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Sketched a more “normal” fantasy landscape yesterday. Process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_kywAEK1VQ

I think realistic expectations for creators are essential for happiness & sustainability.
So, realistically for me:

Good work day – 3 hours
Fantastic/exhausting work day – 6 hours

Trippy landscape, process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtL_CzS30Jw

Defining a new genre: Erotic Landscape Painter.

So @ImRachelBradley just made me the best necklace.

I’m doing mailed-in card signatures now: https://noahbradley.com/products/mailed-in-card-signatures

Quick sketch of an underground throne.

Process video here: https://youtu.be/V3F_dzNwVZw

“Let’s have a weekend!”

“Yeah!”

“…”

“…sooooo what do people do on weekends?”

Check out some of my new Magic pieces for next year

Echoes of Another Life

Art Camp students start with their first finished landscapes this week. Always fun to watch. 🙂

More playing.

Process video right here: https://youtu.be/vgJ8y3R8IiM

New sketch experiment from last night. Uploaded a process video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57znv-Wo4H8

Just playing.

Somewhere Between Here and There

Quick sketch from the other day.

Godless Shrine

https://noahbradley.com/products/godless-shrine

The sketch for Mizzium Mortars.

Raise your hand if you’re totally forcing Izzet at the prerelease next weekend.

The awesome folks at Possibility Storm have put together an all-Noah-Bradley edition of their MTG puzzles. https://www.patreon.com/mtgpuzzles

The sketch for Boros Guildgate

My initial rough sketch for Izzet Guildgate.

This was the alternate sketch for Strionic Resonator.

Surreal landscape from the other day.

Quick process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oJtbFdPBYM

Listening to a book about food while fasting is a bad decision.

Ok one more quick process video for today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oJtbFdPBYM

At the end of the year I’ll pick out a few of my favorite reads and share those. Spoiler: the trilogy biography of Theodore Roosevelt will likely be among them.

I am also a miserably slow reader. So audiobooks at 1.6x~ speed have been a boon for productivity and enjoyment.

One of my major goals for 2018 that has improved my life has been reading more. Already passed the 50 book mark for this year. It’s been amazing. Can’t recommend it enough.

Another sketch process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqIyJpOtKqs&feature=youtu.be

Screwed up yesterday’s video order, so here it is in proper order. Watch me sketch a landscape super fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9KzwGZCEQo

Just uploaded a new sketch video: https://youtu.be/t198RFmNWY4

Planning to do online mentorships again starting in November. 5 student max, meeting once a week on hangouts for paintovers and Q&A. Sign up for my mailing list to find out when signups go live. noahbradley.com

Another of yesterday’s sketches. Felt so good to just play again.

Been working super hard on some Magic stuff for a long time now, but took a little time this evening to sketch some stuff just for me. <3

I didn’t get to do much work on Ravnica this time around… so enjoy this flashback to my most popular card from the last time we were on Ravnica.

Doing a live Art Camp critique on weather & climate in landscape painting in about 15 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdtt9VXgdM0

Don’t trust people whose brushes never stain or fray from use. They clearly possess some dark magics.

For sale: Cintiq Companion 2, i5 128gb. Unused in box. Shoot me a message at noah@noahbradley.com

Doing a critique of Art Camp student’s climate/weather sketches tomorrow. Always a fun thing to study.

A little something I started last year that I still need to get around to finishing.

Kinda my first professional gig as an artist: painting interminably for Legend of the Five Rings.

BTW the new game is quite good.

As Darkness Rises

My first gig for D&D, almost 8 years ago now.

Flow states are rarely achieved on Twitter.

(Irony noted)

The sketch for Karn’s Temporal Sundering.

https://noahbradley.com/products/karns-temporal-sundering

Yawgmoth’s Vile Offering

https://noahbradley.com/products/yawgmoths-vile-offering

Remembering Home

Just uploaded my process video of how I painted New Horizons for Magic: The Gathering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMal-Ai8nzk

I have to delay my book until at least next spring—good work opportunities came up and I just couldn’t say no, leaving passion projects like my book relegated to the back burner. 🙁

Rachel just baked fresh bread and I am reminded, once again, why it was such a good decision to marry her.

It’s a strange transition to see a painting go from something worthless, roughly treated, sanded, scrubbed, etc. to something delicately treated and valuable when it’s done.

Doing an Art Camp critique in a few minutes. Talking all about lighting and color. 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1I8UIO2kQ4

Uploaded a super-sped-up painting process video of Endless Sands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEOEoxPjW1k

Quick sketch I did of my wife a while back–I should paint her more. It’s a damn shame to have such a pretty wife and not paint her a lot.

Dimir Swamp for Guilds of Ravnica

Boros Mountain for Guilds of Ravnica.

May your creatures always be tapped and attacking.

Chief of the Ways

I have vanishingly little work in Ravnica, but I’m still damn excited to play it.

Thanks for the good times, #GPRichmond

Now I’m gonna sleep for a week.

Last Magic original I have available right now. Looking for $4k. Shoot me an email at noah@noahbradley.com

The Khans of Tarkir Mountain has sold. 🙂

Available here at #GPRichmond the Khans of Tarkir original Mountain painting

Did this little sketch on the back of a History of Benalia proof in my down time. #GPRichmond

Good morning, #GPRichmond 🙂

Some quick concepts painted earlier this year for the pygmies in The Sin of Man.

Horizon Canopy

Prints and playmats available here: noahbradley.com/products/horizon-canopy

Doomsday

Doing another Art Camp critique this morning at 10am EST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK5AnEGOKGk

I’m not exactly known for my Legacy-playable printed cards, but stop on by anyway at #GPRichmond 🙂

Random oil painting tip: don’t paint while wearing a white shirt. It’ll reflect more light on to the painting and mess you up.

Cleansing Nova

Because everyone always needs more board wipes.

Come see me at #GPRichmond this weekend!

I’ll have lots of prints, playmats, artist proofs, and sharpies. 🙂

Come see me at #GPRichmond next weekend. 🙂 Also, to repeat myself: noahbradley.blog/signing-fees

Some quick concepts for the giants in The Sin of Man I did earlier this year

Tears of Valakut

Jaya’s Immolating Inferno

noahbradley.com/products/jayas-immolating-inferno

Bird by Bird should be one of those required books for anyone pursuing any sort of creative endeavor. And returned to when encouragement is needed. https://amzn.to/2o6dQ6u

Doing our weekly critique for Art Camp and you can come sit in. We start in just over an hour and we’re talking about lighting in landscapes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6PuhXuxRvU

Gotten myself into the addictive habit of painting to audiobooks instead of music. Currently wrapping up the series on Theodore Roosevelt, which is pure gold: https://amzn.to/2OQLvfW

Giant Growth

Prophetic Prism

AKA Kaladesh Disco Ball

Forgotten Cave has now sold. Thanks for all of the interest. 🙂

Oh, just one more thing. :)

Mountain from Kahns of Tarkir. Oils on board, 30×20″. Hearing offers $2k+ today. noah@noahbradley.com

Last, and certainly not least, I’d like to sell off my BFZ Swamp original. Oils on canvas, 43×32″. Will take $4k for it. noah@noahbradley.com

Also for sale, the original for Forgotten Cave. Oils on canvas. Dropping the price a bit. Just looking for $2k for it. noah@noahbradley.com

Original oil Tarzan painting. 30×20″, oils on board. Wouldn’t mind selling this off. I’ll take $1.5k for it. noah@noahbradley.com

Anyone have a drafting table light they really like? Bright, neutral, and not much glare, obviously.

Karn’s Temporal Sundering

https://noahbradley.com/collections/magic-the-gathering/products/karns-temporal-sundering

How I Became an Artist https://medium.com/@noahbradley/how-i-became-an-artist-4390c6b6656c

Maybe you should stop procrastinating and watch the latest episode of Creators.Chat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYL4D9JiY3w

Go get 20GB+ of absolutely-free (for commercial or personal projects) photo reference from all over the world. Photobash to your heart’s content. https://gum.co/reference

New episode of Creators Chat is live now!

Got a question for Creators.Chat? You can now ask anything you’d like about creating, life, or whatever right here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaYHhMJ6o0DJZ6Gl4iRB3X-iV5fDDo-zLZwSWVx0z2lUl8Hg/viewform

New episode coming tomorrow!

Doing a live Art Camp critique starting in about 5 minutes. Come learn to paint better clouds and mountains.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KjIk2buafAw

A few notes on signing fees, artists, and GPs: noahbradley.blog/signing-fees/

See y’all at #GPRichmond in a couple weeks. <3

Highly recommend reading Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. It’s an enlightening look into the extremely varied lives that facilitated the creation of so much great work.

https://amzn.to/2KU7pwb

Can’t show my painting but look at these pretty colors. Dioxazine purple is a life saver (winsor violet, to be more precise).

The River of Dreams

thesinofman.com/the-river-of-dreams/

Happiness is new brushes.

Self-Assembler

Transguild Promenade

Plateau