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_{Return to Equestria playmat complete! Done in two days, from the start of on-mat sketch (not the paper sketch). Ugh god I have never seriously tried painting buildings before; they piss me off so much nngghhh but I tried, and I already have a hard time drawing buildings beyond 1/2/3-point perspective exercises. They’re piss-poor copies of the originals. HULK SMASH BUILDINGS

I can't be any more serious when I say FUCKING PROPS TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE THAT DOES THE LAND ART FOR RAVNICA/RETURN TO RAVNICA BLOCKS. UGH GOD BUILDINGS WHY ARE THEY SO HARD TO DO JUSTICE

At least I like how Mind Sculpt (Jace) and Niv came out. Hardest mat I have ever painted.

Edit: Sold at Anime Expo to the guys working the Magic booth at the Tabletop Room! But don't worry - there will definitely be another Return to Equestria mat before Return to Ravnica happens - it will, of course, have a completely different design/scene as all of my playmats are one-of-a-kind and will never be reproduced.}

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~Scythe-7 Nov 11, 2012

I just died from the awesome

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~L33TM4573R Oct 17, 2012

i... WANTS IT!!!!

~Aozame32 Oct 2, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Hey there!

The gaming store I work at actually had this very mat in the store for sale! (Small world, huh?) I wanted to purchase it for the longest time, but someone beat me to the punch! XD

Fantastic work! My boss said that he was super-impressed with your work.

~Makimonster Oct 5, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Same deal with restorations of any commissioned work, as well - any hand-painted playmat I can restore for free if there's any major damage/smearing (though don't try and do any of that on purpose, of course! xD)

~Makimonster Oct 5, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks! And yeah, I believe I sold it at Anime Expo to your boss or to one of your coworkers - I'm glad you guys enjoy my work! If you know who's got the mat right now, let me know - it'd be nice to keep track of where it's going in the world~ Also, let them know (and tell them to let their next buyer know, if it gets sold again) that if there's ever any damage/smearing, that they can message/send it to me and I'll restore it+ship it back for free.

If you ever want to commission a playmat from me, digital designs are ~$30 and hand-painted mats are $60+ depending on complexity; shipping is free. ^^

*Prince-in-Disguise Sep 17, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I like this, it's so pretty!

~Xelmx Aug 30, 2012

HAHAHAHAH *Brohoof*

~Da--Master Aug 28, 2012

I f

cking love Friendship is Magic, I f

cking love Magic the Gathering, I f

cking LOVE Niv-Mizzet (fan-boy, not ashamed to admit it), and the knowledge that the next set is going to be a revisit to not only the plane that I was first introduced to but my favorite plane in the multiverse makes me squee like I do whenever I see any new multiplayer footage for Halo 4.

This is, simply put, awesome. There's a huge learning curve when it comes to painting (believe me, I know), but you managed to do all right. You captured the depth of the Ravnican city-scape well enough, the 'Return to Equestria' logo is cool, and the positioning between Jace and The Firemind is great, who I might add, looks as bad-ass as ever; you did a good job of combining the styles of MtG and MLP into your interpretation (though I thought that the portrait view concept sketch was the best), and my eyes find his color compositions and gradient washes from red to blue utterly delicious.

If there were a few pieces of advice I could've given, it'd be to put a little more attention into the detail and makes the shadows more prevalent; that way, the background wouldn't appear so hazy and the characters would seem more substantive and real. They look good now, but imagine more awesome they'd look as 'even better.'

But if there is one thing I can't wrap my head around/let go, it's that for some reason, you took Jace Beleren; famed scholar of the arcane, the epitome of the concept of blue mages, a magic user, and made his pony counterpart a Pegasus. Why? WHY?! POR QUE!?!

Speaking of which, this reminds me that I still never did finish my own 'Friendship is Magic the Gathering' piece... perhaps I can pick that back up again after I finish the next chapter or two of DECEPTION. (The fan-fiction I've been working on with my brother(s). Think MLP/Inception but with it's own original concepts, story, and villain.)

~Makimonster Aug 29, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Oops, the thumbnail messed up, try the link: [link]

~Makimonster Aug 29, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

(Jace as a Pegasus explained in description: :thumb309923410: yeah, popular consensus says that he should be a unicorn, but - I don't know if you look at my tumblr and have seen the Ponywalkers Pantheon sketches - but basically because every Planeswalker is a Mage, I had to be extremely careful about who got to be a unicorn and why. Yes, Jace is the ideal mage, but I also had to consider all other Planeswalkers as of January 2012, which was when I started doing the Ponywalkers Pantheon, and what they could and couldn't do, and along the way I realized that there wouldn't be very many pegasus ponies. As far as the Mana Five 2012, it was a toss-up between Chandra and Jace for Unicorn and Pegasus - and at least ONE of them had to be a pegasus. Both Red and Blue are mechanically excellent at spells that target opponents directly, and both Jace and Chandra are the epitomes of their colors. Flying, though, is primary in Blue, and in addition in the early designs the wings for Jace were supposed to be "part" of his cloak - they would be reminiscent of Jace the Mind Sculptor's flowing, ripped-up cape, and it was only WAY late into the designs/after the sketches were released that the wings and body of a unicorn should be consistent/the same color. Perhaps later on, I'll make him a unicorn, but in order to maintain design consistency between all of my MtG/MLP artwork - as well as making my work recognizable from other MtG/MLP fanart - Jace, at least for now is a Pegasus. Finally, though it wasn't nearly as important as anything else - this mat was originally going to just be my personal mat that I would keep for myself/never sell, but I was rather desperate for cash at the end of the con - and my friends and I have an inside joke that Chandra as a pony would basically be Rapidash from Pokemon, and thus a unicorn. >.> I hope that helps. xD;;

Thanks for the input! Yeah, looking back at it I really want to work that background more - as far as details go, it was far more detailed in the sketch but I was rather in a hurry to finish this before Anime Expo - but you're very right about the shading, and I actually didn't realize that before - but at that point the playmat surface was getting rather hard and I didn't want the paint to crack when rolling up the mat, or make the paint so thick that it would chip off when played on. xD;; If only it was digital, right!? (if you can't already tell from my gallery, I have traditional training but am specifically digital) xD;;

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