I wanted to study at a hyper-realistic level two elements of the human face that I normally tended to draw less carefully: nose and mouth. I wanted to explore their textures, so I chose a model with fair and freckled skin.
I asked myself how to make the result communicative without entrusting the expression to the eyes as I generally use to do. I decided I would make it through the lack of them. As I drew all those black and white marks on the skin, I imagined that I was creating a man made of sand. I remembered the legend of the Sandma, who throws sand into children's eyes. I imagined my Sandman without eyes, maybe covered in sand, or even sandy. I thought: "perhaps, as a child he fell victim to the same fate, and that's what made him become the Sandman"?
I only used graphite pencils, kneaded eraser and an eraser pen. The drawing itself is 17x22cm and it's made on a 24x33cm Fabriano F4 sheet of smooth paper.
The artwork is sold with certificate of authenthicity and a 30x40cm passepartout, so it's ready to be framed but the
frame is not included.
