Taeryne

So Magic the Gathering is 30 years old this year and they have released a number of celebration products featuring highlights of each year... only to be met with unrestrained backlash from the community repeatedly. Now I don't disagree that many of these products are rather poorly executed, but I want some more positivity about what really is a monumental moment in gaming. So as my own personal tribute to this I will be painting (at least) 30 cards with personalized arts. I will select a card from each year that was both iconic to story or tournament play and I find interesting to redesign or personally still play. For each card I must concept at least 3 art variations before painting. Each selected concept will get both a full watercolor test run and final acrylic card painting. I will try to complete this project before the year's end, which will be at least one card every 2 weeks. Wish me luck! Progress: 1993 - Black Lotus 1994 - Ball Lightning 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999

Yay another successful year of Inktober! 2020 has been a rough year for most and thoroughly demoralizing in the art department. I wanted a theme to match the year, but not just draw depressing things. I don't think I could make it through the month if I did. I got to babysit my younger sister's (black) cat Luna last month and saw another deviant post their 100 cats project and my brain just sparked at the idea of drawing black cats as heralds of misfortune. This was really fun from start to finish. Beginning with the hunt for all the black cats. I had initially sat down and tried to come up with the list from memory only, but only came up with about 15 characters. I quickly turned to friends' suggestions which only added about 5 more to the list that I did not have already. SO of course I then caved and consulted internet-chan and wow did the list explode. I was pretty pleased to get to pick and cut cats instead of having not enough, but also felt bad about some who did not make the

I’m sorry in advance for this long rant. I just needed to get this all out of me. **EDIT** this is now a living post that I'm going to keep adding to as things come up** I've been posting on DA for 14 years (and browsing for a few additional years before), since the era of 20 some odd middle grays and we have come a long way. Lot's of great new features have been added, things have been "cleaned up" to be more understandable and thus accessible. DA (for me) is about sharing my art easily. What I liked about DA is that it was easy to use and had clean/simple (and not flashy/messy) visual layouts. It also has a huge community which gives me lots of art to discover as well! So I'm not so much on the "can we please not have eclipse" side, but the "please make it better". In no particular order I’m going to address a mess of things so I can self-analyze how much of it is actually bad vs acceptable growing pains I’m needlessly whining about. -Can we take an objective look at what DA is