians.” He is a tall, angular, pale man with bluish gray skin, golden eyes, and black hair. He’s wearing black robes. He’s lit from the back by a full moon. Cropped close-up

I would post Pitch’s portrait on Jack’s birthday, wouldn’t I? Anyway, now I’m done with my Guardian portraits.

Pitch was not originally part of the plan. I mean, technically it was supposed to just be a one-off portrait of Jack.

But, once I did Tooth’s portrait, I thought it would be nice to have a portrait of each of the Guardians done for the film’s anniversary.

Then I thought, if I have time before the anniversary, I should do one of Pitch, too. Bunny and Sandy wound up taking a lot less time than I expected them to, so here Pitch is.

He is so angular, his face is like 80% cheekbone, so I had to make some adjustments to adapt him from the Dreamworks style to mine. But I had fun with him, and the moment I put him in shadow, he felt so much more correct.

I debated over whether I should give him eyebrows or not, and I decided not to. I also gave his robe thing a bit of a collar, it just felt like it should be there.

Process gif showing sketch through completion of the digital painting

“You DARE have fun in my presence?”