Info about and from artists at Gen Con
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:20 pm
Wanted to pass along some interesting stuff I learned from the artists at Gen Con:
First of all, a lot of the artists that we thought might show didnt:
Jeff Menges
John Matson
Mark Tedin
Thomas Baxa
Willian O'connor
Brian Snoddy
Chippy
Scott Fischer
Jeremy Jarvis was there, but wasn't signing and didn't have a booth. WOTC didn't have any artist signings at all at their booth, which was sad. Overall it was a pretty big dissapointment in the lack of Gen Con's information flow and a dissapointment in the decrease in # and quality of magic artists (no guay, baxa, fischer, nielsen this year...). I pulled about 40 cards from various binders for Mark Tedin to sign, and he didn't even show up.
I learned some interesting stuff from the artists that WERE there that I thought i'd pass along:
Frost Raptor and Vexing Sphynx are one painting - Lars had it up in his booth, and it's gorgeous. Part of the Sphynx wing had to be edited out of the raptor pic. If you put the cards next to each other, you can see it - they face each other. He's a really nice guy.
Donoto Giancola had to paint two versions of Razia. In the first version, the background is a little greener, Razia is a little chunkier, and she's in a different pose. WOTC wasn't totally happy with it and told him to re-paint it - both versions were there and looked great. He was very nice and drew a snow man on my German Chrome mox for free.
There are two cards in dissension that were credited to Wayne Reynolds and another artist. Turns out he drew concept art for the two cards, then suffered a serious neck injury and couldn't do the actual paintings, so the second artist created the artwork from his sketches.
He hadn't seen the chinese AA skeletal vampire until i had him sign one, but he did know about it. He said that the WOTC art team put the clothes on the skeleton without his knowledge, but that he thought their graphic artists were really great and didn't mind that they had to edit his work.
Ed Beard is still exiled by WOTC. He said that he tried to call Jeremy Jarvis (new art director) and didn't get a call back. He showed me a concept sketch of a very buff Stinkweed imp, and said he was told by WOTC to 'wimp him up' because if he looked strong in the art, people might think he was a more powerful creature than he really is.
Matt Wilson and Ben Thompson don't have any new Magic art coming out - they both have new full time jobs and haven't had time to do freelance art.
That's all I can remember that was of interest.
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First of all, a lot of the artists that we thought might show didnt:
Jeff Menges
John Matson
Mark Tedin
Thomas Baxa
Willian O'connor
Brian Snoddy
Chippy
Scott Fischer
Jeremy Jarvis was there, but wasn't signing and didn't have a booth. WOTC didn't have any artist signings at all at their booth, which was sad. Overall it was a pretty big dissapointment in the lack of Gen Con's information flow and a dissapointment in the decrease in # and quality of magic artists (no guay, baxa, fischer, nielsen this year...). I pulled about 40 cards from various binders for Mark Tedin to sign, and he didn't even show up.
I learned some interesting stuff from the artists that WERE there that I thought i'd pass along:
Frost Raptor and Vexing Sphynx are one painting - Lars had it up in his booth, and it's gorgeous. Part of the Sphynx wing had to be edited out of the raptor pic. If you put the cards next to each other, you can see it - they face each other. He's a really nice guy.
Donoto Giancola had to paint two versions of Razia. In the first version, the background is a little greener, Razia is a little chunkier, and she's in a different pose. WOTC wasn't totally happy with it and told him to re-paint it - both versions were there and looked great. He was very nice and drew a snow man on my German Chrome mox for free.
There are two cards in dissension that were credited to Wayne Reynolds and another artist. Turns out he drew concept art for the two cards, then suffered a serious neck injury and couldn't do the actual paintings, so the second artist created the artwork from his sketches.
He hadn't seen the chinese AA skeletal vampire until i had him sign one, but he did know about it. He said that the WOTC art team put the clothes on the skeleton without his knowledge, but that he thought their graphic artists were really great and didn't mind that they had to edit his work.
Ed Beard is still exiled by WOTC. He said that he tried to call Jeremy Jarvis (new art director) and didn't get a call back. He showed me a concept sketch of a very buff Stinkweed imp, and said he was told by WOTC to 'wimp him up' because if he looked strong in the art, people might think he was a more powerful creature than he really is.
Matt Wilson and Ben Thompson don't have any new Magic art coming out - they both have new full time jobs and haven't had time to do freelance art.
That's all I can remember that was of interest.
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