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 Card for Magic the Gathering: “Streets of New Capenna”Basic Land - PlainsI was so excit Card for Magic the Gathering: “Streets of New Capenna”Basic Land - PlainsI was so excit

Card for Magic the Gathering: “Streets of New Capenna”
Basic Land - Plains
I was so excited to create several cards for the new Art Deco setting Magic the Gathering.


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You know what? I don’t like Lovecraft nor his writing. But a friend asked for some Cthulhu themed ar

You know what? I don’t like Lovecraft nor his writing. But a friend asked for some Cthulhu themed art for custom Magic the Gathering card sleeves so here we are. 

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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 



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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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the making of Something Old, Something New

TLDR: Paintings are Essays and stories of their own creation. This is how I Fan art. Fantasy Art is more than just dragons and wizards. I owe a lot of my integrity to the work of Wizards of the Coast.

If you don’t want to read it, thanks for being an audience, if you like this piece as much as I do, maybe consider buying a print HERE

So now and then, very rarely in recent times, you make the piece you are most proud of, what makes pieces like this, to you, so important is often they act like little essays of what’s going on in your mind captured in your visual artistic abilities.

Firstly, I only found out I was a part of the @lightgreyartgallery Gallery, Link HERE  (<= CLICK IT, there are some AMAZING artworks in there and I am humbled and honored to be amongst some of them) about 20 days after I should have, I had roughly ten days to make this piece happen. 
But this piece has been rattling around my head for a very long time, for multiple reasons I have wanted to paint my reimagining of Wurmcoil Engine for several months now, taking influence from Old Phyrexia moreso than it’s more smooth styles now, the old grimy exposed biomechanical monstrocities they were when they first struck fear into the multiverse of Mtg. And I have loved drawing gnarled monstrous teeth since I was like, 14 and found my first salvation from the Anime style black hole, with the work of Dave Allsop.

The piece clicked after a while of me researching angels and their less common eldritch appearance, I love angel mythology because it’s some of the first cases when Fantasy Art as we first would understand it, was born, when artists, with patronage from the church, began to capture the more mythological visuals in a realistic believable way, these were the stepping stones towards imaginative realism, and with this classical painters began adding realism to images of the Minotaur and Gorgons. Naturally tribute goes to Frazetta and his pulp colleagues for making Fantasy Art a valid genre of Art, but Angels and Demons have their seats at some of the earliest forms of what we now know as fantasy art.
In this there are many scriptures that make the ranks of angels far more than just winged humans, ranging to anthropomorphic shoggoths of wings and animals to 6 winged seraphim covered in eyes and the strange mechanical flying objects of the ophanim or thrones. In taking inspiration for these and looking up eldritch angels, finding the obvious references being made with the Eldrazi as they stretch between @bugmeyer art and the Angel Eldrazi of Shadows over Innistrad. Suddenly my speculative Vorthos fired up and I couldn’t stop thinking of this simple story I wanted to tell.

So, there’s a fairly obvious storytelling theme a lot of my work recently, it’s an inevitable marriage of what I want to draw and paint from what’s inspiring me, and a drive to improve the storytelling purposes of illustration, there’s an easy way to tell a story visually and that’s through duality. Duality is simple, it’s a clear and obvious conflict presented to an audience, old vs new, mechanical vs natural, good vs evil, light vs dark or simple, Thing vs ANOTHER Thing that isn’t the first Thing: This was sort of struck on when I found the work of @gallerygerard and I was hooked, there’s a lot of pieces depicting smaller warriors facing off Balrogs or Giant Wolves and the narrative being presented is inescapable, so yeah, I wanted to be able to do that too. So this piece is definitely not the last of something like this I’ll do, I hardly think I’ve mastered the simple diorama of this at all, but this piece was definitely all because I started pushing for that. (also helps that I can make some money off designs like this because they make killer playmats.)

So before I get to Magic and it’s influence on me… I need to talk about Paint.
I am not a painter, every time I have attempted to mark a canvas or board with wet or traditional has failed horribly and I escaped to the confines and safety of digital from a young age, on the upside it’s definitely saved me a LOT of money avoiding paint, but truly, I never really have touched it all again. But then I gave a good proper look at the work of Ryan Pancoast,Steve Prescott and the Man who taught me about colour, Jesper Ejsing . I have SO much respect for their work, nothing comes close to how much a piece inspires me as seeing it in physical paint, there’s a strange sort of magic (hehe) with the bravery of what is being done with a brush to capture wholly what makes a piece unique when it’s literal material smeared, dabbed and layered on a canvas. I tried to capture this by making the design intricate and filled with visual eccentricity and natural texture, as well as using the literal shape of marks made to really push the values to try to tell a bolder narrative with this piece. I cannot list the ways I think I failed at this, but I only want to learn and keep practicing when a piece like this comes just a little close to capturing that magic. An additional mention on the artists above, the pure bravery of making work that looks so perfectly not of this world in an industry plagued by stoic realism is nothing but inspiring, I truly want to achieve as Elsing puts it: “a window looking into another world.“

Interestingly I struggle with fan art, every now and then there’s a thing I like at the time so I make something to celebrate it, I however often lose interest before making it an actually good ‘to my own standard‘. Magic allows me to still stretch my own creative wings, my own imagination being allowed to play amongst an established universe that no other Fan Art allows me to. Magic’s art direction told me it was okay to be a bit weird. It’s no secret that I aspire to work on Magic the Gathering art, to give contributions that could only come from myself and aren’t just attempts to be ‘that kid who makes art that looks like it was made by Prescott/Ejsing‘ so the eclecticism there, while attempting to learn the secrets their work holds and putting it into my work. I love the fact that through the years I’ve seen work come out of Mtg, that has truly allowed artists to put their own unique vision into a game with such a flowing world.
To follow the gushing about Mtg, this card game has had a massive effect on my development, whilst it’s definitely John Howe’s Smaug to be the piece that opened a door to me to Fantasy Art, it was also a little card called Vizzerdrix from Starter, that fully made me fall in love with Magic’s art, that made sure that one of my aspirations would be to make art alongside pieces like it. Once I’d grown up a bit Magic’s art and art direction allowed me to discover artists, some already mentioned, that would show me how it’s done: Throughout my portfolio in the past I have made little attempts at the sharp lighting and texture of a Tyler Jacobson facet orthe bold journey of colour through an Ejsing andthe brave shape of a Raymond Swanland .
And I’d be lying if I didn’t mention that Magic has taught me both a love of games and the value in just going outside and meeting someone new, and having a conversation with someone over our mutual love of slinging spells, beating people’s faces in with an array of creatures and the elegant game of drawing and flopping cards. 
I love that whilst I needed it to be there for me, Magic was, from the fact that when I’ve been at my lowest darkest moments, I could go out and enjoy playing Magic with someone, to the marvelous time of becoming more aware of challenging myself with more diversity to my characters and worlds, Magic’s art and story seemed to agree. Thank you Magic.

So here’s this piece, what I see as my way to pay tribute to 25 years (that’s almost my age) of Magic the Gathering, it’s only a whisper of it’s effect and influence on me whilst I am hoping it feels as awesome a piece as I feel it is right at this moment.

This month is insanity for me, my participation in the Gallery is a true first, my partially developed tabletop game Disastles is making massive progress over on Kickstarter (please take a look at that HERE) and that product and the relationships it’s making are laying the groundwork for something to be announced in the near future which is literally a career moment for me. I needed to just talk about this exact moment in time and I am so happy that I have this piece that’s just a small snippet of my life where a lot is going on, as in every life, and it’s just (as Fantasy Art almost always is) a lot more than a monster fighting another monster.
Thanks for reading if you did
I tried to share a lot of my influences both for context but especially because if you like art, you owe it to yourself to know some of these names and see their work, I owe so much to them myself


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Customer pics *NOT ME*! This is a Chandra commission I made for a customer, she looks so beautiful &

Customer pics *NOT ME*! This is a Chandra commission I made for a customer, she looks so beautiful & I’m so stoked to have pics like this to share!!! I just disclaimer bc often when I post clients ppl assume it’s me
Client/model: @emmaskyeward
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