Sandman is done!

Digital painting portrait of the Sandman as he appears in the film β€œRise of the Guardians.” He is a short, round, smiling man with very tall golden hair that curls at the ends, creating a slight star shape. He is wearing some pajamas made out of golden sparkling dream sand. Cropped close-up Cropped close-up Cropped close-up

“πŸŽ΅πŸβ¬†οΈπŸŒ™!!”

I have drawn Sandy before, but this is my first finished portrait of him. I had to do some studies first because I had no idea how to really approach this, as he’s such an interesting combination of human and otherworldly.

I leaned into his hair being a bit more like it is in the books. I ran into a similar problem with his hair as I did with Tooth’s feathers in that it’s really symmetrical in the film and if you’re going for symmetry in art, it looks really bad if you’re even a little off. So, like with Tooth’s feathers, I wanted to put a bit of movement and asymmetry into Sandy’s hair.

Something I love about doing fan art is that I end up noticing things about the character designs and costumes that I might not have noticed before. I knew Sandy had sand clothes but it turns out there’s also some sparkly dream sand in his hair at any given time.

… and now this just leaves Bunny. He will be an adventure for sure.

Process gif showing rough sketched to finished painting

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