ImagineFX 102 - Be Clever With Your Colors tutorial

Want to learn ALL my secrets? Want to see how I go about making a painting from start to finish? Want to hear me rant for an hour and a half like a crazy person as I narrate and discuss my painting process? Then you NEED to pick up the December issue of ImageFX (#102)! That's right, in issue 102 of ImageFX I have a 4 page tutorial focusing the creation of a battling pair of monsters... did I say monster?! Yes I did, and here they are...

Be Clever With Your Colors - Tutorial

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My copy of ImagineFX #102 arrived recently and it was definitely an unexpected surprise. I am not sure this issue is even out in the US yet. To give you a sneak peek of what you can expect from me in issue 102 here are some poor scans of my article...

Be Clever With Your Colors - Tutorial pages 1-2

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Be Clever With Your Colors - Tutorial pages 3-4

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To get the entire experience as well as the rest of the magazine full of other GREAT article and information I strongly suggest you picking up a copy as soon as possible. For those who just can't wait to experience me ranting and raving, here is the accompanying youtube video that goes along with this tutorial, now you too will know all my secrets...

Adventures with Applibot

I have been doing some work for Applibot's Legend of the Cryptids lately and it has been a blast so far. Here are a few of the pieces I have painted for them to date.

The Ruler of Shadows

The Military Undead

Darkness

Eidolon and the Phantom Beast

New Applibot sets

Over the past few months I had the opportunity to illustrate two "card" sets for Legend of the Cryptids, and one for Galaxy Saga. Applibot is really fun to work with, as their art descriptions are very brief, and they give artists a lot of creative freedom.

Life Drawing

First of all, big sorry for the fact that I haven't been contributing much to the Shadowcore blog lately. I was working on a lot of NDA stuff and wasn't able to show much. When I was not working, I was not drawing much - in fact, I was happy to not draw at all! I went outdoors, met friends and stayed off of distracting factors from everyday life as much as possible. Only to find out that taking time off was exactly what inspired me most and made me want to draw for myself again.

For about six weeks now I'm going to a weekly life drawing class in Cork. And they are brilliant! Not only do they have great models of all body types, they also play music, serve free tea and cake and the company you get for the evening is super creative and inspiring. I can only recommend it to everyone: Go and look if there's a life drawing class somewhere near you. It makes such a difference and is THE best way to study human anatomy and posings. No Google image search or online figure drawing archive can beat that.

Right, I stop here and upload some drawings from the past weeks. Enjoy the boobies!

Theors - Magic the Gathering

Tyler has posted some of his work for Theros, the newest set for Magic the Gathering, so I figured it was about time I did the same. Theors is the first set of Magic that I have worked on and I got to create two cards for the set. The Catoblepas was based on design work for the set, but for the Hippocamp I got to design and illustrate it. Here is how they turned out...

"Loathsome Catoblepas" - Magic the Gathering - Theros

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"Breaching Hippocamp" - Magic the Gathering - Theros

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I was invited to my first Magic prerelease event over the weekend which allowed me to get my hands on my cards! After not playing Magic for 17 years it was great to reconnect with the players and the game. Here are how the cards turned out...

That is all for my current Magic work... but I have a lot more recent work to share with you very soon! RAWR!

Theros Cards

Here are a couple cards that I had in the Theros set.  Very fun world to work in.

Ordeal of Erebos

Voyaging Satyr

New MtG Cards: Dragon's Maze and M14

Here are a few recent cards I did for Magic the Gathering.

Ætherling - MtG Dragon's Maze

Ruric Thar, The Unbowed - MtG Dragon's Maze

Syphon Sliver - MtG M14

Dawnstrike Paladin - MtG M14

The funny thing about Dawnstrike is that it was one of the very first cards I ever painted for MtG. I guess they finally ended up using it, which is great!  I did it along with the card Sneak Attack (below) which was only available in a promo pack.

Sneak Attack - Promo Card

Theros!!!

With the announcement of Magic the Gathering's latest release of Theros, here is some of the key art I created.  Both feature the planeswalker Elspeth.

Elspeth slays the Hydra

Detail

Elspeth Box Art

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