MTG Salvation

Thanks for the thoughts.

The concept for these basic lands was to create a composition based on the five mana symbols. I have worked in a monochromatic palette, and I'll certainly upload some of that work, but I feel like for this piece it would lose a lot in the final image if I were to reduce my palette to only one hue. I am certainly trying to keep my hues to a limited number of choices, and the piece uses oranges, pinks and blues. I based my color palette roughly on this piece by Veronique Meignaud.

The blues in the darker parts of the land are actually the same hue as the larger part of the water, just darker and less saturated. The lighter "brown" areas of land are the oranges of the sky, and the "whites" are even the same hue as the orange of the sky, just much brighter. The purple of the land mass in the back was temporary, to give me a feel of how the eye would travel along the piece. It was done early in the process, and I just haven't gotten to painting over it yet.

Again, thank you for the criticism. I'll certainly keep in mind the importance of making sure my palette remains limited, and I'll try to adjust things where they are now to a more limited palette while trying to retain the power of the original concept as much as possible.

Here's a piece I've been working on for a cycle of basic lands I'm doing:
and here's some of the progression:

This is already an awesome turnout. I respect each of you highly as artists, and our individual styles couldn't be more different. Feel free to post whatever you're working on, or even finished pieces that you'd like critiqued. I plan on putting up some of mine as soon as I can. Work is a little in the way of artistic progress right now.

So I've been noticing a higher than usual quantity and caliber for the artists on this forum lately, and I miss the contests for frequent challenges, so I figured why not start a sort of collective amongst one another, where we can provide challenges to each other, post work progression, and critique one another's work to build each other up as a community of artists who happen to love Magic? I'll reserve this first post to put up challenges if you all want to do any, but for now, I'd just like to get us all together and start helping one another improve. Let me know if you're interested.

For the first piece, his right hand looks really awkward. I'd suggest repositioning it to look more natural to the curve of the arm. Aside from that, these are all professional quality pieces. Well done.

I actually miss the challenges set out by the artwork contests. My current work schedule wouldn't give me the time to do a contest every month, but have you considered rotating the contests seasonally? Have a spring contest from March until May, summer contest from June until August, etc.

My Sharuum EDH deck wants this so bad.

I take it back. This Jace in a UW control build with the new Ajani and that convoking reanimate spell seems like it could be fun.

Card sucks. On the plus side, this is the second best art for Jace, just after Aleksi's book promo alternate of Beleren.

Hell's Caretaker and Thornbite Staff make a fun combo.

Gotcha. Thanks for the responses.

"7/1/2013 Shadowborn Apostle’s first ability lets you ignore only the “four-of” rule. It doesn’t let you ignore format legality."

It does say only. And Commander is a format. Hence my confusion.

I'm truly confused at this point. The card rulings on Shadowborn Apostle say that the line saying "You may have any number of Shadowborn Apostles in your deck" only counts for the standard "four-of" rule, yet I see decklists for EDH running him. Is it legal to play multiples of him in EDH?

Unnecessary changes are unnecessary. The site doesn't work on mobile devices properly now.

Depends on what the idea is. If it's for Magic, there's no good way apart from waiting for the next GDS. If it's for a new game, you need an agent. If it's for a new multilayer format, make a beta version, test it out, and send them an email.