Summer Sacrifice
Still looking to get comfortable with gouache, I did another quick piece in between commercial...
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Author: Steven Belledin
Morphic Pool
In order to explain aspects of this piece, I’m going to break from the norm and provide a...
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Flaming Birds, But Gouache
For the most part I use oil paint for my finished work. But lately I’ve had a desire to shake...
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First Idea, Worst Idea?
Over the course of my education I repeatedly ran into two disparate points of view regarding the...
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Brightmare
After twenty years of working in the fantasy genre, the inevitable finally happened: last year, I...
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Filling the Cracks
I have a lot of unfinished work laying around my studio. Okay. Maybe “a lot” is...
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Yorion, Sky Nomad
Here is a list of all the information typically found in a Magic: the Gathering art description:...
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More Fun With Cards
There are a lot of things I could say about the times we find ourselves in, but I figure...
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Variations On a Sliver
Last year, Magic: the Gathering put out a series of art cards that were exactly what you might...
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Elspeth, Undaunted Hero
My assignment here was to paint Elspeth, who is one of the iconic planeswalker characters from...
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The Akroan War
A funny thing about the business of illustration is that successful work can often lead to future...
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The Rest of the Iceberg
Years ago, I got a copy of this book, The Illustrator In America 1860-2000, by Walt Reed. If...
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Horses and Dragons
While soliciting the Internet Hivemind for subjects to pontificate on, the following query arose:...
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Exercise Those Chops
This entire post can be summed up thusly: don’t forget to exercise. Seriously. But by...
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A Painting of Food
I’m fond of pointing out that freelance illustration has provided me with many assignments...
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