Updated Original Magic Art Price List

I've had a flurry of sales over the past 4 months as well as some new Magic art being released and returned to me. Thusly, an updated list of prices and availability was in need.

Below is a comprehensive list of all of my Magic: the Gathering artwork. Contact me via private message if you have interest in any of these. You can contact me through Facebook or using: steve2@rottface.com.

The MtG Price List has been removed in order to be fully updated. Sorry for the inconvenience, yo!

Khans of Tarkir!

Abzan Guide

Card art images for the next Magic: the Gathering setting called 'Khans of Tarkir' have been spoiled.  And so I shall spoil them at a bigger size - for your viewing pleasure, of course!

Trumpet Blast

Take a gander at my first five for this block - based loosely on the Mongol tribe dynasties and that general era of history on the Asian continent. Pretty damn fun stuff, I must say. The developers and concept artists made a great world to play around in. Of these five, Trumpet Blast might be my fave - though I like the bright colors of Abzan Guide, too.

Timely Hordemate

Arrow Storm

For all the stuff I'm pretty good at drawing, horses have never been a strong point. This set kinda threw me into the meat-grinder though. Which is good though - I needed the practice.  Most of the images feature a figure on horseback. Or if not on horseback, then on wolfback. Or some other creature's back.

Death Frenzy

Frenzy is a rare dip into somewhat graphic violence for a Magic card. At least for me. Sure, there was a time not so long ago when graphic violence and gore-filled imagery was a staple of my artwork for such horror-based product lines as Werewolf: the Apocalypse and Vampire: the Masquerade. The gore in M:tG cards is usually quite PG-13 though which is fine by me as it forces me to establish mood and horror and danger without relying on blood n guts. However, a massacre at the jaws of undead crocodiles seemed to call for something a little more ham-handed. When I see videos of crocs coin' what they do best along the banks of the Nile, it is never anything short of grisly.

Plenty more Tarkir images will be arriving as subsequent sets come out so keep in touch!

Lady Jaina Proudmoore - by Jesper Ejsing n' Me

A few years back, fellow fantasy illustrator Jesper Ejsing and I collaborated on a World of Warcraft portrait of Jaina Proudmoore for the World of Warcraft TCG. Jesper did the drawing and I applied the acrylics.

The piece has recently been repurposed for the popular Hearthstone online game and has hopefully rekindled interest in the excellent artwork many of us illustrators have done for Blizzard. That said, Jesper and I have decided to slap this illustration of the wasp-waisted platinum-haired heart-throb Jaina on eBay for a rare opportunity to own a Jesper Ejsing AND a Steve Prescott original in one piece! Happy bidding!

EBAY auction for Lady Jaina Proudmoore

Inside the Deck Artist Interview

My only customer at GenCon in 2006 

was my 15 month old daughter.

I've done lots of interviews - written, audio, video - you name it. Because I'm not very good at giving short, succinct answers to interview questions, I feel like I'm either a good interview (because I like to jabber about my job) or a terrible one (because, jeez, shut up already).

Thank goodness for the times when a good interviewer comes along who expertly pares down my long-windedness and employs some really well done video editing.

In this Inside the Deck Artist Interview, Rich Castle does a fantastic, high quality, and (unlike my answers to his questions) nicely succinct documentary-style video interview with yours truly. My thanks to Rich for making me look like I'm not a completely self-absorbed prima-donna doof!

STEVE PRESCOTT INTERVIEW

New Prints Available at Cincinnati GP March 21-22!

I've had numerous requests for prints of the hyper-rare San Diego Comic Con exclusive Variant Planeswalkers. However, all I had were the black and white versions of the artwork - no color. Well, I happen to have a bit of time in my schedule the next few weeks leading up to the Cincinnati Magic Grand Prix so I'll get to dress these Planeswalker pieces up in appropriate print form. Be the first to purchase one or all of these prints in Cincinnati March 21 and 22!!!

Until then, enjoy some teasers of the prints to be.

I'll be signing cards doing playmat sketches, selling prints, Artist Proofs, originals, books, and playmats Friday late afternoon and evening of March 21 and all day from about 10:00 to 8:00 Saturday March 22. Hope to see you there!

Roon on Ebay!

The popular "Roon of the Hidden Realm" card art for Magic: the Gathering is now up for auction on Ebay! 

It is acrylic on bristol paper - 11x15 with a one inch white border (the bristol paper it is on is 13x17).

Auction ends next Monday afternoon.

Check it out!

Art from the now defunct World of Warcraft TCG

Thought I'd post a few of the last paintings I did for the now defunct World of Warcraft collectable card game.  Not by coincidence are these some of my better pieces I did for that game. That's because it took a while to warm up to working on Warcraft.  As I'm sure you already know, Warcraft style sensibilities are pretty ham-fisted and obnoxious. Also, there isn't a whole ton of room for creative freedoms because many of the characters or settings had a very specific look that needed to be stuck close to. But after working on multiple sets for the card game, I grew to embrace and have fun with it.

The huge super-stylized armor and design motifs are based on assembling a bunch of simple shapes which plays into my strengths quite comfortably. Warcraft also seemed appropriate for splashy and vibrant colors which I tend to like to employ. These factors and being given some time to warm up to the game gave me the opportunity to do some paintings for which I'm pretty pleased.

This all worked out best for me if the commission was essentially "make this character look cool/awesome/kick ass".  It's when these characters with their massive and cumbersome armor had to be doing a specific action that it became an awkward chore. There is almost no action that can be done in some of this armor other than stand there looking tough.

Here's some Warcraft art from some previous posts:

Here and a tree guy Here.