Dispatch - Tempered Steel Deck Alters

The Dispatches were an interesting set of alters, between the orange and purple colour scheme and the chance to extend the art over other elements of the card frame. I'm still not entirely sure how many limbs this bug person ie meant to have though,

Ravnica Karoo Land Alters

I really enjoy altering lands, These three were no exception, while they are relatively simple you still have to try and maintain the feel of the place with whatever you plan on adding.

My favorite is probably the one in the middle, ok the  perspectives not perfect but the minimalism of the colours exudes eeriness. The Garrison was probably the most technically difficult, I like the way the arch frames the city and it took some time to get right.

Reborn Game-Mat

This holds the record for the mat that took the longest to do at somewhere in the range of 80 hours. to be fair most of that was research as apposed to production time as initial going into the design I had very little idea of what the person who wanted the mat was after. I find its very important to be able to figure out what it is the person your making things for actually wants there is often that unexplainable something that if you don't find you can tell they arnt as enthused as if you hit the target that falls closest to their expectations or aspirations. On the other hand sometimes people don't know what they want and its your job to find it for them.

203 episodes later I had a better Idea of what they were after and an appreciation of what each characters personalities were like (as well as finding out that the show is generally very good although I prefer the stuff pre future arc and it could do with a Dragonball kai style recut to get rid of all the recaps) the next challenge was fitting everyone onto the mat at a decent size. 

Something you might notice is that theres a slight shift in placement near the bottom middle this is from the scanning process after the mat is complete and doesn't exist on the original trying to scan a piece of material thats slightly bigger than 2 sheets of A4 wide in an A4 scanner is a tad problematic and requires some trial and error along with some slight image adjustment when the slices are put back together.

Porcelain Legionnaire - Tempered Steel Deck Alters

Picked randomly from the pile, next up from the Tempered Steel Deck we have this guy. The sky was obviously quite straightforward for these which with the number of card I had to do was a plus, the ground however not so much again matching purples can be a pain but I think we got there in the end. B because the subject of the art is central and doesn't overlap the boarders I think my favourite element of the card is the sunrise/set in the background.

One of the four of these was Russian which did lead to a situation where I wold have quiet liked to add some sort of big furry hat to the character and while most people seemed to think that would be amusing in the end it comes down to what the owner wants and he didn't seem as enthused about the idea so it was dropped.