New work for MtG

Here are some more or less recent illustrations I did for Magic: the Gathering! As always, prints are available over at inprnt.

Lovisa Coldeyes

Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun

Blur of Blades

Elvish Spirit Guide

Tishana, Voice of Thunder

Huatli, Dinosaur Knight

Kaladesh

These illustrations were released in Magic: the Gathering's Kaladesh set. I loved the India-inspired setting!

As always, you can get prints of these on inprnt.

Contraband Kingpin

Highspire Artisan

Kujar Seedsculptor

MtG Eldritch Moon

Liliana, the Last Hope

This card from the Eldritch Moon set was recently spoiled, so here is the full image. I really enjoyed painting Liliana - she's my favorite planeswalker!

You can get prints on inprnt!

ImagineFX Issue 136

I recently had the pleasure of painting ImagineFX magazine's latest cover image!

ImagineFX - CreativeBloq

If you get the chance to pick up a copy of the magazine, there is a step-by-step tutorial showing how I've painted this image, including several Photoshop brushes and layered .psd files.

There is also a 3-hour-long video showing the entire painting process (sped up) with a bit of additional talking and explaining from yours truly. :)

Shadows over Innistrad

Some vampire Illustrations I did for Magic: The Gathering's Shadows over Innistrad!

Ravenous Bloodseeker giftbox promo

Falkenrath Gorger

Indulgent Aristocrat

And a double-faced card:

Elusive Tormentor Buy-A-Box promo

Insidious Mist Buy-A-Box promo

Yay, vampires! I really loved working on this set - Innistrad might be my favorite plane.

Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays and a great new year to all of you!

M:tG - Return to Zendikar

Long time no update! These are the illustrations I painted for the M:tG Battle for Zendikar expansion. As usual, you can buy prints of these through inprnt!

Bloodbond Vampire

Dutiful Return

Seek the Wilds

Stone Haven Medic

If you are interested in winning a signed artist proof of an MtG card of your choice, a great anatomy book and a 1-on-1 portfolio review/mentoring session, feel free to check out the winter themed art challenge I posted about here.

M:tG!

Magic: The Gathering - Anointer of Champions, ©Wizards of the Coast

Magic: The Gathering - Blessed Spirits, ©Wizards of the Coast

It's almost a year ago since I got to paint these first two card illustrations for Magic: the Gathering. Working with Wizards of the Coast has been a blast ever since :)

Get prints on inprnt!
Unfortunately there are no original sketches for these available, since they were painted entirely in Photoshop. Since a bunch of people have been asking about that though, I will try to do future sketches in traditional media!

Quick Studies

Some recent studies, all of them fairly quick - just trying to get a grasp of certain lighting situations etc. :)

Commemorative paintings

While I've made it a point to paint something for various events throughout these past months, I've neglected to post them here! So here are my paintings for Halloween and International Self Portrait Day, as well as this year's Christmas card. Happy holidays and a great new year, everyone!

Halloween!

1 Nov, International Self Portrait Day, 2h from life (mirror)

And while this one doesn't go with any holiday (I think!), it was still great fun to do. A cover for the Warhammer 40000 Sisters of Battle Codex :)

Livestream paintings & a new LoC set

Here are some of the things I've been painting during my live streams. First a still life of Sailor Moon's Moon Stick, which I just happened to have lying around ;)

These other three are based on Pokemon Fusion, a fun little tool that (randomly) merges two Pokémon from the first generation, often creating terrifying results.
You can watch the process for all of these on my livestream channel!

And lastly, here is another set of cards I did for Applibot's Legend of the Cryptids a while back, which was recently released.

Magic potions still life

First off, some quick portrait studies from various photo references. Each one took about 15-20 minutes.

This still life setup was supposed to somewhat resemble a wizard's desk. I'll probably try something like that again at some point - once I've gathered a lot more magical-looking stuff!

Since I always love a good zombie/infected story, I quite enjoyed The Last of Us. So here's a portrait sketch of Joel! On my LiveStream channel you can watch most of the process (after the stream I looked at some reference and edited my sketch to get a closer likeness).

Studies, Sketches + Brush!

First off, here are two quick landscape studies, done to test out some brushes. You can watch the entire process of the second one somewhere towards the end of this recorded livestream.


This one was an exercise in brush economy, based on photo reference by kouma-stock. It was done in a little more than 4 hours over the course of ten days.

And finally, another quick ASoIaF character portrait, this time of Stannis Baratheon. You can download the the sketching brush I used for most of this one and The Old Bear from my deviantArt sta.sh !