Making Magic Images
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
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Clint gives a walk-through of the creation process of three Magic: The Gathering images.
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"Only put light where you want people to look." In my 20 years of drawing and painting, I have never thought of it that way. Best piece of advice I've heard in years!!!
I was glued to the screen for 40 minutes.
Then you were glued to the screen 19 seconds more than the video.
where you ever unglued?
@@jundsheep7599 it includes 19 seconds of ads maybe
blew my mind to use a filter for that barrier learning a lot from this channel
Man, this was very useful, thank you so much! and Laura Tyler from Face Off was my favorite contestant ever, she was simply the best!
I'm no artist, but this was still really cool to see.
BTW I still absolutely LOVE the Syncopate playmat Clint made me!!!! Everyone who sees it is jealous. It's one of my favorite MTG things that I own.
Thank you so much for doing this! I have always been amazed by the art in Magic the Gathering and wished for several years to become a magic artist, but It was just wishing. This year I started to take my dreams seriously I gave up lots of things, started to practice non-stop every day and started to get illustration jobs for card games in Argentina but I have to get way better.
I wanted to thank you with all my heart because back then you made me realize it isn't impossible, I saw your work and your videos and have inspired me to keep going. Please keep making these amazing videos and wonderful artworks.
Thank you for sharing the process) And especially for explaining why you made one decision or another, very useful. I particurarly liked the advice about putting the lights where we want to draw attention to.
I recommend Hydrus Client to organize your photos. It's essentially a *booru for your own personal computer. You import pictures into the software and give them tags like "anime," "magic," "kneeling," "athletics," "fitness," etc. With the client you can then search for a specific tag or multiple tags to find images you've imported into the software.
Best part is that it's free. Though, the software's owner does deserve a donation since the software is so damn useful.
Thanks for the recommendation, had never heard of Hydrus.
Amazing video and great insight to Magic images. Very impressive how you balance all the aspect of an image so well... and still deal with revisions and updates! Excellent !
Really enjoyed the insight into your process and seeing how each image evolved. Thanks for sharing this.
My pleasure!
Just came across this video. Its easily one of the best concept to reality art videos around. Very informative and interesting to see your creative process, thanks
You're welcome, thanks for watching. If you're interested, I have continued the Making Magic series on my Patreon (www.Patreon.com/Swatches) with the last video being on Making Gisela, the Broken Blade and this month's content will be on Nissa, Vital Force.
Really interesting to see the work "creation" process of a professional artist thanks like it!!
That was awesome and I would definitely watch more videos like this. It was great meeting you at SCG Dallas and thanks again for the signed Grapeshots!
Thanks for watching and coming to the Dallas event!
this is one of my favourite videos on youtube. I just love it. I NEED MORE.
Thank you so much for this video it was very informative. I'd love to illustrate for Magic in time and it was really interesting to have you share the brief, your thought process throughout and what you shared with the art directors and their feedback. Thanks again!
Excellent demonstration! This is one of my favorite cards in 2015 (quickling) not only because of the mechanics in the game but because of your talent to bring life & flavor into the card. Your version of a faerie is miles away from what we've seen before in Magic. Well done!
Also I hope you'll have continued success working with Wizards of the Coast and I look forward to seeing more of your work Clint!
ur channel so good :) thats really help people like me who wanna be illustrator :) thanks god people like u exist :)
sorry for bad english
Thank you!
Greetings from Spain!
Thank you so much for this! It has been more helpful than I thought it would be when I clicked it by curiosity on Deviantart. Artists usually make videos about the drawing process and that is very helpful, but they never show how it is to work with a big enterprise. For hobbyists like me, who have never worked in an enterprise but really want to do it someday, this is very encouraging.
I've been doing commissions for friends and people who wanted to have a custom banner in their website for some time, but I've always wondered how professional works had to be done. By this video not only have I been happy because my painting process is very similar to yours, but I've seen that you encounter the same problems as I do when creating a drawing for another person (as happened in the second drawing you showed).
I'm going to watch all your gallery and the other videos, because this was really helpful. I hope you continue doing these, because I know it takes a lot of time to make them. I really wanted to thank you, so sorry if the comment was too long or my English it's not good!
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Glad to hear that you found the video helpful and thank you for watching!
I really enjoy seeing artists and their painting processes. This was very informative and interesting. I like that you showed us the creative briefs and discussed your thought process as you progressed each image. I would like to see more of this kind of video from you in the future, when possible. Thanks!
I would love for you to do more videos like this. It's very interesting to see the process of making the magic card from the beginning.
Amazing video ! Thank you so much for sharing your art and process ! 🔥👌
Fantastic video. I agree with you completely regarding preferring the head without crown, the original silhouette was perfect. Why do art directors have to meddle so much, it was already perfect in its simplicity. Also the crown detracts from the neck piece which was also quite perfect in the first phase.
Really interesting video, always nice to watch the processes and steps
You literally have my dream job! :) I used to buy Magic cards just for the character paintings back in '98.... so incredible and inspiring. Loving it.
i really liked this episode, id like to see more of this type
Very PRO Clint, i like it your art style. The card´s art in 2015 Origins from you are awesome. LIKE and thanks for the tutos.
commission listings aside, I've seen a lot of techniques I could make use of. Thanks for that, and I love your work!
Just wanted to say that u r awesome! not many artist I know of really goes in depth about the commission process and what to expect as far as revisions for illustration in a highly sought after industry. Thank u for ur time and energy u put into enlightening strangers.
Excellent video. Thank you for taking the time to make this.
Wow, great tutorial. I had never gone through the stages like you did in this tutorial, along with your creative thought process, and found it most interesting. Thank you for sharing how the process works. I did not think it was to long because it was so well laid out. Great job!
Very interesting to hear about the progress behind the scenes, thanks a lot for sharing!
Appreciate you taking the time to share this info, really learning a ton!
Thanks for sharing your process and also what magic briefs are like.
I didn't realize it until I looked up your name on the gatherer, but you've made a lot of my favorite Magic art. Nice job Clint, looking forward to your art in the future.
dude THANK YOU so much for this.
im a studying artist at home getting my fundamentals down, and its great to have these questions i have answered.
Great images. I happen to be drawing some fairies at the moment, for a commission, which isn't my usual sort of thing. The last of the pictures here may motivate me to push them beyond the little-humans-with-butterfly-wings convention.
Awesome video! Very insightful how you explained your thought processes and showed how you tried to make those visual adjustments.
This was really awesome and insightful!
I found your channel through the art advices video, and then I found out
you're an MTG artist, which is my favorite TCG, couldn't be happier :)
I'm a beginner concept artist and this inspired me so much, thanks e congratulations for the amazing skills and channel!
Wow. Just wow. Thank you.
Thank you, Clint!
This is so awesome! I always wanted to see what the process is like and you showed every little detail! Thank you so much!
Thanks for this Clint! The last image is one of my favourites of yours and it was nice to see how you developped it!
I am a big fan of yours! :) I hope that I can learn from someone like you
Great great video!!! This gives a really useful and inspiring insight on how it will be to work with a company like Magic, it's really interesting to follow the adjustments, it teaches a LOT.
This was really informative. I enjoyed watching =)
Great video! Keep 'em coming!
Great work! You are making me want to play my Syncopates now ;)
Looking forward to more Magic cards from you
Great Video love the play by play!
35:30 He’s right!! His name is Grima. And yeah, he looked way off, but I didn’t realize he didn’t have eyebrows!
The third image is a real masterpiece!
Great information here. I appreciate you sharing your thought process. I am currently a Storyboard artist and self published comic book artist but I have always wanted to do more fantasy illustration work. Was it difficult to break into Magic? Thanks again for your time and keep up the nice work!!
+Robert Marzullo The process of sending them a portfolio was not difficult. The difficult part was the years of study and practice to get my work good enough that they'd want to hire me.
This is a wonderful video, you're a great instructor. I am really in love with the colours you use!
Thank you for all that knowledge
What a fantastic channel. Thank you so much for sharing!
Awesome!!!This is a great tutorial .
Fantastic! Thank you so much!
super interesting! thank you for sharing. I've always been interested in the amount of artistic freedom MTG illustrators get. this has been great. thanks again :)
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I have other Making Magic videos available but they are for purchase and more in-depth. Feel free to check them out at www.SwatchesArt.com
Yay! I found ur channel! Been searching for some new knowledge! U have some very useful information thanks for sharing! 😊😊😊
That was outstanding. Thank you
This was incredibly useful to me. Thank you.
great video! very informative and helpful
Really liked this video. Seeing your process was very helpful
This video was really helpfull thank you so much for sharing it's great to hear and follow a professional perspective like that
absolutely amazing artwork
You are amazing! I am learning so much from you. Thank You!
Glad to see you back, and with a great video no less. It's hard to find videos of good illustrators talking about their jobs and processes, I mostly only see concept artists doing videos.
I was wondering if in a future video if you could go into a little more detail of how you go about setting up your compositions. Something I have trouble with in particular is depth and scale, I go to great lengths to insure all of my images have "accurate" form and perspective, however the environment always feels "small" or cramped for some reason, as if there isn't much to be seen beyond that particular area(kind of like a stage play). Any other tips you have regarding composition in general would be greatly appreciated as well :).
I'm actually outlining a Composition and Storytelling video so hopefully it won't be too long :)
Great, I have something to look forward to now :D.
Quickling was my favorite art from M15, so I'm really happy I accidentally came across this.
Great and useful video! Please, do more just like this one. The lenght of it ain't excessively long, as you implied, it's perfect since every word and step showed are important to the whole.
I've been playing MTG since I was twelve (that's seventeen years ago) and I've always been dragged in by the art -which is constantly getting better and better as the years go by). As you can imagine, I've always wondered what the brief sent by Wizards said and how the artists managed to bring it to life. I would love to see more of these, and if you can emphathize a bit more into Wizard's feedback to you during the creative process and how it transforms according to it, it would be awesome.
Thanks for sharing, and congrats on the illustrations.
If I may vote for the next three, I'd say they could be Eternal Thirst (for some angelical wingy stuff, which we all love), Jurubai Lurker (for some non-human creature that has a very rich color palette) and Perilous Shadow (to compensate with an obscure architecture based illustration). Personally, I'd love to see Temporal Trespass, since it's a card I run in my blue deck and the reasons I play it are: 10% because of what it does; 90% because I freaking love the picture!
awesome artwork
Great video Clint. I was wondering if you can do one on going from a rough image to something more polished and finished.
I just learned a lot! How do you approach characters like planeswalkers? How do you make the character look familiar, but still in your own style?
Great video, you're always really exhaustive in your information and I really appreciate how you also mentioned being a bit apprehensive when you first started doing Magic cards - sometimes one just wonders whether people as talented as you are also bastions of self-confidence, but I guess you're mostly not giving up and pushing through no matter what!
I really appreciated you taking the time to document the various steps and explaining the logic behind certain choices. I sometimes find that very skilled artists aren't necessarily very eloquent when it comes to why they do some things, but you're very clear and concise and it's so interesting to listen to why you moved something or changed a colour. I was also quite impressed by how you scrapped your first sketch and instead took another day with the crouching guy - it really paid off!
I do have a question, but I'm not sure I'll be able to word it very concisely: did you at some point figure out a way to train yourself in being more tidy and efficient (maybe disciplined) with your process? While watching this video I realised that you seem to build your images in a much more tidy way than I do process-wise and that's a characteristic that I notice with other professional artists as well: each step seems to change the image significantly, while for me sometimes I spend a lot of time between steps but not much seems to happen (eg: imgur.com/a/L86ua). Would you say that it's just something that comes with practice or are there some things that I/we could *force* ourselves to do to improve our process? I'm thinking along the lines of a checklist (don't stay too much on one area of the picture, work from the vague to the specific when blocking out colour, etc.)
Thanks so much for all the tips you share!
x-Ren-x I'm much more confident now because I've been doing it for years but at the beginning it was all new and I didn't know what I was getting into. I hadn't worked with and art director before, never had someone else dictate what I would draw or had to draw on a deadline.
By necessity you learn to draw faster and make better use of your time. Processes help that. Learning several dependable ways to begin a piece is a huge boost in getting you ready for the professional ring. It cuts down on trial-and-error, breaks the creation into manageable portions and keeps you from bumbling around not knowing what to do next.
My art teacher as a teen told me that a teacher that can't explain why you should make a certain change wasn't a teacher worth learning from. If you can't understand the thought process behind it then it's not learnable and reproducible and it has to be reproducible for you to get better. I intuit very little when painting, nearly everything I do I can explain by one of a thousand principles, guides or rules-of-thumb.
You probably waste time between stages because you either don't have a clear process approach (1. sketch 2. refine 3. shading 4. etc.) or you became impatient and rushed a step to get to a more "fun" step. Painting is like juggling, it's easier to juggle with two balls than five. Processes limit the number of elements you have to pay attention to at the same time. Having to balance the drawing, shading, values, color, composition, lighting setup, mood and perspective at the same time is very difficult. Break it up into pieces however and handling just drawing and perspective at the same time isn't that hard and the same for values/color or edges/brushstrokes.
People become frustrated because they try to balance everything at the same time and some elements end up falling by the wayside and not getting enough attention which weakens the piece. It's like a builder who starts building a house with the foundation but immediately starts putting in the bathtub only to realize that they need to go back and put the floor under the bathtub. Hours are then lost as the builder/artist has to keep backtracking to correct issues because the jumped ahead. Hope that helps and it's such a good topic I'm adding it to my video list. Best wishes, Clint
Swatches Wow, thanks so much for such an in-depth reply! There are a fair few things you mentioned that, if I think self-analytically, I can definitely recognise in myself.
I really appreciate it! Again, thanks so much for taking the time! I'll wait impatiently for the video, then, I always love to hear your insight on processes and techniques, your pdf book was really interesting too!
Please do more of these.
Hey, great video. Beautiful paintings. I'd like to see your process of going from values stage to colour
Very informative, thanks a lot!
I love the third image!
Thank you very much for sharing on youtube as free content.
May I know the file size dimension n dpi you used for these cards?
I love the fact that Stolen Identity stoled The Punisher's face, that makes it even better
really beautiful. i so wish i could do this. I'm still learning to sketch
I love you man... this is gold for me, thank you so much, please keep the amazingness
loved the intro
Thank you for sharing your process and insights - it means a lot.
Keep up the great work with these amazing videos! :)
Thanks for watching!
you ara an inspiration. thank you!!
thank you so much for this!
this was so great thank you so much for creating this video
Just Subbed. Your composition is awesome. I like your casual approach.
Thank you!!!
Amazing vids, love it. Avid watcher here!
Thanks for watching!
Really awesome and beautiful. I really appreciate the time you took to make this video!! :D I have been wondering so much about what is it like working on MTG illustrations. I hope I can make it there someday soon :)
I'm gonna stick to your channel and your other sites from now on!
This is GOOOOOOLD Thank you !!!!!
You're welcome! Don't forget if you want see more Making Magic videos then join the family at www.patreon.com/swatches
sure thing ;)
I like this video.
You should make more MTG videos like this.
so cool!!! love your work :D
Ok this will be an extremely dumb question but... when thhe art director tells you to change this or that after you send a sketch/the final picture, do you answer with and imageless mail that just says "alright cool got it I'll work on it see ya etcetera" or do you not reply at all and make them wait until you have that next step done to mail and show them? I'm really curious, this is vital information.
Enzo Depends on the situation and the art director. If it's an AD I haven't worked with I'll send more updates either text for confirmation or images to confirm direction. It's it's an AD I've worked with for years then we have a better understanding of what each other is meaning and needing and less back-and-forth is required. Smaller changes I wouldn't bother with image update but if it's a significant change of direction or if the directions are fuzzy then updates or more conversation is likely.
Swatches I see, makes sense. I have to say even details about stuff like that is quite interesting in its own way, haha. Thanks for answering, I love your videos and your art!
Awesome! Thank you for the tips.
hehe, I saw a couple of Ruan Jia imgs in your folder- I often have him in my work folders too. This guys is an endless inspiration and a final goal. Hi just won the game of style and brushwork, that's it :P Great video, thank you for sharing!
Great video!
Awesome bideo man!
wow, that video is so cool, the process of the creation of mtg arts really inspires me, there is more videos like that in youtube?
+TheImmortalSoul I don't know if any of the other MTG artists have similar videos, never looked for them. I will be releasing more like this in the future so you're welcome to check back here.
Please!
I really enjoy it