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Published: 2011-06-24 21:02:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 75556; Favourites: 1724; Downloads: 2570
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Jace Belerin. Master mixologist, blue things enthusiast, and literal plumbing wizard.Here we see Jace in a dreamlike moment of introspection and invention. Unlike me, this sort of dream does not cause Jace to wet the bed.
There aren't many paintings of Jace in which he's actually wielding his element - it's usually just glowy blue squiggles. I've always liked rendering challenges. And water is one of the toughies. So I decided to go just bonkers with it.
Check out the original sketch for how overboard I almost went with this, when it had been planned as a textless, vertical format card.
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For Magic: the Gathering. Copyright Wizards of the Coast. Art directed by Jeremy Jarvis.
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Because water is hard to work with in a photoshoot, for reference we used collected alien drool-spooge, slathered onto saran wrap, dried with a hairdryer, and bent into shape. Special thanks to H. R. Giger for letting us borrow a few aliens for the day.
Our condolences to Ensign Johnny Redofshirt, who did not realize what his brief, but passionate love affair with a charming face-hugger would ultimatly mean.
And congratulations Ms. Facehugger Redofshirt, on your new baby!
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Comments: 157
Holy water, what an amazing arrangement of sapphire liquids surrounding this mage and that blue ball. Beautiful.
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My foil promo of this is rather striking. Does a great job of drawing attention to an uncommon, by having the shiniest of arts.
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"Unlike me, this sort of dream does not cause Jace to wet the bed."
You cause Jace to wet the bed? Why and how?
(slaps Nonie the Grammarian to make her behave)
Cool work! And I'm jealous of people who have interesting dreams, besides. 
Mind you, interesting dreams come in all kinds; a writer friend just told me she had a stunning dream about Idris Elba in the glorious nude except for a pair of argyle socks. Luckily, that doesn't seem to be an actual kink of hers; she interprets it as her need to stop playing the wise elder statesman all the time and let herself be a squeeing fangirl now and then.
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My friend used this card in a game awhile back, it's so cool I found it here. Awesome work 
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Absolutely stunning work~~ Β Β Love the choice and usage of colours, looks fantastic 
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I really like this waterbending version of Jace
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As hard as this is to see at card-size, I think this would have been better than Igor Kieryluk's version, actually. No offense to Mr. Kieryluk, but I really, really love Steve Argyle's style. I don't think I've seen one picture he's done that I haven't liked.
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This is probably my favorite picture I've seen of Jace. Hope wizards uses your picture for some card!
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absolutely amazing work! I love very much.
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I love your art.
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Thank you
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god damn it
the description is way better than the picture
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Beat me to it, dang it
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May I fall in love? beautiful art and beautiful personality it seems, quite fun.
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rule one of Jace: never fuck with Jace
rule two of Jace: if you fuck with Jace kiss your ass goodbye
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My favourite planeswalker and my favourite colour
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This is so amazing. Jace will always be a game changer.
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My god, does your talent know no bounds?
That looks like water, no way around it and you're totally right, they always depict him with blue squigglies and it's like, wow, how threatening. I look at this however and my immediate thought is, "New Orleans just started crying again."
Also, thank you for introducing me to the words 'alien splooge'. So many uses for that word...
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I'm really impressed, I'm usually not a fan of this character but this artwork makes me love it.
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whoops didn't see your comment NephilV lol.
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Wait a minute, I know for a fact they used tubs(and I did mean tubs not tubes) of KY Jelly for the Alien Drool in all the movies. So, are you saying...?
By and by you are still one of my favorite artists and I think your command of H2O or KY Jelly for that matter is pretty astonishing.
Please, keep it up.
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WOW! This is amazing! The water is very well done!
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I love that the manifestation is symmetrical, and Jace himself isn't. The water texture is fantastic, and the lighting really makes this piece. I also really like that you've taken the blue mage's powers outside the typical realm of mind magic!
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This is soooo much better than Igor Kieryluk's work (whom i respect very much BTW).
It just illustrates this card so ideally -
Jace, the Mind Sculptor soaring by the sheer will of his powerfull mind in a moment of perfect enlightment with the blue element dancing around.
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So. Gorgeous.
I must now get a foil one for my have collection.
Terrific work!
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Stupid auto correct *Jace
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Excelent work!!
Is this artwork on a magic card?
I don't play anymore, but I don't remember to have it ever seen before...
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Yup. It's the promo version of the card by the same name.
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Cool!!
It'd be cool to have that one!
Again, compliments for the excelent work you've done!!
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SeΓ±or, hago una obasiΓ³n, me encanta su arte, una de las razones por las que me gusta Magic.
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Also, I wanted to say that I also liked the one you did with his hood down.
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I really like what you did with this art, it really puts the blue in Jace. Me and my friends are proxying cards for Cube, would you mind if we used this art to make a full art proxy for one of our cards, we kinda like making custom card and applying them to foil blanks.
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Really nice. I love how you portrayed his element.
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Wow this is incredible (even if the actual card isn't my fav, this art is some of the best in M12). I must say Jace looks much olde here! Not his usual 18 - 20 looking self, more like late 20's or 30.
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