The Third Annual Artful August
Welcome everyone from the MTG Cardsmith artistic community, this is our THIRD Annual challenge where you get to show off your skills in both artwork and card-making, and be generously rewarded for it!
Challenge:
As in previous years, we want you to create a Custom Card, using original artwork created and owned by you. Cards will be judged on both standard contest design rules, as well as the artwork design and relation to the card concept presented.
Entries will be accepted from August 1st - August 31st. Winners to be chosen by our League of Judges and announced the first week of September. You may only enter one card url, so submit wisely. Cards may be directly edited (premium feature) on the same submission URL until the final day of the contest, but you cannot re-post/enter more than once.
Prizes:
1st: $50 Amazon gift card + 2 months of premium membership
2nd: $25 Amazon gift card + 1 month of premium
3rd: $10 Amazon gift card + 1 month of premium
Best artwork award: Custom MTGCS Avatar from your original Artwork
Best Traditional art award: $25 Amazon gift card
Best pencil drawing: 1 month of premium
@Ian_The_Guru and the MTGCardsmith team have generously expanded the number of winners and prizes so that more of your creations can be celebrated! That means don't worry if you feel your artistic abilities aren't equal to some of the stuff you see getting posted, because you still have a chance to earn one of the many other prizes that are available!
This year's Inspirational Card is drawn and designed by our very own @Tomigon.
Now it's finally time for you to show us what you've got!
--Eligibility - Entrants must be over the age of 13 to redeem prizes. Previous contest winning cards or featured cards are not eligible, sorry. Each entrant authorizes their card submission & username for contest and future promotional use by MTG Cardsmith. By following the contest entry steps listed here you agree to the terms and rules of the contest. Limit 1 entry per person. These rules are subject to change, by participating in the contest you agree to these terms.
Comments
I know you can do it
It does!
We judge both sides because double faced card is one card. But we only look at one art. This is for not to make the chance to win artwork award doubled. So participants need to tell us which art they want us to look.
Since the card doesn't have the best quality, I'll post the full art right down below, so you can look at it better:
The concept I thought for this contest is some sort of "cobra+lionfish" hybrid, with a hood and tendrils which shift color, in order to hypnotize its prey. In addition, I thought that since both cobras and lionfishes are very poisonous/venomous, it should only be fair to give it Deathtouch.
If you are wondering, [EMA] is my own watermark, I didn't put "Scaccogaming" because I intend on using this very art for other prejects. If you need proof for any particular reason, here's the first hand-drawn version before I translated it onto digital form.
Good luck everybody, may the best artist win!
And here’s the full art for a better view (because the card compressed it super poorly):
This is actually a character of mine for a story/world I’ve been developing off and on, where a bunch of characters are directly inspired/based off of mythological creatures. In her case, the Phoenix. She is technically human, but in-universe she basically has the spirit of a phoenix as well. Hence her creature typing and abilities.
So yeah! This is my first time ever entering one of these contests, but here we go! Good luck everyone!
Can you post the card URL as well? Nice work by the way!
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/lothric-hollow
I've been doing a lot of Dark Souls based art lately, so I thought I'd use one of them here. The drawing is influenced by the hollow on the cover art of dark souls 3. The Original was brighter, but I used some effects from a basic photo editor to darken it up. The card design choices are made with the idea of making a set based on each game with different types of soul tokens in mind.
Test card:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/azahara-petal-of-life
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/azahara-petal-of-life-1
I scanned for the digital file in case the painting went wrong.
It's all hand drawn by me, I've attached pictures of the art and an earlier version.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/toy-thopter?list=user
"KJD" is my username abbreviated .
This is my first time doing one of these, so best of luck to everyone!
Its not often I color my artwork, and for good reason. But for this contest I decided to challenge myself and I think all in all it turned out fine.
i added the full drawing and uncolored version
(Ignore the watermark, I had to orient and combine the images on a website)
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/garden-wot