#mtgart
i have never understood or played magic the gathering, but i have nothing but respect for it after seeing this tittieless snake woman
you could have gone the easy route. you could have given her titties. but you didn’t. cause she’s a reptile. thank you mtg. thank you.
She is feeling FreshandFabulous.
SHE SURE IS because she is literally finishing up a shed there, look, you can see the last of it clinging to her tail
but she’s already dressed again, after peeling off the skin that would previously have been under that armor
the only logical conclusion here is that she wanted a picture of herself at her SHINIEST and PRETTIEST and hurried to get dressed once enough of her fresh and shiny new skin was uncovered
I bet her bestie took the picture and has been eagerly waiting with the magical fantasy camera for like, hours
“oh my GOD T’sissra your scales are SO VIBRANT this picture is going to be AMAZING”
Extra bonus points because she used that skin as part of her backdrop. Its like a banner behind her head.
‘Out with the old, in with the glam!’
I read “finishing up a shed” and for a few microseconds I was like “sexy AND an accomplished carpenter”
I love every addition to this post. :D especially the last one.
also, for those curious? the art is by James Ryman (you can KIND OF faintly see this printed in the watermark but not everybody has good vision, so it’s worth noting! that link on his name goes to Gatherer’s complete list of cards he’s done illustration for, which is quite a few turns out)
it was for the card “Naga Vitalist”, a card which is from the 2017 set called Amonkhet; she’s a Naga Druid creature, with an ability that gives you access to extra mana! you can read more about the card, including rulings on the mechanics of it and the legality in various formats of the game, on WotC’s Gatherer database, here: https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=426878
and no, for the record, I didn’t know which card it was just off the top of my head - I only play MtG very VERY casually, and then only because the spouse plays avidly (and thus has a gazillion cards I can borrow and knows how to advise on deck construction lol).
but, BUT
I do LOVE this art, it’s fabulous and I don’t CARE that it’s not current for Standard or even that I barely even play I - kinda want it?? just for the art??
so - how to ID it?
protip: I solved the dilemma in like literally 2 seconds when I “reverse image search”ed it (which you can do on Google with a mere right-click on the image from Chrome to get to the correct menu!) and this immediately provided the “closest match” (in this case the Correct Image!) and the Gatherer link above, because the image of course is on part of the page as well.
if any of you reading this ever need to find the artist behind an image (or in this case, identify a specific piece of media or item) when you only have the image, you can use Google’s Reverse Image Search for that, works quite well! :)
use this knowledge well, my friends
Contest winner!
Zendikar Themed Puresteel Paladin
Thank you everyone for entering!
1000 follower thank you contest!
I’m happy to know that so many of you enjoy what I’m doing. Even if about half is unused bots, lol. As a way to show my appreciation, I wanted to give someone the chance to get a free magic card art alteration (digital) to use however you’d like.
Here’s how it’s going to work:
All you have to do is reblog this post, saying the card you want, and the kind of art you want for it. You don’t have to be following me for the contest, but you do have to reblog while commenting. Just commenting won’t be enough.
Rules:
It has to be Safe for work.
To keep things on brand, it has to be magic related. Things like grand abolisher but from Tarkir. A phyrexian commander alt. Anything magic related. Wanting a commander alt with Darth Vader will be disqualified.
Comment with your idea.
How the winner is picked:
Out of all the reblogs, I’ll be picking 20 users who comment with my favourite ideas and from those 20 I will be randomly drawing to pick the actual winner.
CONTEST ENDS: August 22, 2019 and the winner will be picked within the following week.
I’m excited to see what you all want! If you sadly don’t get the art I will do similar contests on my other social media locations once I hit the same kind of numbers.
Hey everyone! I know that when I post the art it takes a while to post the blog post that goes with it, so I’d like to thank you all for your patience. This is, of course, a hardened scales for my Ghave commander deck. My idea to get the “scale” effect for Ghave was thinking of artichokes. And I tried to make the harden effect look like metapod’s hardening in pokemon.
I’d love to hear if you guys have ideas for the kind of flavor text I should use for this card.
Oh one final thing, I’m like… 7 followers away from hitting 1000 followers. So expect the next post to be about a contest to get a free alt like this.
Card: Harden Scales
Commander: Ghave, Guru of Spores
Gishath, Sun’s Avatar
Ok folks! I’m finally done with the backlog of commissions and can start posting some of the other stuff I’ve been working on this week. Which will let me start posting just the art again.
The person wanted a skeleton gishath for the actual card, plus a custom card they designed. The custom card is RBG so I think the art fits the custom card a little more then gishath.
Marchesa, the Black Rose
I’m so happy to share this one! The person who wanted it had such a vision and goal I was so happy to bring it to life for them.
I started doing these altered arts for this very reason. Making a commander deck feel more like a story and not be restricted to only cards printed from specific sets. I truly hope they play the hell out of a marchesa phyrexian deck.
Ok. Now I’m gunna post my own personal art soon now that I’m out of commisions.
Animar, Soul of Elements
Hey everyone! I’m back again showing off my next commission I was asked for. They wanted animar and we decided to go with an Emrakul feel this time around. I had so much fun with this one. I can’t thank them enough for coming to me.
Getting these requests has really helped with being able to actually call these pieces finished. I have 1 more commission in the works and after that I’ll start sharing my own personal art again as the single image posts.
Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
Another commish I’d like to share! People really want the eldrazi stuff it seems…
This was neat for me because it was a commander I would never have done for myself personally. It’s not even for an eldrazi themed commander deck if I understood the request right. Just that they really like the eldrazi lol.
I got more I can show soon too. Plus I’m really trying to finish some of my own stuff. I have a kaladesh Sensei’s Divining top coming up and an azorius consecrated sphinx.
Also I’m super close to having 1000 followers! That means a lot to me. Maybe I’ll do something special like a free alt art for someone.. anywho have a good one!
Vial Smasher the Feirce and Thrasios, Triton Hero
Hey guys, sorry for the long absence. I haven’t gotten around to finishing any personal card arts this year so far.
This was actually a commission. The first one I’ve ever excepted. These two partner commanders where what they used for an eldrazi commander deck and wanted them to fit the eldrazi flavour. I had so much fun with the vial smasher but didn’t feel I got thrasios to the same level, but still enough to call complete
I don’t know if this means I’m going to start opening up to commissions or not.. anyone’s more then welcome to ask. But I have to feel confident enough in task and excited enough in the content in order to feel ok doing such a thing.
Well, this is it. My final post of the year. Im going to hijack this blog post for lord of exctiction to talk about 2018 too.
First off this card.. I had such big plans.. I was going to do 13 card arts for my jarad deck leading up to halloween. And all the cards pretty much build up to lord of exctiction since its pretty much a “i win” with jarad.. but lots of stuff got in the way and then when I missed halloween I just made this one cause it was what I was most excited about.
A lot of 2018 has been me hoping to get these done at a cetain time but not living up to it. I wasnt even going to post art this year. Was going to build up a giant backlog so I could keep consistant updates. But im pretty glad I posted.
In 2018 i went through 5 sketchbooks, started many digital paintings and finished and posted 9 of them.. thats insane to me. I dont think ive ever posted more then 2 peices of art in a year my whole life and ive never once finished a sketchbook. This has been the best year I have ever had doing art and im aiming to accomplish so much more in 2019..
This is the back log of just magic art I have piling up (not including other fan art and original art, or all the magic card art sketches in my sketchbook I have yet to scan) im hoping to get as much of it finished as possible this year plus however many new ones I can’t help but start up.
Thank you guys so much for enjoying what im doing.
Lord of Extinction
Hey everyone, I am back with something not for a commander deck, but a kaladesh themed cube. I actually started this one with just drawing a random demon with no card in mind lol. It eventually fell into place as rune scarred
While I am happy with this one, I am nowhere near the beauty of the original. Unlike most of my proxies I’ve done so far, aside from the themed art on this one, I would rather use the original.
I’ve been trying to give more background to these pieces. I still got a lot to learn but I hope im figuring it out.
Playmat for my first drawing (now with extended art) is available here :
https://www.inkedgaming.com/products/tortured-soul-playmat
Be sure to let me know if there are any other paintings of mine youd like to see on a playmat.
Rune-Scarred Demon
Tortured Soul Playmat
Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of new art. I will have stuff to post really soon.
But as for now, I have extended the art of this piece to be used for playmats which I have set up here:
https://www.inkedgaming.com/products/tortured-soul-playmat
If there is any other art I have done you guys would be interested to have as a playmat, be sure to let me know.
Vigor
This is an important picture. I’ve held off from posting it so far because its the very first one i started working on for this proxy project. Im definitely not as proud of this one for that reason tho.
This was essensially the whole reason i wanted to make these proxies. Auriok champion is a card i have in my ghave, guru of spores commander deck. Its a card i quite enjoy having in it. But i reached a certain point where i really wanted the flavour or the deck to be something i built around.
Ghave is basically at war with humans. So it would be wrong to have any humans in the deck. This worked for me and i had such a admiration for the deck i didnt before. All my fungus creatures and on theme art. But it was missing a lot of cards that kept it competitive with my playgroup.
So i started with auriok champion. Figured ghave would infect and use the fleshy bodies for his army.
The reason im not as happy with this one tho is early on i had the idea of pretty much copying or re working original arts of the cards. I have since moved on to doing whatever i feel like drawing for it now, but this is a reminder to me of where it all started. I debated just starting this one over but figured id make use of the time i spent on it.