Deceptive Frostkite

Final card spoiled for Tarkir Dragonstorm and my favourite that I did for this set. Thanks as allways to Ovidio Cartagena for the art direction and the opportunity to tackle this brief. Quite enjoyable to do a dragon for the dragons set. My original sketch had some creatures it would be defending itself from but in the end for card size we decided to focus on the effect of the illusion. Once again used some proceduralism to execute the dragons in this case, using curves that instnace the scales, antenas, etc. Helps a lot to adjust the composition as I go from the camera plus being a lighter scene, instead of being a static heavy sculpt, focusing on the gesture of the body, how it looks on camera. The final is quite cropped because originally was intended to be a borderless format that I guess went away.
Deceptive Frostkite
Tarkir Dragonstorm
AD: Ovidio Cartagena
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