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Dogs? Not slavering hounds from planes of evil and chaos - but silly ol' dogs? That's right - just when you think I'm going to go fastball high and tight, I throw a change-up and make you look silly. And what's with the baseball analogy?

Anyways, yes - dogs. A good friend wanted to get a little sumthin special for her beau so she requested a drawing of the four dogs that they share their lives with. In a very rare occurrence, I worked directly from photographs - *gasp*! - and exaggerated some of the their features ever so slightly to emphasize character.

This was a fun little side project. But don't expect a series of sketchy dog portraits now though.

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"My Wish is Your Command" is another piece for a Archenemies Magic: The Gathering card. Along with the previous post's "Fauna Shaman", this is one of the most fun pieces I have done for the acclaimed collectable card game. The drawing I am particularly fond of mainly because it took so long to get to. I must have went through a dozen or so iterations of this awkward concept before something finally clicked. Someday soon I will post to final painting but for now, enjoy the pencils!

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Leading up to GenCon, I thought I'd chuck a Magic: The Gathering drawing up on the ol' drawblog. This drawing is for "Fauna Shaman" and the finished painting (which you can see over at ROTTFACE NEWS) is one of my favorite that I have done for Magic. Yeah, you can argue that maybe it isn't my best piece - but a lot of the feelings I have for my artwork comes from how much fun I had creating it. In the case of Fauna Shaman, I had loads of fun.

In fact, I knew going in that this would be a fun painting so I made it a much bigger image than necessary. The cropline for the actual card art is roughly through the middle of Mr. Toad.

Anyway, if you're wondering what my status is for GenCon, again, go on over to ROTTFACE NEWS and waste some more time reading my writings!

SOME THINGS DON'T MAKE THE CUT

It's hard to say how many drawings are in my book AGGREGATE. On the back cover, it says "over 150". That was just a big number thrown out there because I knew it was safely over that. But honestly, I think the number is closer to 200 drawings - but that's because there are lots of little doodles and snippets included - and can I rightly count all of those as separate drawings? Probably. But it's not necessary to count every single one - the buyer of one of these books is definitely getting their money's worth if only in amount of things to look at.

But even with how many pieces got put into the book, I have a whole folder of drawings that didn't. Probably another 100 or so drawings I'd say. Picking artwork for the book was mainly about quality - but I also made cuts based on diversity. And some cuts were made, simply because the book is 80 pages long - not 81. Something had to get left behind. So this piece here was to be the drawing on the last page up until pretty late in the game when I did some reshuffling and reworking. Even though it didn't get in, I thought I'd give it an extra life here on the blog. Enjoy!

CAN YOU GET FUNGUS FROM AGGREGATE?

Are you one of the many people concerned about contracting a harmful or embarrassing fungus from handling AGGREGATE: The Art of Steve Prescott? Studies have shown that 1 out of every 245 million people will be exposed to fungus spores (known as "Myconids") - most notably on page 68 of AGGREGATE. Are you one of those people? Top scientists believe so.

If you are a hypochondriac and are very easily duped by health-related scare tactics, then you are at extremely high risk. But hope is closer than you think. In a Harvard study of 3 people that may have had a fungus problem, symptoms subsided after the purchase of a second or even third copy of AGGREGATE!

If you think you may be at risk, ask a doctor about this delightful book of pencil drawings. Or, just self-diagnose and begin your treatment today!

Contact steve at: steve2@rottface.com for more information.

ANOTHER SNIPPET FROM AGGREGATE!

Most likely for the rest of this gonna-be-crazy Summer I'm going to be posting various pencilworks that I have included in my book: AGGREGATE: The Art of Steve Prescott. I'm doing this for two reasons -

1) to promote my book which everybody should buy if only to reduce the amount of boxes taking up room in my studio!

And 2) because I'm going to be insanely busy with a wide array of projects and work for at least the next two and a half months which will make squeezing in some fresh draw-blog material difficult (but not to be completely counted out!)

Today's post is a preliminary drawing I did for a German card game called : BlueMoon. I did the entire "Buka" set which you can check out HERE.

This particular drawing became THIS PAINTING which was one of my favorites from the whole set. AGGREGATE includes a two-page spread of drawings from this project.

What is this AGGREGATE book I speak of? Go to: ROTTFACE NEWS for more info (second article down.)

AGGREGATE IS NOW READY TO BE HAD!

That's right, people! My books are finally in and ready for the purchasing! Since this is my Draw-Blog, I'll spare you most of the blather and commentary. But, if you insist on a bit more information (not to mention ORDERING information), I then send you to ROTTFACE NEWS.

For the sake of interest and for something worthy of being on my Draw-Blog, I have posted the raw image for the wrap-around cover to my book - sans type and such - as you can see. I actually did this drawing in two separate pieces and just kind of stitched it together taking advantage of the hair texture to hide the seam. The wonders of photoshop.......