Cactuar JoeOkay, we're doing this. Start: one fully hand-drawn Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist deck <3
Xu's ability is really interesting, it encourages you to build a deck full of super high Power/Toughness creatures with negative abilities (which her resurrection ability will strip out).
And I'm gonna draw these critters as skeletons in pen-and-ink crosshatched-style, so I hope you want to know what an Eldrazi's skeleton looks like :D
Disciple of Bolas is our first main board card! For the creature cards, I'm going to more or less replicate the official art but in pen and ink and skeletons :D
Next up on the decklist, Death's Shadow. Some of these are definitely very death metal album cover ^^
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First of the deck's Eldrazi is up next, with a little splash of color to highlight the unreal nature of the Eldrazi. Turns out Emrakul has a lightwieght spongy skeleton like a coral! She's so cute <3
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Backing up a bit on the list to do Ancient Stone Idol. I could never tell if the horns were on the helmet or the head, but I know which answer I think is cooler ^^
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Just realized I forgot to post last night :o Here's a dragon skeleton to make up for my tardiness.
Time for more skeletons :D Here's Gray Merchant of Asphodel!
Time for more Eldrazi! Kozilek is kind of an All Chitin Bastard so I went for a cutaway. Kinda like the effect, the silhouette works, y'know?
I'm jumping the queue a little because this is my favorite thing I've drawn in weeks :D
Whoops, forgot to post this earlier :x Been an annoying day.
Next up is Golgari Thug! Dredge seems like it'd be fun in this deck ^^
Little bit of Gisa for you. Went back and forth a bit on whether or not to add some color to this one, but I think the stark look works.
I'm in the middle of a game but I haven't forgotten about you all. Have a troll <3
I'm at 40 cards complete now :D I should start thinking about what to do with the lands this time. Inkblots? Dry brush? Hm.
I thought about making the moths skeletal, too, but decided it'd be a little much :p
Up next, Phyrexian Dreadnought! This was a hard one to skeletonize, but multiple rib cages feels like something Phyrexia would do ^^
And now, Millikin! Wicker skeletons! I was a little lucky on this one, simce the official art is partially unravelled anyway.
Phyrexian Triniform! I dexided to ignore the official art for this one 'cos it's just a boring humanoid robot. I'm gonna make some unique tokens for the split up bits, too :D
We're leapfrogging forward a bit so I can show off Dark Ritual, which is my favorite thing I've drawn in months :D
Also I opened a new portfolio site over at https://cara.app/michaelbeckett/portfolio , it's got actually nice photos of a lot of the stuff I've posted here. Organized and everything, too 🤯
So there's 22 Swamps in this deck and 22 bones in the human skull. Practically draws itself <3
I'm prototyping the Swamps and I'm using a pen my elder sibling @meredeth gave me, and it's got a wonderfully sketchy nib and nicely dark ink
but it takes AN AGE to dry and I'm going insane :P
Next up, Shadowheart! This was a fun one, always nice to play with a character with a well-established silhouette ^^
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Next up, Stitcher's Supplier. I like the idea of a skeleton selling organs, it's a nice reversal :3
30 more cards to go! If I do one card an hour every hour between now and tomorrow I can play this at commander night!
...Yeah okay, fine, I'll actually sleep and eat. Killjoy >_>
Today's treat is Void Beckoner! Another one where the official art was kinda boring so I did my own thing. Enjoy the eyes :D
Today is a dual-faced card, Agadeem Awakening and Agadeem the Undercrypt! These are always challenging, the bleed-thru can be a real issue.
Time for a little color :D The pose on this one was inspired by the Mirage version of Drain Life, which is a favorite of mine.
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