My first and second cards ever, all from today...experimenting with sharpie on the Darksteel Grayskull and Acrylics with the Ravnica -->Dark EoDS art shift. Please excuse the poor cell phone pic quality.
My first and second cards ever, all from today...experimenting with sharpie on the Darksteel Grayskull and Acrylics with the Ravnica -->Dark EoDS art shift. Please excuse the poor cell phone pic quality.
Not a bad day. I'm sure i'll get better fast.
Apart from the shaky picture quality, I'm digging that Darksteel Grayskull!
If you can get a hold of some acrylics, it'd be cool if it had the swirling energy traces common to all the Darksteel items.
Great alters, lately. The Sharuum EDH is fan freaking tastic. Total geek-gasm here. And to think, my friends are impressed that I have 5 or so alters in my Korlash deck .
Hi all! I just "finished" these eternal witnesses this morning (woot 5 hours of work!... im slow) Anyhow I would really appriciate feedback and notes on what I can improve in the future or what I can still fix before I put them up for sale.
I did my first alter the other day! I'm unable to post it yet, as it was for the MTGsally holiday exchange.
Let me just say that I have a deeper level of respect for the card altering community. I already respected the hell out of you ladies and gents, but after trying to do it myself, I see how wonderfully difficult it truly is.
I didn't have time to go to the art store for quality paint, so I tried to use some generic acrylics, and the pigment count was just way too low. So, I went to plan B, and erased the card face and used a mix of ink and some acrylics for the softer colors.
I'll share once I can post it, but it's really a bad/rushed job in my opinion, and the scan quality is rather low.
I've had this card for a while, i commisioned this from Yawg a while back. I feel i should post it here, as it still puts a smile on my face when i draw it in EDH. Infact i tutor it up way more than i should *grin*, gotta love them fetches.
Now i just gotta find someone to alter like 60 other cards so i can have an altered EDH deck like the other Sharuum deck around here. But i also have to take up a loan so i can afford it ;D.
wow, ive been away for so long! great job everyone, just looking through the pages i missed, opening up all the attachments in new tabs, trying not to peek so i can feast my eyes on the fullscreen medium-high resoluion images
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Thanks a lot guys! this thread really has been a great inspiration for ALL of us. would be taking a weekoff, probably be back 2nd week january, I need to finish an oil painting for an exhibit come january 8, I will be posting it in my photobucket soon..
..Special thanks to these artists: yaug07, bigup (sick diamond!very detailed!), pyrofiliac, grant1, necrosed, benhurt, poesjuh, sheperd faeries.
@morphling (nice mockups you've sent me, hope it materializes..thanks too!).
@sdematt: still waiting for the delivery of my friends saph and emerald..we still are planning how we could make it all consistent with those eyes...thanks!
@morrissey: thanks steve! really love that GRAYSKULL! really reminds me of one of my favorite subjects to draw when i was in gradeschool, HE-MAN. great alter man!
have a great Christmas and a fruitful New Year to everyone!
Whats the best set of colors to get for paints?
been doing a few alterations myself,
and most of them turn out alright
but the thing i find most difficult is getting the colors to match.
The paints i got so far are black, white, red, dark blue and yellow.
Prob need to get more paints pretty soon
but any colors that are essential that I am missing?
and also what the difference between pigment paint and normal paint?
cos when I was shopping I saw some bottles with a pigment label on it.
@SouJaM - Depending on the paints you bought you probably aren't "missing" anything that you "need", except maybe a 'true' blue. As others have posted on here before - check the packing on your paints for pigment. Some paints will come with white or black already mixed in and make it almost impossible to match colors. Your dark blue may contain black or white in it, so when you mix it with yellow to get a green color you end up with a flat or grey color you weren't expecting.
I'd pick up a light and dark brown, and a green color. You don't technically 'need' them, but they've made my life easier. I hate mixing up brown from RBY.
Also, practice is key. I've definitely become better from keeping at it - quicker, better technique with the brush, better at shading. I'm not at the level of CK, Proxy, BigUP, Yawg or many others on here, but I'm getting better by keeping at it and taking on harder and harder cards.
Not a bad day. I'm sure i'll get better fast.
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Apart from the shaky picture quality, I'm digging that Darksteel Grayskull!
If you can get a hold of some acrylics, it'd be cool if it had the swirling energy traces common to all the Darksteel items.
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That is much much much better. World of difference. Better colour matching this time.
Let me just say that I have a deeper level of respect for the card altering community. I already respected the hell out of you ladies and gents, but after trying to do it myself, I see how wonderfully difficult it truly is.
I didn't have time to go to the art store for quality paint, so I tried to use some generic acrylics, and the pigment count was just way too low. So, I went to plan B, and erased the card face and used a mix of ink and some acrylics for the softer colors.
I'll share once I can post it, but it's really a bad/rushed job in my opinion, and the scan quality is rather low.
here are some quick alters: concentrate, sakura tribe-elder and mana vault. I can't claim any originality for the TMNT elder or the vault.
the cake is a lie.
Now i just gotta find someone to alter like 60 other cards so i can have an altered EDH deck like the other Sharuum deck around here. But i also have to take up a loan so i can afford it ;D.
@the"eye"moxen - JAW DROP.
RU Owling Mine (Runeflare Trap) RU
Recent FNM's
3-1 2nd
2-0 drop (Yeah, that is 2 wins and a drop...)
3-1 3rd
..Special thanks to these artists: yaug07, bigup (sick diamond!very detailed!), pyrofiliac, grant1, necrosed, benhurt, poesjuh, sheperd faeries.
@morphling (nice mockups you've sent me, hope it materializes..thanks too!).
@sdematt: still waiting for the delivery of my friends saph and emerald..we still are planning how we could make it all consistent with those eyes...thanks!
@morrissey: thanks steve! really love that GRAYSKULL! really reminds me of one of my favorite subjects to draw when i was in gradeschool, HE-MAN. great alter man!
have a great Christmas and a fruitful New Year to everyone!
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been doing a few alterations myself,
and most of them turn out alright
but the thing i find most difficult is getting the colors to match.
The paints i got so far are black, white, red, dark blue and yellow.
Prob need to get more paints pretty soon
but any colors that are essential that I am missing?
and also what the difference between pigment paint and normal paint?
cos when I was shopping I saw some bottles with a pigment label on it.
Pm me for commissions!
I'd pick up a light and dark brown, and a green color. You don't technically 'need' them, but they've made my life easier. I hate mixing up brown from RBY.
Also, practice is key. I've definitely become better from keeping at it - quicker, better technique with the brush, better at shading. I'm not at the level of CK, Proxy, BigUP, Yawg or many others on here, but I'm getting better by keeping at it and taking on harder and harder cards.
ill prob get the browns (which are really a pain to mix)
green, blue and orange perhaps soon.
Hope that solves my mixing problems!
Pm me for commissions!