MTG: Instrument of the Bards (2020)
Like peanut butter cups
Like many Magic artists of my generation, I grew up playing D&D. There was no Magic: The Gathering back then. My first encounter was the, “Red box” set, which a classmate let me borrow in 6th grade to look over to see if I wanted to play. The Larry Elmore art in particular entranced me but it wasn’t until 9th grade that I played. But I was fully in at that point, in one campaign at school and running another at home for a different group of friends. I played a lot of D&D until my Jr. year when a certain young lady ended my run of playing! A tale as old as time.
Those were formative years for me as a young artist, and the TSR studio artists were among my early heroes. I copied so many D&D and Dragon Magazine illustrations in pencil, colored pencil, and eventually in early forays into oil and acrylic painting.
