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How to Address When An Artist Feels Stuck and Unable to Keep Up

Ron Lemen

Although I gave myself a timed limit to this, this is my typical approach to something complex, falling into a pattern of what I would usually do when sketching on location.  It is not very exciting and is certainly not exploring the subject from a creative angle.   As artists, it can sometimes feel like the walls are closing in as new technologies and tools appear faster than we can fully understand them and feel…

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Hathor was Venus

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Grub, Storied Matriarch

Jesper Ejsing

October 13, 2025 - When I first started working for Magic in 2005 the set I worked on was Lorwyn. Now; 20 years later we return to Lorwyn and I had the great pleasure of being part of the design team for the set. One of the task I was given was to try and make the Boggarts a tiny bit more likeable. Especially the elderly female boggarts called Aunties - something like witches - had to look like size and smart and to some degree likeable in their own way. I ended up doing 2 illustrations of the same character; one where is is in her good version ( Lorwyn) and one where she is in her more sinister version ( Shadowmore). She is a potion maker and a collector of strange ingredients. I thought of old Disney…

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