MTG Salvation

Doing up a few simple alters for friends as gifts for Christmas. Here's my first one.

It looks like Brian "Ace" Byrd has created a new facebook page and business. I'm not sure how much of the info he has ever given in regards to why he disappeared with a large amount of commissioned cards is true, but in the interest of spreading info about him here are some links to other forum discussions about the situation and a link to his new Fb page

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=429078

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=572241

https://www.facebook.com/brian.byrd.904

I altered my General today, I can't foil it so I just altered, 2nd alter done by me.

A guy in this facebook group (who's from my city and his name is Gonzalo L.) is selling proxies there, using images of many of us. I've reported his post and explained him such activity is illegal. In case any of you is being affected by this (there are even handpainted alters of mine!) feel free to report his post as well.

I've reported to facebook, not to WotC.

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I cannot see any posts by a Gonzalo L. Any idea what kind of images are being used?

It has been deleted by the admins. There were thousands of renders and also many hand-painted alters. I've also found another guy in a latin FB group selling cube boxes full of counterfeits, among wich there were many digital renders took from MTGS (fortunately, we knew this guy in person and he was a gentle guy who was being a victim of his own missinformation). It seems that counterfeit sellers are now starting to use FaceBook to promote their activity, so I would suggest to keep an open eye on such site.

It's unfortunate that these fraudulent alterations have surfaced on facebook. I wish there was an easy way to prevent such activity, but there really isn't. Educating the community on the ethical issues involved in printed alterations, in regards to art credits, is probably the best way to go.

Anywho, here's some new stuff from me:

Progenitus I choose you!...
It's super effective.

It's been a very long time since I did one of these. Glad to finally be back on the horse.
For my Glissa EDH deck, a little droplet of immortality.

First Post Eva...Hi!

I drew these recently. I play Commander heavily so I make full art alters for my decks. Anyways, my technique is erasing the ink from the card, and then drawing on the blank areas, while using scotch tape to cover areas I don't want altered. I typically use markers and pen. I use a white plastic Staedtler eraser, and burn through one every three alters. It takes about 15-30 minutes to erase a card depending on the complexity of the erasing. I sign them on the back - Emmanuel Hall.

*I have more alters but I'm kinda having a serious scanner issue.

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Heres some cards, the guilded lotus is by me! the other two are by enna

Spoiler tags added. -Galspanic

Isnt the beguiler of wills unplayable off that alter though? because the name and mana cost have to be uncovered, its not like its that playable of a card to begin with but as far as i know those 2 parts have to be uncovered right?

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First Post Eva...Hi!

I drew these recently. I play Commander heavily so I make full art alters for my decks. Anyways, my technique is erasing the ink from the card, and then drawing on the blank areas, while using scotch tape to cover areas I don't want altered. I typically use markers and pen. I use a white plastic Staedtler eraser, and burn through one every three alters. It takes about 15-30 minutes to erase a card depending on the complexity of the erasing. I sign them on the back - Emmanuel Hall.

*I have more alters but I'm kinda having a serious scanner issue.

Wow, i really like the detail in this work! I can definitely tell you have a style all your own, keep up the great work!

@Alteredartwork: That gift is pretty nice, I had to look at a normal card to see where the card colors ended and where your alter began. To add an image as an attachment, you have to replay (not quick reply), then below the box where you type your post there is an "additional options" section. In there, you can find a "manage attachments" button.

Also, you should be careful of double posting (posting in a thread where you have the last post), I think a mod may yell at you for that. Instead, you can use the "edit post" button to just add stuff on to your previous post.

Also welcome to the forums.

commissioned Liliana:D

Reference
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/43372/1259272-comics_black_widow_3.jpg

Merry Christmas to the community! Here's a Xmas themed card I have ever drawn a couple of years ago!


And two of my latest commissions, first a Maelstorm Wanderer modeled after the Deus boss from Xenogears with nouveau style borders. Creature inside the sphere is Sylvan Primordial.

This one is a remake of Death Note themed Ponder with L.

Master Yoda / Gaddock Teeg


Based on a work by Adam Hughes.

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Master Yoda / Gaddock Teeg

Based on a work by Adam Hughes.

I love Galspanic's art quite a bit, but I still say you should have won best artist this year. Your staging, shading, and line work is just stunning.

A couple Deathrite Shamans for a commission.

As we're comin up on the new year, I thought I'd share with everyone here my pride and joy, made possible by many of the people in this community. I can't express how much I appreciate everyone I've contacted and how helpful they've been. It's been a crazy few years, but I'm finally happy with the percentage of alters in my cube. Hope you all enjoy and thank you all again!

Wow, those Pox14 alters are breathtaking! I especially love the Chandra and Lili, but those lands are phenomenal too. I can't imagine the money spent on this cube, not only to get money cards like duals, but to also have them altered so professionally. Putting this together is something to be proud of, and something that should be padlocked to your wrist whenever it is not being used- personally I think I would be too anxious to let any but my most trusted friends and family even touch the cube.

Looking at your original artist alters I can't help but notice not all of them are brag worthy. You should try and get a Steve Argyle or two. I follow his tumblr and he does very high quality alters that are quite imaginative.

That seesic Sylvan Library is still one of my favorite altered pieces of all time. Simply amazing collection, Altaurus321.

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As we're comin up on the new year, I thought I'd share with everyone here my pride and joy, made possible by many of the people in this community. I can't express how much I appreciate everyone I've contacted and how helpful they've been. It's been a crazy few years, but I'm finally happy with the percentage of alters in my cube. Hope you all enjoy and thank you all again!

I normally don't care for it when people try to showcase so many cards/an entire deck of alters at once like this but: there is some great quality work here, especially the Bigup and Seesic cards, and the image sizes and quality are really good.

Nice stuff, thanks for sharing.

Alpaca's Call

I thought I would make a post about this here as you are all artists in your own right. Steve Argyle, on his tumblr blog (LINK), posted about a ebay and brick and mortar store that us using his and other art without permission. I have reported the ebay store to ebay before for printing counterfeit cards under WotC legal definition, but that they advertise as altered art cards (example). They are printing on partially blanked magic cards, and only WotC has the right to print magic cards.

At the very least look and try to identify artists (which they do not credit) and contact them so they can take action. I personally will continue to report them to ebay, since argyle has stated that their claim of owning all rights to the art is false and they have acknowledged that they don't care. I will continue to make sure that WotC is aware of this issue and that at least one of it's customers is upset by it.