Who is the best MtG artist and why is it Daarken?

>>54249284
That's not how you spell Ron Spencer OR Phil Foglio

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Donato Giancola begs to differ.

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>>54249367
My fav, next to Baga.
>dem hands

>>54249303

That's not how you spell ZOLTAN BOROS

Best artist and best name

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>implying its not Terese Nielsen

>>54250037
>>implying its not Terese Nielsen
Good taste, but Rebecca Guay is slightly better.

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>>54249367
>those man-hands. Is that an Italian trap?

Also, best artist coming through

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>>54252059
my nigga

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>>54249284
>not Terese Nielsen
>not Rebecca Guay
>not Jason Chan
Any artist other than these 3 is a literally who. Face facts.

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>>54252059
Mah niggas.

>>54249303
I must be the only person i the world to unironically like Ron Spencer aside of his close family relatives.

It's like Jojo in between endless haremshit.

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>>54252176
Ron Spencer's art is very good, magic would be better if it had more Spencer

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>>54252176
I can see the appeal of Spencer's art but to me he overdoes his style and as a result the characters portrayed a lot of the time just look like a lump of lines.

I have a soft spot for Blatant Thievery though.

Purely for nostalgia reasons Quinton Hoover is pretty high up the list for me.


...and no not JUST because of Earthbind.

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>no love for Richard Kane Ferguson
His style is immediatley recognizable and I think he portrays the abstract parts of magic very well.

>>54253686
His art always seems really busy and visually noisy, if you get what I mean.
The only card of his that I like is Jasmine Boreal, all of the other card arts he's done are really hard to tell what's going on and have no real clear focus imo.

So any opinions on Daarkens art? Any fans?

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>>54249284
>best artist
You spelled Seb Mckinnon wrong, anon.

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>>54253686
>RKF
this guy knows what's up

I like Mark Tedin a lot too. Not as impressionist though.

>>54253782
I like busy noisy shit, haven't really ever had a problem figuring out what was going on in card art. Hot opinions coming up, but I find it a lot more interesting that most of the contemporary focus on literalism.

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>>54253782
>His art always seems really busy and visually noisy, if you get what I mean.
That's the point. It's busy and messy because it's just an impression of the concept, something that your imagination is supposed to expand on.

It can be hard to see a lot of the detail of his art on the size of a card, though. I wish there was some easier way to get access to larger prints. Same goes for a lot of mtg artists, really.

>>54254009
>Based Seb

mah fuckin nigga

Muh chippy

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>>54254365
Forgot pic

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>>54249284
Whoever painted this is best MTG Artist

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Favorite art, artist, and card in the game

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my favorite card

>>54255022
Ah, a Nils Hamm fan like me.
I like you.

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>>54255022
>>54255305
I too like Nils.
I also very much like Rebecca Guay but it feels like everyone does.

Will they ever have hand drawn/not so "realistic" art ever again? Seems like everything after the Shadowmoor era has been progressively getting more digitized and "realistic".

>>54254404
That island is the reason I fell in love with Chippy. Easily my favorite land in magic, and I fucking hate blue as a color.

>>54255776
>Seems like everything after the Shadowmoor era has been progressively getting more digitized and "realistic".

That's on purpose. Around the same time the Nu-Walkers came out Wizards began tightening up on card art in an effort to create a recognizable M:TG visual identity. It's part of Wizard's attempt to get new people into the hobby. Wizards has no intention of going back.

Some artists get a little more leeway than others, but generally speaking Wizards really wants artists to stick to the Style Guide nowadays.

>>54255894
For me at least, WOTC ramrodding a consistent visual style is what stripped MTG of a visual identity

I couldn't even name one of the more recent artists to you, how little anything stands out from the pack, but I could name a dozen MTG artists of yore that I love

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>>54252160
>not Pudd'nhead
Cmon

>>54255993
Is the top one Chinese version?

>>54256037
Im not sure

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Rk post, Kev Walker (some are meh but sheer amount of gems is respectable), John Avon and many others. I pity that Dan Seagrave only had like 2 pieces comissioned, it would be great if they gave him so more. Pic related would be a great UR shockland/fetchland.

>>54255894
>>54255962
Seriously, who in WotC thought this was a good idea? The art of magic is one of the most beloved aspects of it. It's amazing and some of the best fantasy art out there.

Some good pieces make it through, but the digital moder art overall looks so bland and generic and lacks any kind of identity. It's really sad. I got back into magic this past fall having quit during Mirrodin Besieged and every new set to come out I feel more and more disappointed when I look at it.

There was some good stuff to come from sets I missed like Innistrad and Theros. Sad I wasnt playing then.

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How is this even a question?

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like seriously.

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tedin is the man.

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Chris Rahn is up there for me.

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Overall Clint Clearly is kinda eh, but his art for Candelabra is goddamn incredible.

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>>54256037
>>54256120
Mentioning death in any way or form is an extreme taboo in China.

Skulls = dead people = not allowed

Anything that is translated to Chinese gets completely stripped from any mention of "death".

Death Knights in world of warcraft for instance are named Void Knights. All undeads are just pale humans. They replaced all models of meat or bones in the game with models of bread.

>>54256394
Somehow they missed the dinosaur skull and the ribcage in the image I gave, but I guess they can't catch everything.

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I am sad because apparently Lord of thePit was already posted in another thread because it won't let me post it here, and that is my favorite Tedin Card, but he has a whole ton of them that I love.

>>54249284
I prefer Kev Walker or Rebecca Guay.

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>>54252103
rk post is the main man

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>>54254404
Faggot doesn't have any of his shit posted online, he has like a blog from a decade ago or something and no other web presence. Give me that Esper basic lands art in high rez you nigger jew faggot kike cuck pollock blonde dick shitter

Also, the correctly best artist is Claymore J. Flapdoodle. But Magic art would be boring if it didn't have a whole bunch of different artists. Even the bad art serves its place by making the better art stand out more.

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>>54249284
Am I the only person that unironically loves art by Wayne Reynolds?

Terese Nielsen, Chippy, Seb McKinnon, and that woman who did the good full art lands from Zendikar are all top tier. Izumi is also great.

>>54250037
>>54249447
>>54249367
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>>54256274
Man, I really miss the days before MtG turned all samey with their house style guide. I miss when the art had some fuckin character to it.

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>>54256127
>the guy who drew the cover art for Left Hand Path, Altars of Madness, Effigy of the Forgotten, and Like an Everflowing Stream also did magic artwork
Neat

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>>54256618
I'm very fond of Goblin Spymaster's art.

I think my favorite is unironically Raymond Swanland though, his art has a nice character to it.

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For me it will always be Kaja (occasionally with Phil)

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Ken Meyer, Jr. Mostly because I comissioned him and it came out amazing

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>>54256691

It's wierd for me, because Tedin was essentially the guy who defined the style for a lot of the oldschool stuff. Almost all phyrexian stuff draws directly from how he made them.

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>>54256618
Wayne's great. As much as people rag on him for his crazy overdesigned characters, I love his style.

Brom was always a favorite of mine, especially for his Greel and Latulla.

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>>54256618
Reynold's art for RPGs sucks ass, but his art for MTG isn't universally terrible.

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>>54256808

Dark ritual is one of those cards where almost every version looks good.

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>>54256618
I love to shit on him because I don't like his style.

HOWEVER, I'd also say that at least he has a distinctive style that he commits to, and he's really good at portraying action in a very static medium.

I'd take a set done entirely by Reynolds than more art by the monster responsible for pic related.

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>>54256808

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>>54254422
Some people would probably argue that is correct.

Fay Jones did the art for the card Stasis and she is a very well respected and award winning painter. Stasis is the only card she ever illustrated for Magic. She did the card art as a favor for her nephew Richard (Garfield) who was making a card game and needed artwork.

style guide literally ruined mtg

>>54256898
Still better than the card from when Nissa and Chandra were locked in the vault.

>>54256898
Jesus Christ, how horrifying.

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>>54257025
I'll raise you.

>>54256618
I hate the fact that he's got that weird stylized shading that not only makes things look flat, but sort of calls attention to itself.

It's fine to have a style, but for me WR's style lands smack dab right in the center of the uncanny valley between realism and shading-free flat 2D obviously-cartoon styles (like FLCL or Ed Edd & Eddy or something.)
I can respect his art, and I even sort of think his crazy overdesigned characters can be charming in their own way, but I can't stand the style.

>>54257049
>"Beefslab. Teehee."

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>>54257049

>>54256898
Background looks more like a disneyland attraction than a city.

>>54256691
They're showing signs that they're reverting back to more stylistic allowance. There's one common fro HOU that looks straight out of Borderlands.

>>54257049
>"How many inches?"

>>54257150
Reportedly Steve got his wage docked until he promised, in writing, to "never draw displays of affection between licensed character unless explicitly instructed to".

>>54256975
Honestly I don't think it's entirely the guide. They've been hiring a lot of artists who aren't producing good art.

I mean just look at Fiend Binder here, it feels more like a half-finished lighting study than a finished piece of art.

>>54257182
while i'm not going to specifically defend that piece of art i will say that wotc obviously wanted haladesh to be a vibrant and festive place. you can dislike the artists work but a lot of the basic choices aren't actually up to the artist. wotc dictates the subject, mood, and style. they color correct all pieces before printing as well.

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>>54257203
Whoops, forgot the art crime.

>>54257201
I thought he got fired, but at least he's got some cards back in Amonkhet.
God damn though, that's a dick move for something that's barely suggestive.

>>54257237
That is legitimately some of the worst art I've seen

>>54257049
>haveyouheardaboutjace'stinypeen.jpg

>>54257182
I hope when they do the Dominaria set they bring back some of the old guys, or at least a little more freedom for making weird, abstract and stylized shit.

>>54256952
Wait, Garfield's aunt was a serious painter?! I thought she just made Stasis because she was related to the guy, not because she was actually a good artist.

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I really like Jason Chan's work, but when I think of the quintessential Magic art, I always think of Zoltan.

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>>54257025

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>>54257316
>but when I think of the quintessential Magic art, I always think of Zoltan.
True

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>>54257049
I just don't understand how Wizards okays their main, public facing characters to look this awful. What the hell is Nissa supposed to be doing here? Is she constipated?

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Terese Nielsen is my fave amongst current day magic artists. I wish I had foils of stuff like this.

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>>54257365
It's the same problem with Samut. Her design isn't salvageable, but they've managed to consistently give her terrible expressions and terrible posture/posing that makes her cards look like ass.

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>>54257428
EMA foil Forces are endgame for my Legacy collection.

Who would want to see a couple of guest pieces by Mike Mignola? It's way off of their current style, but it'd be cool for a promo or something.

>>54257182
The card itself has no bordering, it's just the "blue tips" that makes it look that way, hence the name of the card.

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>>54257430
I mean just look at this card. Same character, same design, but it looks like an actual functional card. The angry face isn't over the top, nor is it innapropriate for the situation. Her posing suggests movement and action in a way that looks interesting and conveys the spell well.

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>90 replies
>0 mentions of igor kieryluk
I'm disapointed, /tg/

>>54257430
It's really hard for me to tell what the fuck emotion she's trying to express. It's like somewhere between rage and "my asshole is burning".

>>54257534
Jace's head looks fucking awful in this, everything else is gorgeous.

>>54257534
>tfw Vraska will never turn you to stone and ride ur dick

>>54257534
vraska is a cute

>>54257556
I actually really like Jace in that pic. He reminds me a lot of Superman in it.

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In terms of design in recent sets, I think the horrors and archfiends from Amonkhet are my favorite since New Phyrexia.

>>54257237
I've seen enough hentai, I have pretty good idea where this is going.

>>54257471
My LGS has two of those for 250$ each.

>>54257606
That art for Haze of Pollen is fucking atrocious, though.

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>>54257534
I prefer Briclot's version of Vraska personally, but god damn is it great.

>>54257606
They were definitely a great design. Apocalypse Demon might be terrible, but damn is it a cool looking card.

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>>54257606
Archfiend of Ifnir might be my favorite piece of MTG art, period.

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>>54257656
Pity is reads poorly at card size.

>>54257644
That's super cheap if they're nice condition (and you're talking USD).

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>>54257656

Seb McKinnon feels like he's been transplanted from 1997. No other Magic artist gets away with the stylization he does, and I can only imagine it's because his shit is so fucking dope that Jeremy Jarvis can't bring himself in good faith to tell him to reel it in.

>no mention of drew tucker or harold mcneill
though the last guy turned out to be an unironic nazi
like he had art on his website of hitler as jesus

>>54257237
there are multiple things going on here that don't really make sense to me. that head placement seems offfffff and i don't know why the coat would be that color. it just sort of blends into the background.

also her makeup looks like a 90s stripper. you can tell a dude painted this because no woman would ever put a character fighting monsters in glamour makeup.

i made a gif showing how i would fix it.

as a kid i always wanted to illustrate magic cards. i've long since assumed that was a silly idea but maybe i'll do some work and send it to wotc. i can certainly do better than this hunchback lady.

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Matt Cavotta has multiple styles and they all scream Magic.

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>>54257866

>>54256898
Good example.
This picture is... I don't know. Well-painted. There's colors and details and stuff. It's also terrible and doesn't convey anything. Chandra looks like she's pieced together from various technically anatomically correct parts to do a whatever pose where she has no idea what to do with her legs and is conjuring flames because... some reason. Background is full of stuff and absolutely none of it tells some sort of story.
It looks like plastic.

>>54256216
I love Lava Spike

>>54256618
I would respect Reynolds' style more if he could draw anything other than the "come at me" pose

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>>54258245

Hell yeah lava spike. Tedin is boss.

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>>54256952
Compare stasis with cards like
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>>54257430
>>54257049
In stasis you actualy sak yourself wtf are you seeing?, why is that on a card?, how does relate to stasis? leading to even reinterpretations of the stasis art trying to bring to a level of representation much more clear and typical. the fact is that in it's own ugly style, the art of stasis is much more significant for the player tham any of the cgi shit

>>54258538
Ask*

>>54256691
It's not so much the styleguide itself that causes it - they've used such things for ages - but just how damn much they micromanage the artists, including the art descriptions.
There is zero leeway in the art descriptions they give nowadays, they flatout tell the artists exactly what to make.

>>54258665
What does the style guide entail? Is it just "this is an avacynian priest and how they generally look, these are all the mirrodin races" or is it the thing responsible for literally every card being rendered in the same visual style?

>>54257656
>>54257823
I'm really glad we still have Seb.

>>54258698
It used to be more like the former, now combined with hiring shitty digital artists, it's the latter.

There's nothing wrong with digital art, but their roster has some real stinkers.

>>54258665

Eh, there's some interpretation, but it's all in composition and nothing in content. Something like >>54257504 for example probably had an art description like "Show Samut (see style guide page whatever) cutting down a group of Eternals (see style guide page whatever). She wields dual khopesh and is pissed about all her dead friends".

There are a bunch of ways to draw that, and I'm sure the artists submit 8-10 thumbnails, but it's not really up to interpretation what is happening, only how.

>>54258759
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/more-amonkhet-art-descriptions-2017-06-02
Why is their site search so fucking useless

>>54255894
>It's part of Wizard's attempt to get a movie deal
fixed.

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>>54249284

Wrong.

>>54257201
Artists aren't under contract, they're freelance. There wasn't a "wage" to hold or statements to sign. The AD simply hasn't comissioned any art where he's meant to or allowed to draw female characters anymore because that's what he likes drawing most and WotC cucks are passive agressive like that.

His last art depicting a woman was Monastery Swiftspear that was already finished when posted the PW yuri fanart to tumblr

>>54257648
See you might think that but you'd be incorrect.

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>>54257867
The Lorwyn/Shadowmoor blocks had some great art all around. They all got that fairytale feel pretty good

>>54258665
Yeah, when I said "style guide" I more just meant the way they make all the art look so samey these days.

>>54257866
A lot fo art has been edited after the artists delivered them.
This piece obviously had the character looking towards the creature by how little the face and hat fit the rest of the piece.
Life Goes On had a male character standing on top of Rhonas' body that was later morphed into Samut.
Liliana, Death's Majesty had her legs redrawn to avoid showing thigh. So was Macabre Waltz.
Succumb to Temptation originally had a female vampire standing in front of the victim, you can even tell the sillhouette of her arm turned into the male vampire's akwardly possitioned legs.
Sylvan Ranger was edited to have smaller breasts and a less endearing expression.

And that's the tip of the iceberg. Mohrbacher and Swanland quit Magic because of how little control you have over your art.

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>>54249284
Not the best, but SSStylish as fuck and preety distinctive and recognizable

>>54259968
holy crap the succumb to temptation one is messing with my eyes now, all i see is the vampire they rushed to edit out

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>>54249284
Based Quinon Hoover coming through.

>>54258538
>cgi
this makes me cringe a bit. it's not cgi, it's digital.

>>54259968
wow if that's the case they did a bad job. the head is the clear issue. (well the biggest issue)

>Life Goes On
>Liliana, Death's Majesty
>Macabre Waltz
>Succumb to Temptation
>Sylvan Ranger
none of these bother me at all. succumb to temptation looks a bit rigid but overall the visual is fine. i'm sure everybody whines about the lack of cheesecake but it's really not very mature to take that stuff seriously. wotc simply wants to appeal to a broad range of people and if that makes you angry you're some kind of elitist nerd who probably posts on tabletop gaming message boards.

>>54259803
>The AD simply hasn't comissioned any art where he's meant to or allowed to draw female characters anymore because that's what he likes drawing most and WotC cucks are passive agressive like that.
it's pretty unprofessional for an artist to share suggestive art involving the characters from a company they work with.

you can't work at disney and openly post goof troop hentai on the internet. your relationship with the company creates a grey area where it's unclear if the work and art is sanctioned.

>>54260140
In Macrabe Waltz Liliana's leg was broken completely just to avoid showing a pitiful triangle of leg skin.
It has nothing to do with "cheesecake", they ruined a character's anatomy for prudeness. If they want to be stupid like that just give her pants instead of making aritsts bend over backwards to avoid those evil sinful/sexist peoples to feast in less than two milimiters of skin-colored pixels.

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>>54260316
the leg isn't the focal point of the illustration though and the rest of the art is very charming. it's not worth complaining about when there are cards out there like vizier of deferment which looks like a middle school art project.

also the other macabre waltz art is a complete slam dunk.

>>54260079
Yeah that one is super obvious to the point you could probably redraw the female vampire just by following the shadow in front of the human guy.

>>54260140
>this makes me cringe a bit. it's not cgi, it's digital.

I mean, it's computer-generated imagery, right?

>>54260375
>the leg isn't the focal point of the illustration
Not an argument. Breaking anatomy because of prudeness is stupid. Either write the design doccuments with that shit in mind so that artists won't have to edit finished/semi-finished pieces because corporate can't stand looking at human skin, or get over it.
Breaking Liliana's leg could have been avoided by either modyfying her character design to have leggings under her skirt, or by framing the picture in a way that doesn't show her legs at all. Showing her naked legs is not a necessity, but to break the basic rules of illustration to avoid them is unacceptable.

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Surprised not to see carl critchlow yet. Very unique style, easy to tell which cards are his, and was very, very good at composing pieces with a single focus - darksteel colossus comes to mind, but I also really loved pic related

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>>54260413
computer generated imagery is literally generated by a computer. meaning you put in parameters and the computer makes the stuff based on what you plug in.

sort of like if you had an assistant who painted whatever you wanted and you stood there and told him what to paint. you're in control of the operation but you're not doing the actual hands on task.

there are lots of cgi pokemon card illustrations. i think the card energy tap from legends might also be partially cgi? not sure.

>>54260140
>i'm sure everybody whines about the lack of cheesecake but it's really not very mature to take that stuff seriously

Sure, go ahead, drop one of the worst insults you can to an adult by calling him immature, but not support your point by anything except "it is".
Not to mention, that wasnt even the point of what that anon was complaining about to begin with.

>>54260454
What are you bitching about? The cause dress underneath?

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Critchlow 2/3

>>54260454
>but to break the basic rules of illustration to avoid them is unacceptable.
what does this even mean? there are no rules. you just draw weird stuff. and yes wotc can tell you to change your piece to fit their brand identity.

wotc is a for-profit company. you can't act like they have some kind of moral obligation to respect the free expression of their paid artists.

i will agree that it's not optimal and that they should have caught the issue before the artist turned in the finished product.

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Critchlow 3/3.

Arcbound ravager, eastern and western paladins, blockade runner, and more are all really great.

>>54260454
Different person than everyone who's arguing with you, do you have the original unmodified liliana art?

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>>54260503

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>>54260513
I've always liked Gallowbraid and Morifen's designs, and I've tooled around with making a partner commander deck with the two of them, even though they're complete garbage.

>>54260513
it's too bad this card is such trash. the art is great.

>>54260484
>not support your point by anything except "it is"
the next sentence in my post supported my point. you just didn't quote it.

wotc has a specific brand identity they want to uphold. they want to appeal to as wide a range of players as possible. that includes kids, the prudish parents of kids, and prudish adults. if you think your desire to see elf boobs is more important than wotcs corporate strategy then you're both naive and a bit self important.

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>>54260583

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>>54260614

>>54260583
Oh an inconsequential lower body that has nothing to do with the card, which is the primary medium?

3/10 fucks given. I mean, it looks odd, but it's nothing to get mad about, and this is coming from a pretentious art snob. That's hardly censorship or denial of artistic vision or whatever your preaching, it's just a janky angle not to show vagina on a poorly composed lower body no one was meant to see anyways. Why do you care so much?

>>54260583

Not a part of that conversation, but does this leg look weird to anyone else? It's like it doesnt fit as either her left or her right leg

>>54260658
it's the right leg. it's anatomically plausible as well. i'd bet money that painting is done with solid reference photos. the photos the artist chose might not be the best though. real people sometimes look awkward too.

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>>54260631
>>54260503
>>54260575
Every art depicting Liliana in her winter dress including the one in the design doccuments for Innistrad have her boots end at mit tigh and be held by garters. But suddenly Macabre Waltz shoves her leg up to her ribcage through voidspace to avoid showing any skin.
This doesn't seem to have been a problem with the fanbase since this look of Liliana is the most often cosplayed WotC character and cosplayers don't seem to have any problem with showing their legs, I don't believe this comes from AD either because Cynthia Shepperd made a career on painting beautiful women showing skin. So I can only blame corporate being mortaly afraid of sex-negative SJWs because 90% of ther marketing and PR happens in Tumblr and Twitter where those retards are legion.
>>54260522
>there are no rules
Composition, color theory, anatomy and symbology are the rules of illustration you retarded deconstructivist numale piece of shit. Literally kys.

>>54258107
>and is conjuring flames because... some reason.

Because Chandra is the FIRE ONE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND, MTG PLAYER? SHE MAKES FIRE. THE RED THING

>>54260644
This is bait.

>>54260704

It doesn't make sense as the right. She's desending stairs - in fact it almost has to be the left. The strap pulling the boot up would have to be angled much harder...additionally, if it were the right leg, it would have to be really turned inward toward the left leg to work (the right leg bared is very far from the hip it originates from), but obviously that's not happening and wouldn't be possible walking down stairs anyway without lots of hinging at the left hip.

Can you explain to me anatomically what is happening here

>>54260759
Again, that's a silly complaint. I didn't even know what I was looking at until you pointed it out. If the dress was closed, it would be equally fine. The real issue is that you seem to desperately want to masturbate to magic cards. I mean, I'm all for sexy naked ladies, but it seems like a pretty petty complaint when Theros was a block.

>>54260815
>t. Ever booty blasted pleb
Pretty minor complaint senpai. If you want to see horrible card art, look at half the things from kaladesh depicting dwarves that aren't sram.

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Not necessarily my favorite, but I love the way these 4 cards looks with the old artifact frame.

These are the only 4 cards he ever did.

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>>54259704
Regardless of the nazi shit, his style is so fucking cool. I wish he did more.

>>54260759
I CANT STOP LOOKING AT THE FUCKING TINY MIDGET LEG NOW GOD DAMNIT

>>54260871
sorry. it's HER left. our right.

also i think the reference photo was taken on flat ground which is why it looks especially awkward. the back leg (her right, our left) should be bent or something.

>>54260759
>Composition, color theory, anatomy and symbology are the rules of illustration you retarded deconstructivist numale piece of shit. Literally kys.
you're so salty i just ordered a margarita. why would i kill myself when you're clearly the one who is upset?

>symbology
where are you even getting this stuff? did you watch a vsauce video about art?

>>54260872
>If the dress was closed, it would be equally fine
This is right.
>>54260872
>The real issue is that you seem to desperately want to masturbate to magic cards.
This is you being retarded.

The complaint with art "corrections" is that there's no communication between corporate, AD and artists which ends up in this shit with broken legs, hunchback people and male legs with female torsos. The art quality is inherently and objectively demoted by these practices and even if in the Macabre Waltz art the boot straps were meant to go all the way up to the pelvis, it'd still be anatomically wrong because in the desperation to remove any thigh skin, they left her without a pelvis, the leg goes right into her hip.

If they want to cover and de-sexualize the characters I don't care. But if they will do it by making artists ruin their art's anatomy and composition to cover up details, I do. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too. If WotC doesn't want Liliana to show her legs ever anymore, fix that shit through design not by making artists work twice because they followed the design doccument but didn't read corporate's mind while doing so.

>>54260872
>he never saw that fucking leg in the ribcage
>and then defending it by calling the other person petty for noticing
That's nigger level of lack of self-awareness.

>>54254009
Seb is the best. Hands down.

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>>54254009
It's a real shame that most of the cards he does amazing art for are trash.

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You know, it's one thing that a lot of the modern card are is digital trash, but what really rubs it in is just how obvious it is that a lot of the art isn't even done as one piece but instead badly composited from different sources.

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>>54259704

I really wanna buy one, both for the keks and because it's legit good in mono-blue commander decks.

But
>Legends pricing

>>54249303
Phil Folgio. Damn his art was great. I still cherish the cards I have of his.

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It's Rebecca Guay, you plebs.

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>no mention of Adam Rex
come on guys