askshieldmate:

Elgaud Shieldmate is now open for interactions of both the ask and submission sort!

♠ A word from the illustrator,
This ask was chiefly created to promote the idea of taking non-essential characters and giving them a breath of life, as I hope to do with Elgaud Shieldmate. It’s an open challenge to those who wish to dive into a blank canvas and turn it into something spectacular.
On a more personal level, this ask blog is an experimental digital painting ground. My goal is to contribute no sketches, but instead do full paintings in a limited amount of time. In keeping with this goal, Ask Shieldmate will not be the fastest moving blog. However, I hope the gradual rise of quality will make it worth your while to watch. Feel free to undertake that part of the challenge with me as well. ;)

Elgaud Shieldmate is now open for interactions of both the ask and submission sort!

♠ A word from the illustrator,

This ask was chiefly created to promote the idea of taking non-essential characters and giving them a breath of life, as I hope to do with Elgaud Shieldmate. It’s an open challenge to those who wish to dive into a blank canvas and turn it into something spectacular.

On a more personal level, this ask blog is an experimental digital painting ground. My goal is to contribute no sketches, but instead do full paintings in a limited amount of time. In keeping with this goal, Ask Shieldmate will not be the fastest moving blog. However, I hope the gradual rise of quality will make it worth your while to watch. Feel free to undertake that part of the challenge with me as well. ;)

Innistrad and Avacyn Restored art by Jason Chan
Jason Chan is an Concept Artist and Illustrator for Film, Video Games, and Print. He was born in Stockton, California and moved out to San Francisco to study 3D animation at the Academy of Art University, but promptly changed his major to illustration and graduated in the Spring of 06.

Ever since I was a kid I’ve always been drawing characters for make believe video games, cartoons and comics. I also loved drawing my favorite X-men characters, warcraft heroes, and video game sprites. I drew a million Mega Man and Mario drawings. As I grew up, that love for video games and fantasy never left me. I grew to love fantasy novels and that inspired my work. Many of my favorite video games were japanese made so as I drew the characters from those games, I began to fall for the anime style. Of course, that lead me to watch anime - an addiction I still haven’t been able to shake. After a couple of years of horrible attempts at manga style art, I began school in San Francisco and actually got some decent life drawing and anatomy practice.

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Innistrad and Avacyn Restored art by Jason Chan

Jason Chan is an Concept Artist and Illustrator for Film, Video Games, and Print. He was born in Stockton, California and moved out to San Francisco to study 3D animation at the Academy of Art University, but promptly changed his major to illustration and graduated in the Spring of 06.

Ever since I was a kid I’ve always been drawing characters for make believe video games, cartoons and comics. I also loved drawing my favorite X-men characters, warcraft heroes, and video game sprites. I drew a million Mega Man and Mario drawings. As I grew up, that love for video games and fantasy never left me. I grew to love fantasy novels and that inspired my work. Many of my favorite video games were japanese made so as I drew the characters from those games, I began to fall for the anime style. Of course, that lead me to watch anime - an addiction I still haven’t been able to shake. After a couple of years of horrible attempts at manga style art, I began school in San Francisco and actually got some decent life drawing and anatomy practice.