Vessel of Destruction

Awesome post there Sir Dr Robert the 55/3 and thanks! Now I know where to find those that I covet.

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248/18

Tokens are in! Thalia print!

Fire rooooooooster!

@ascendedminionproject @steveargyle

asrttyoxo

Okay, what is Fire Rooster? I know screaming chicken.

I have no clue. My idea + Steve’s brain = fire rooster!

Wow! You get a print with the token?! Such a cool patron level!

Yeah! Time to rack-and-stack my favorites!

Anybody have suggestions on ways to store and display prints of this size? They’re 11″x14″ and there’s no way I’ll be able to frame them all (there will be more!). I’m wondering if there’s a print display binder or something I can start…?

Go to dickblick.com There are a lot of options to choose from. I currently use non refillable presentation binders.

It was only a matter of time.

Honestly. That’s what first comes to mind when I think about what to say about Minion #194. Check out the history.

This Minion began their quest in the shadow of previous Ascended Minions from Hive Alpha a little over three years ago. Collecting chops that start at a “Bronze level” alter… tough to come by… and continue up to a recent 100+ binge of Night Market Guards.

Other notable… notes… bribes! Sorta. Sending me donations for Ascended Minion Project is not a sure road to Ascension… but it never hurts. I give away lots of stuff (something from my personal collection only an hour or so ago) so every little bit helps. Donating money isn’t usually a thing, but helping out with the recent acquisition of a few thousand of Steve’s L5R cards was definitely a welcome gesture.

On that note Minion #194 was the only non-Ascended contributor to that lot purchase. Was. I have to say that I had intended on selecting Minion #194 for the next Ascension at that point if none other of greater prowess emerged in the interim.

Also on that note, procuring that lot for the Ascended Minion Project coffers finally allowed me to assemble the card pool needed to produce the AMP PACKS that are intended to reward Minions for Game Shows and Ascensions.

This is the first of the Ascensions that AMP PACKS will be rewarding! (They still aren’t ready yet pending Steve’s contribution to their contents… but I am on top of it.)

The Ascension AMP Packs will include a “favor” card from now on (at least that’s the current plan) that can be redeemed for some act of generosity from Steve Argyle himself! This is sorta the ultimate goal of participating in Ascended Minion Project!

It’ll seem more official when that pack arrives in your hands but for now it is still my unique privilege to announce that you, Minion #194, are now also to be known as ASCENDED MINION #32!

Congrats!

Got my sweet, sweet tokens! The matte ones are interesting. No sign yet of my special request… keeping my fingers crossed as it involved a tool that Steve doesn’t normally use… @ascendedminionproject

… ? … like a jackhammer or something?

Photoshop is based on a raster whereas illustrator is based on vector technique, Raster images can not be made larger without scarfing quality while vector images are scalable. ...And the mystery deepens...

Avacyn the Understandably Mad at Her Dad.

Black Thumb graphite sketch on an MtG Token.

Gotta love a girl with Daddy issues..😈

Stuff to do with your Modern Masters 3 Liliana of the Veil: Customize your pure, dripping evil deck with alterations of slightly less evil things.

And as a bonus the price of the canvas has dropped, tanks to MM3 :)

Meekstone artist proof came!

I will look forward to getting this sketched on the back at some point when I can make an in-person appearance at a convention…!

@ascendedminionproject @steveargyle

Awesome AP! So what is the story behind the number 30/30?

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Liliana Vest

Hell YAY I would wear it and sleep in it too!

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“Queen and Defender”

It was awesome to be commissioned to design armor that is feminine and functional.

For Bushiroads.

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The shilloute tease from Steve Argyle 2016 by the numbers is revealed! 😈

“I am SO glad that Magic doesn’t zoom in on different parts of the same art for different cards.”

@qaantar has posed an interesting opinion about some of the Warlord cards graced with Steve Argyle’s illustrations. Most (but maybe not all) of his pieces that have had this done to them were obviously created with that intention known beforehand. I don’t know if that makes a difference for anybody or not, but it’s good to know. I recommend following all of the links in this post to learn about this complicated illustrating method that’s probably a lot harder than it seems.

A major example is Steve’s second outing of freelance work ever, The Nine Kami.

Also for Legend of the Five Rings - Scorpion City and Kaiu Wall. Those two pieces were turned into thirty cards for the game.

Tomb of Shinsei was cut in half to make two illustrations and is also mostly part of a third one as well.

Katana of Fire was subject to the “zoom in on” technique to make a token created by that card.

Tattoos & Trinkets was also used for two images with an edited “zoomed in” approach that Steve obviously had up-front knowledge of.

The Next Wave was turned into six Warlord illustrations.

Thalaasa, Ocean Queen was turned into four Warlord cards.

Niobe, of course, is the illustration that sparked the comment above, and was turned into ten illustrations with edited zooming in a really complex arrangement of layers.

Hoard of Gold, Stacks of Gold, and Sandtiger’s Fang (Steve’s very last illustrated card in Warlord) are all just straight-up “zoom in” jobs.

asrttyoxo

When I went through all of the L5R cards for one of the Game Shows I stumbled upon Scorpion City and spend way too much time there. I really enjoy that art and how it was cut up.

Otherwise there are some examples that I am not a fan of because they are just chopped up bits rather than pieces telling a story.

It’s really good to know that they did it with Steve’s knowledge beforehand! I did not expect that to be the case…

Even so, I’m all for maximizing the opportunities for art in a set. Take Aether Revolt for example, imagine if the token art for Ragavan (the legendary monkey) was a zoom-crop of Kari Zev’s art. I would not be a fan. I’m sure they would have changed the art to make the pose less bad for cropping, but still, it comes across (to me) as lazy and cheap on the part of the game developer.

It is quite the common practice. The publisher gets more mileage out of piece of art.

Outside of the contract agreements some will give the artist some extra cash at a reuse rate less which is less than the original rate. A lot don't.

Personally I am not found of it.

ascendedminionprime

I’ll just assume this is Liliana, Chandra, and Thalia. I got this in the mail today as an unexpected gift from an Ascended Minion!

Freakin’ sweet! Thank you!

THANK YOU MINION #248/18!

(If anyone else wants to randomly gift me alters I am open to your generosity…)

Also the surplus Steve Argyle cards you sent me are welcome here and I will find them a good home someday!

You are welcome and THANK YOU for starting the 🔥 we all love and know as Ascended Minion Project.

I picked up this alter of Liliana , Chandra and Elspeth from Steve at GP Chicago a couple of years ago.

I should have guessed that. Liliana and Elspeth used to be… pretty close.

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ascendedminionprime

I’ll just assume this is Liliana, Chandra, and Thalia. I got this in the mail today as an unexpected gift from an Ascended Minion!

Freakin’ sweet! Thank you!

THANK YOU MINION #248/18!

(If anyone else wants to randomly gift me alters I am open to your generosity…)

Also the surplus Steve Argyle cards you sent me are welcome here and I will find them a good home someday!

You are welcome and THANK YOU for starting the 🔥 we all love and know as Ascended Minion Project.

I picked up this alter of Liliana , Chandra and Elspeth from Steve at GP Chicago a couple of years ago.

Aether Revolt’s Masterpiece list just dropped, and it brings with it good news for the AMP! - Minion #205

We will singlehandedly affect the secondary market value of this card… - Justin

Awesome kick off for the New Year..

LEATHERBOUND MISTBORN! LEATHERBOUND MISTBORN! LEATHERBOUND MISTBORN! LEATHERBOUND MISTBORN! LEATHERBOUND MISTBORN! LEATHERBOUND MISTBORN! LEATHERBOUND MISTBORN! LEATHERBOUND MISTBORN! LEATHERBOUND MISTBORN! LEATHERBOUND MISTBORN!

😈SWEET😈

“Nerf THIS!”

…Can you tell which game I’m currently binging?

Awesome alter of D.VA from Overwatch. 😈

If you’d like to join us for Sketch n’ Skotch tonight, remember that we’re doing an early edition! 4pm Pacific time.

Tonight’s episode - On the Table: GP Atlanta pre-orders!

(This isn’t one of them though. This is kinda old. But I don’t think I ever posted it.)

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First time I have seen this photo...Thanks! 😈

I think this image needs more discussion… because…

Now I would be remiss in my duties if I didn’t try to find out something more about this project. Here’s all I can find so far… and I’ll put a screen capture of this so we can see the “No Cover Available” thing forever…

From the comments inside this post…

“northwestsmith said: I suspect this is actually for a mistborn novel or novella, the costume and look on the woman are a dead ringer for Vin, one of the protagonists of the first trilogy”

Upon further review I have to agree. Forgive me… I’m not a reader and don’t know this universe. I defer to the fans of Mr. Sanderson’s works. There is a Mistborn book in the same site that also has “No Cover Available.”

Perhaps with the proper confirmations we can tag this artwork with things like “Mistborn” and “Vin” and “Lost Metal”?

That October 2018 release date though… I sure don’t want to wait that long…

We have some more input:

poison-stripes said: //Minion 64 here says it can’t be the cover of Lost Metal. Reason being is that Vin is standing on one of the spires of Kredik Shaw. As for Lost Metal, last I checked Vin is deceased and what was left of Kredik Shaw went away after the Catacendre.

Well now… what we need is some suggestions as to what it could be then. We know that the art has not yet been connected to a yet-to-be-released work. We are confident that the character Vin is the subject. Apparently the location is a place called Kredik Shaw. Does anyone know a work that this information properly connects?