More comic strips at Gathering Magic

I'm doing regular comic strips over at Gathering Magic, including one just posted today about the tough life of a Young Pyromancer. Get caught up here.

Once again, please adjust your browsing to keep track of the Inkwell Looter tumblr rather than this site. Tumblr is just a better place for displaying art. The bell tolls for thee, Blogger.

What's at Maze's End?

SO, I did this new comic for Gathering Magic, a Magic site I enjoy for their diversity of snappy content. You should click that link up there and go read it.

Expect more of my work to appear over at Gathering Magic, but I also intend to keep posting unique bits of stuff at Tumblr too. It’s not exclusive. I’m still available for hideous caricature-drawing at your wedding receptions, bar mitzvahs, and corporate team-building events.

These guys

Ugh. Can't wait for WotC to reboot birds.

A fourth floats forth

I expanded the human/soldier/knight token series to include spirits!

PDF is here.

PROGRAMMING NOTE REMINDER THINGY: I'm posting all art to my tumblr and recommend that you view it there instead of here. Due to declining support/features of Blogger (just look at that blurry, nasty image quality) I will not post using this service for much longer. Beat the rush and check out the tumblr. 

3 for 3

It's the third anniversary of Your Looter's first step from the inky shadows to publicly post art. Rather than write a mushy speech thanking all the little people who made this possible I decided to draw some people who ... uh ... are tokens. Three new tokens for three years of Inkwell Looter: a human, a soldier, and a knight.

Print them out and start marching!

PROGRAMMING NOTE REMINDER THINGY: I'm posting all art to my tumblr and recommend that you view it there instead of here. Due to declining support/features of Blogger I am wondering how much longer I will post using this service at all. Beat the rush and check out the tumblr.

Candy or dirt?

There's a run-off vote between Enchantment and Land in You Make The Card. Make an informed decision:

I'll level with you: this is what we in showbiz call "tongue-in-cheek." I actually LOVE lands. I still get a thrill every time I thumb to a non-basic in a pack. On the other hand, my absolute favorite cards are grievous enchantments like Grave Pact, Manabarbs, and Underworld Dreams. But I believe that for YMTC there will be more entertainment to be had on the enchantment route. Sorry, Land!

Experiments Two Through Five

Why stop at One?

They didn't specify which half.

I don't understand why the Simic think a frog lizard is a good idea. I mean:

Manufacture your own affronts to biology with this handy PDF.

Or maybe buy the original piece here.

Lootr

Your Looter is now on Tumblr as well. I'm going to mirror the same content there so you can follow either. I may move the main URL over to Tumblr at some point. It depends on how many times Blogger changes their image resizing procedure in the next ten minutes. Anyway, Tumblr is here:
http://inkwell-looter.tumblr.com

In addition, I've started ANOTHER Tumblr for cats + Magic cards pix. Yeah, you heard me. The multiverse is our litter box:
http://meowthegathering.tumblr.com

Send all your kitty MTG photos to me.

XOXO YOUR LOOTER

Irrefutable

A little love for a flavor extra hoping to jump to the big time: Blunk! When his parents gave him that name his future as a hammer-wielding goon was all but assured but now he's got eyes for something bigger. Really hoping Dragon's Maze steps up with Blunk the Blunked, Planeswalker.

Boros Boo-Boo Kisser

This guy. I kind of wish they'd gone all the way and made him creature type Spirit Ox.

Joy to the Worldspine

Season's greetings! Who doesn't love Ravnica at this time of year? The Izzet mix up their dangerous new holiday beverages. The air outside the Rakdos halls smells of roasting sage, thyme and victims. Golgari give each other gifts recycled from last year's gifts. Selesnyan chorale groups go door-to-door singing and handing out literature. The Azorius have their awkward office parties. And of course, the Schmazzgordios provided traditional wurm decoration.

As for the MTG community, my wish for the new year is for everyone to do their best to respect and include each other. It's been a rough patch (decade? forever?) for kindness in this community despite the fact that we have such excellent personnel. I don't expect MTGO to become a haven for enlightened discourse but let's all try harder to treat each other well, to think twice before shooting off that "clever" insult, and to understand the feelings of the players across from us. Let's make some progress.

XOXO
Looter

Blue Brothers

Hey these have been out in the wild for a while, but here's a closer look at the tokens I did for In Contention's Joey Snapsco, Trinket Matt Kranstuber and Reuben Bresler of Secrets.

Lil Tusk

You're all playing Thragtusk. Shut up -- you are. It is known. But the real fail is in how you spawn that baby beast. You're using Centaur tokens, UltraPro ad cards, pennies and Arby's receipts. Unsightly.

Here's a proper Lil Tusk for you to print and play. God, you're welcome.

Tilt ain't sexy.

You know that thing you do where you get all indignant that your opponent got lucky and you deserved to win because your deck is better and their deck is trash and they made a million misplays and you correctly did not mulligan ... you know that stuff? SO not attractive. Be a rational competitor. Be sexy.

Possible shirt/print design?

I have cards. You have cards. Let's ...

Let everyone know what kind of cards you're packing with Inkwell Looter format buttons, on sale now! SOLD OUT.

Going Back to Ravni

Please forgive my lack of studio polish. I am pretty much yelling into a tin can connected to my laptop with string. And now, without further ado, Rise of the ELDRZA AKA InkweLL Cool J presents ...


 
(Note for my age-deprived fans: this is a parody of LL Cool J's old school jam "Going Back to Cali." Look it up.)

Going back to Ravni, Ravni, Ravni
I'm going back to Ravni ... ca, I don't think so.
I'm going back to Ravni, Ravni, Ravni
I'm going back to Ravni ... ca, I don't think so.

Going back to Ravni, the city, so gritty
no itty-bitty shred of pity, on these mean streets
Two-fers of mana, supposed to choose a guild
But for now I’mma stay a free agent
Cause there’s ladies in the Senate and the Barracks and the Sewers and I’m pleased
to make their acquaintance
KABOOM spells are flowin, keyrunes tappin
Swervin to dodge that mana-screw
Speech is slurred, summon a bird
Drop a shock and take 2.

[chorus]

I’m going back to Ravni, samplin em, tramplin em
Rampin em to drops they never before hit
In the garden of the Conclave, tree roots squirm
Where the dryads wink, then populate a wurm
Like a prison term, Azorius, she’s drainin
Motionin, fili-busterin, detainin
I met her at the Swarm, to scavenge up some hugs
I want her bod, Jarad, but I don’t want your bugs.

[chorus]

I’m going back to Ravni, blasting, surpassing
casting all my charms, all three modes
Her smile - leered; type - weird
She said, she liked, steam.
She showed me a chain, mocked my pain
and unleashed a devilish scream.
Now I thought I was sick, but this girl was sicker
She’s lustin for arterial spray
I said, “Let’s park,” ignited my spark
and planeswalked the hell away.

You need these stinkin' badges!

The idea here is to provide snappy visuals to communicate your chosen Magic activity. Who's got what decks? Where the binders at?

Buttons (and maybe stickers) available soon!

Snakes on a Planeswalk

Yeah, summer is really happening, so I whipped me up a seasonal batch of liquid snake and cranked the ol' Serpent Generator:

This one comes with ssspecial sssalutations (sssaLOOTations, even?) to James Turner of LoadingReadyRun whose Commander game has sssuffered without sssexy sssnake tokens for far too long.

As always, you may download this pixel-packed PDF to print your own sweet varmints.

The ox that blocks

Ink/watercolor/vanilla

"Sheath that sword and go home. There's an ox in the way."