@neil-gaiman, I rejoined tumblr so you'd hopefully see this!
A Lego Art recreation of Dave McKean's cover to Sandman #1 (22 1/2 × 36 inches).
5,376 round 1x1s make up the portrait of Morpheus. I shifted the color tone to browns because it offered the most useable Lego pieces (and also because, you know, sand).
"You know me. We've met before. I have many names. I am the King of Dreams and Nightmares: I am Morpheus, Dream of the Endless"
( can you tell I ran out of clever captions? anyway I think this concludes my nightmare dream era for now! this was my own fun art exercise and I'm happy with the results! if you missed the other two illustrations here's the first one and here's the other one! )
The covers of the Sandman comics were always so orginal and captivating, being largely photographs of collage art pieces; will those play any part in the show, like as title cards, inspiration, or on camera recreations like Morpheus in the magic circle?
You know, lots of people think they were collaged, but they weren't. They were built...
Here are the covers to 1, 2 and 6 respectively.
And yes. If you keep an eye out in Burgess's mansion in Episode 1, you'll see a lot of the things on the shelves of the cover to #1 in display cases on his walls...
So this was a very ambitious thing to do to begin inktober month! I don’t think I’ll be able to do pieces like this for the whole month but I was both tempted by a whole set of ink brushes as I was by my lovely friend who inspired me to do my own version of a Hypnos Dream of the Endless @mathomhouse-e ( psss if you click here you’ll see her own wonderful Hypnos Dream!)
Thank you @orionsangel86 for organizing this wonderful event! I hope I can do more and see more wonderful art inspired by Sandman 🖤