Ever since my baby girl was born a few months ago, I started reading to her the very beatyfull Jill Thompson's "The Little Endless Storybook". From all the books my wife and I got to her, some new and others from our on collection, this one became by far her farovite.
It has been a delight to me reading this book for her since I got to spend a little more time with some of my favorite characters ever, the endeless family from Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe.
For some time now I've been wanting to make a fan art featuring any of Neil Gaiman's characters, I though about giving a face to Shadow, Wednesday, or the Anansi's borthers (the list could go on and on), but since I've been sharing this new world with my baby girl I decided to make her some baby friends.
Creating the Scene:
First I knew I couldn't make it too big so I wouldn´t finish it.
Then, I started to think about the Sandman universe.
I know, as Cain has already said, the endless were never babys and kids. But if they were, they weren´t "born" all at the same time, so they would be, in apperance, one a little older than the other.
Based on this I decided to make the first three. Destiny, Death and Dream. The scene could pass in a time before all the seven existed. Maybe the three of then were spending some time in the older brother's realm, just hagging out.
Base on this ideia, and after a few scketchs I knew what I wanted.
The project was first called "The beggining, in a Garden". But I quickly desliked this name.
I started to call it "A little Nightmare in Destiny's Garden", which I thought it was more like a great Short film name, and I couldn't loose my focus making this project bigger than I could handle right now.
So I just named it "In Destiny's Garden".
This is the process tho creating the scene. I hope you like it
Thank you Neil, thank you Jill.
HD FINAL IMAGE - http://imageshack.com/a/img823/8619/miva.jpg
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