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Aleksi · Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:13 pm

An illustration done for the last MAGIC cards extension set called Kamigawa.
Done more than 6 months ago. Some others cards will be published in the next months :

Copyrights Wizard of the Coast

And the cover of the next COPS RPG book extension :

Illya · Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:35 pm

omg !! my eyes...very impressive.. Shocked

, you rules !

Greensun · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:26 am

omg, you draw them magic cards? u r my hero!

(very nice art by the way)
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Freebooter · member Member # Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 417

That Cop is awesome! Really dynamic pose and cool design...

ozan · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:44 pm

cool beans. that magic card is vicious. post more when you can.
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Aleksi · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:05 am

Here's a step by step for my second picture :
Maybe it could interest some of you.

I've forgotten some little notes on my picture. You can find references in magazines, books dedicated to the subject of your illustrations (here it is Swat, guns, military clothes, Spec Ops...) and one of the most easy and useful tool is certainly Google.com "Images". Documentation and references is something really important !!!
You can also look at the works of others artists, not to copy them but to think about the way they manage the same subject, to find some points you can use in your works, some you can't (For example here a third green light in the middle of the head would have been too much influenced...)

I've forgotten to say here that I'm using again a printed copy of my first sketch to draw the second one.

At the colors step, I knew that I would use an orange color for the background. I've tried to keep a really graphic feeling by using a really limited and simple palette. Orange, black and white. For this piece it's more about graphic design influences than painter's influences. Just a choice...

The Real Mark · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:47 am

Hey man

Thanks for the tute, it's really good.

Always interested in your work. keep it up

Joe84 · member Member # Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 262

wow i love the 1st one

yorric:: · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:47 pm

I <3 Cops...the show, and your picture. AND you're super awesome for posting the how-to. Thanks.

Max · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:51 am

Thank you so much for actually posting a step by step explanation of your working progress. That's really awesome!!

Mikko K · member Member # Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 639

Simply amazing works!

I really like about the first one, that it's detailed and "clean" without losing its ambiguity. Many similar pieces lose that in the finishing process.

The cop is definitely a favorite. Really good drawing. Don't ever paint over those lines, its so much cooler than a lot of painterly, fuzzy stuff.

Keep up the good work!

watmough · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:16 pm

this is amazingly cool.

Heysoos · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:40 pm

damn, those are awesome. I really dig the tutorial, too.
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desmozgenes · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:31 pm

visited your site aeons ago and it's really cool
good to see you post here. mtg card is great Wink

even I don't play mtg no more.. hehe
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Greensun · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:38 am

I bought a Champions booster today, guess which card was in it! Twisted Evil

you have an MSN adress or so, aleksi? I would love to have a chat with you Smile

(PM me if you have)
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