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Bloodbraid Elfby *SteveArgyle

Digital Art / Paintings & Airbrushing / Fantasy

Here we have a lovely amazonian elf who's lost her way. Or perhaps found it.

For followers of Magic: the Gathering, this is a Naya vixen who found life in the barbaric wild of the jungle just a touch too safe and mundane. So she decided to venture to a place where you can become barbecue at any second, just because the land beneath you felt like burping.

I wanted to give her a sense of being an immersed immigrant. She's adopted much of the dress, customs, and ways of her new home, yet retains and incorporates her own history. Not entirely acculturated in this strange land.

For scheme, I thought it'd be fun to experiment with a mostly neutral subject on a highly saturated and active background. Kinda the opposite of what I usually do. It's amazing just how much color we perceive from context alone.

For Magic: the gathering, copyright Wizards of the Coast.

Art direction by Jeremy Jarvis.

Obsidian headdress by Sharphead, a division of Discount Bandages and Sutures Incorporated.

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~PaigeN7 May 2, 2012

This is awesome.. I wish I could do stuff like this. Dx

~OutlawedToons May 1, 2012 New member Professional Digital Artist

Love the druidic look.

~JDAntoine Apr 20, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Still love this piece of worth of you the most, it's the use of colours that fit the card and the card itself in all it's foilyness.

Just fantastic!

*DuskDiamond Mar 28, 2012

Ohh, now that is an elf.

~EmeraldGrizzly Jan 26, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

The contrast of forest to mountain is incredible. She doesn't seem lost like some may think, but rather, ready for the challenge. I love it, being a red/green planeswalker myself, it's awesome!

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~Overlord-J Jan 4, 2012

You are such a great artist! And your comments here are incredibly funny, would you mind if I add you to my watchlist?

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*SteveArgyle Jan 12, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Please do!

~Overlord-J Jan 12, 2012

I did.

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~Amitanchan Dec 26, 2011

I absolutely love it; I think it is a huge improvement over the other version of Bloodbraid Elf.

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And righteously she held a sharpened blade within her hand.
Never hesitating to slay all within her way,
Creating paths of blood that followed her through Wonderland.

*SerenaSchwinge2acc Dec 4, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

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