Inspiration comes to me from many different places, one of the big places is games.
Magic the Gathering is the biggest and has therefore held my interest the longest. Recently I restarted playing and fell in love with the art all over again. I was showing some sketches to some friends while we were playing and they suggested I try a bit of card alteration. I was like "what?" and "who?", so I investigated.
Card alteration is where an artist takes an existing card and paints, draws, or inks something on the surface to make the image different. They range from a simple addition to a fully repainted card. I enjoy adding to the cards now, usually in a humorous way. These cards are generally still legal to play in tournaments and more just to make your deck unique than anything else.
This is one that I have done and am pretty happy with. I am still gearing up but responses have been positive so I will continue.
I do believe this will become a habit.
Lets call it Magic Monday.
May all your dreams be steamy.
Ralston