Santa's portrait

Hey guys, I’ve decided to participate in this year’s Christmas competition at Blenderguru; the idea for the final image is still kinda fuzzy but it will surely be a close up of Santa’s face (maybe a magazine cover…). I want to create something stylised but also somewhat realistic. Does that make any sense? Hehe

Anyway here’s an early sculpt of the head with a rough take on the beard.

There’s still a LOT of things to do, but for now this is what I’ve managed to do, taking a time off has been really difficult this days…




Finally had some time to work on this project today. So I decided to do a quick paintover on a screenshot to set the composition and the general tone. The final piece will be a magazine cover featuring Santa (Rolling Stones maybe? hehe). What do you guys think?


Here’s the reference I’m using:


I’ll try to do some more work on it this weekend.