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.

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

Rune-Scarred Demon

This vigor art is one of my newer ones. Unlike many others that I am going to post where i started it a while back and juat finally decided to finish them up.

There was really no reason for me to do new vigor art. The original would work rather fine in a ghave commander deck. My main reason before was because it wasnt reprinted in the new border and was expensive. But that all changed with battlebond.

But all in all I’m glad I went through with it. This is one of the proxy arts I am more proud of at the moment.

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.

Auriok Champion