Brainsss

Hey guys I just wanted to promote my friends at the Lonely Few game studios.
Their game BRAINSSS just came out. It's an awesome zombie game, hope you guys can check it out!

Descent Into Madness

Another card I did for the Avacyn Restored

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a despair counter on Descent into Madness, then each player exiles X permanents he or she controls and/or cards from his or her hand, where X is the number of despair counters on Descent into Madness.

Sounds like a pretty sick card

"Blessings of Nature" MTG Avacyn Restored

"Stolen Goods" MTG Avacyn Restored

Info on card can be found here

"Thunderbolt" MTG Avacyn Restored

Some quick B/W studies and I tried some z-brush into my process for the final image .
The good thing about doing the z-brush model is that I did not have to struggle so much with the overlaps and the perspective of the head's angle, but since I did not finish sculpting the legs I struggled with that (lol). All in all this was a really quick turnaround (for me anyway). 1.5 hours sculpting and 3 hours trying to decide on what shape that lightning should be .. aargh lol

MTG card info can be found here

Clinging Mists

Another Card for Dark Ascension

Enduring Vengeance

Constantine Sekeris MATAMORFX

Hey guys I just wanted to let you know of a book that is coming out this year from a really good friend of mine.  I have seen the early versions of it and it is sick! It should be out by June-July hope you guys check it out :)

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Swamp Thing

I wanted to start this year with a creature post and get this creature blog back on track! Here is a quick photobash .. well not so quick, I wanted to keep it under an hour but I ended up changing the design a bunch of times, I am still not happy with it. I will post the final next week.

Inspired by the man thing / swamp thing , I first saw him when I was 4 I think. He was one of the first comic book characters I remember that I liked.... Incredible hulk and the X-men were also introduced to me at that time.

 Here is the final. I decided to clear the background to minimize the clutter and keep the focus on the creature.

Santa versus Frosty

Turf war between Frosty and Santa. A bit morbid, I know .. but I am sure Santa had to take someone out to rule the North Pole.. and Frosty wasn't going down without a fight !

Merry Christmas!

WURM

from a black and white sketch to color comp, render and the finished card
Hope you guys liked how it turned out.
and for you guys that are asking me about posters, I am currently working on getting things set-up.

thanks and have a happy thanksgiving!

G.P. San Diego sketches

The event went well, there were I think 1,200 in attendance, I heard one guy say but that was small compared to the other times, but that was still a lot of people for me. Thanks Tim for inviting me to the event :) . People really liked the think twice card and it seemed like it was getting a lot of playing time. I finally got to hang out with Doug and Jason, their tables were right beside mine, its been a couple of years since I have seen those guys. I did not get to meet all the other artists coz we were soo busy signing cards. I did get to meet  Mark Tedin, Steve Argyle, and got to talk a little bit with Alex  Horley and RK Post, they were cool guys.
I will update with pictures and some sketches I did for peoples play mats tonight

 Some card alterations with a familiar theme :)

more sketches and alterations...

I was able to take some photos of the other artist sketches, will post that soon... I gotta finish some work right now :P

MTG GRAND-PRIX SAN DIEGO

Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be at the San Diego Grand Prix on Nov 12-13 .
This is my second Grand Prix that I will be attending. The first one was in Oakland and I was the only artist that was able to make it. It was my fist ever signing event. I was not prepared for it. There were soo many people. Anyway I can't wait to hang out with my good friend Doug Alexander Gregory (amazing artist!) and meet all the fans. I used to be addicted to this game back when I was younger and to see that energy in these events is great. 

Here is the link to the event site
I will be selling my artist proofs and maybe some posters. I still have some Maelstrom Pulse and Tez the seeker artist proofs available. (very limited quantity)

Tikbalang in Spectrum 18 and a Chesley Award Finalist

Hey I just wanted to let you guys know that my Tikbalang image made it into Spectrum 18.  I would like to thank the judges and, Cathy and Arnie Fenner  for including my pieces in the book. I had always looked at this book for inspiration when I was younger and to finally be in it is an honor.

This image was also a finalist for the Chesley Award. (The Chesleys are given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists each year) but unfortunately my image did not win, but I am happy that it even got nominated! Thanks to everyone that voted. link

 I also wanted to let you know that prints are available and can be purchased at Gallery Nucleus. Just click on the image to go to the page.

Think Twice (Innistrad set)

The title of this card is "Think Twice"

Draw a card.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

I also added a couple of studies before I did the final painting. I wish I kept the same hand gestures in my monochromatic study.

Chasm Drake

This was done for the 2012 Core Set for Magic: the Gathering

The King Snake

Here was my image for the red engine gallery show yesterday. I titled it the "tree snake" but "the king snake" sounds better.  Something different.. it still has a monster in there though :)

the UBER monster

 This is UBER my boxer-pitbull mix. I love this dog. He has passed due to cancer, he was 9 years old. These photos were taken a year before he left us. The vet told us that he would not live for more than 1 month and we should put him down now, but we couldn't just put him down that day, he is not just a dog to us he is family member, and man I can't believe that I cried so much that day for a dog. I am glad that my wife did not just believe that we should just call it quits for him. So she researched on  holistic approach instead of the toxic chemotherapy, and he lived for 8 more months. I wish we knew about the benefits of feeding raw organic meat/chicken instead of dog food years ago. What's interesting is, ever since we started feeding the dogs this way they had no fleas and their coats are better, isn't that weird? We spend a bit more on food but we don't spend it on flea chemicals which was $100 for each dog and we have 4.
So now I spend a lot more time with my family , I don't want to just blink my eyes and all of a sudden my kids are in college or my parents are dead. I try to make sure I have my priorities in the right order. This is what UBER taught me.

Red Sonja

very loosely based on an Aztec goddess from Mexican Mythology "Teteoinan".

WOOT! WOOT! RED ENGINE 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

My good friends that started Red Engine survived their first year and they are picking up steam!

I will be participating in this event with an image for the gallery and I will also show up to eat all the food:)

thanks for inviting me guys