Alberto S. Ballesteros @asbillustration Twitter profile

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

6 months

Time for a new pinned tweet! Hi! I'm an illustrator based in Edinburgh (Scotland). I work mostly digital and I love fantasy. Open for commissions! 🎨: 🖥️: 📨: alberto.s.ballesteros @gmail .com

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

5 months

It is done! Here's my fan variant for @MARVELSNAP of Venomized Jeff! I tried to make this one to go as hard as possible. What do you think? l'm posting a lot of sharks lately 😂

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 month

Baby Emrakul is ready to annihilate you with her cuteness.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

7 months

It's finally done. I still can't believe we don't have a venomized variant of Wolverine in @MARVELSNAP , so I did mine. I don't even know how many hours of work was this but they were a lot for sure. I will post close-ups tomorrow probably but in the meantime please take a look

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

3 months

I finally finished my new fan @MARVELSNAP variant! This time I went for a different symbiote (in order to show something that actually happened at some point in the comics). I put a lot of time and effort on this one, please take a look at it, and hope you enjoy it!.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

You probably forgot about these already, but I still plan to make all of them! Hopefully I'll have some more time in the following weeks to finish them.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Hear me out, Ravnica Guilds logos like they were NBA teams.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

5 months

My own personal Venomverse is taking shape

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 month

As we all know Emrakul didn't come alone, here there are her two siblings! Ulamog has been always a little troublemaker.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

Also for first time in foil I made some of these bad boys.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

4 months

My latest venomized @MARVELSNAP variant is Mr.Negative! This time it was a commission for @nornXP , thank you so much for trusting me with this job! I had a blast making it.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

6 days

At this point getting blocked by this guy for no reason seems like some sort of rite of passage. Does this mean I’m a Marvel Snap adult now?

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

6 months

These are my four @MARVELSNAP fan variants. Maybe one day I'll get to have one in the actual game! Which one is your favourite? What should I do next?

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Here’s my token for Fable of the Mirror breaker! OG Kamigawa goblins are probably my favourite mtg goblins, so I loved making this. I hope @Spice8Rack approves this content.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

6 months

Well, I finally won't have time to finish this before my holidays, but now you can have a good idea of how my venomized Jeff is going to look. #WIP

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

3 months

@phuggin_right @PleasantKenobi There you go, I also did a bunch of non-guild related ones and now from time to time I do one of the Shards (just done two at the moment).

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

And finally here’s the Golgari logo! Hope you like it and the rest of the “Ravnica League” logos. Stickers available soon 🙃

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

10 months

Finally got the time to finish my Venom illustration. I think it looks cool as @MARVELSNAP card! @seconddinner hire me! @AlexanderCoccia @ACozyGamer @dddrewsky @DekksterGaming @bootmanmstz @SiX1SE7EN would you split this one?

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Thinking about selling the original paintings of my abstract mana counters. They’re pretty small, so they’re easy to ship (cards for reference). Before I put them on Etsy, anyone interested? Of course you’ll get the mana counter for free with the painting 😂

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

11 months

Ok guys, you’ve seen mine around a million times in the last year or so, right? 😂 Anyway I was thinking on painting another otter, they’re so cute.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 months

✨1K Followers Giveaway!✨ To thank my followers I’m giving away a set of 18 tokens (8 foil and 10 non foil) to one person! To participate you just need to follow this account and like and RT this post. Winner will be picked next Tue at 5pm (UK time). Good luck!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 months

Finally I finished my latest @MARVELSNAP fan variant, and it's not a symbiote for a change! I started it over a month ago (Cull Obsidian was relevant in the meta back then 😂) but I've struggled to find the time to work on it. Anyway it's done, hope you like it!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 month

Phyrexian vs original Myr. What's your favourite?

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

@JimmyBelvins Yes, because artist are well know to swing in money. To say "fuck capitalism" doesn't mean "I want to live with the bare minimum" is to acknowledge that it's a deeply flawed system in which a bunch of people get obscenely rich exploiting the rest and the environment.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

Thalia and Gitrog (Brussels, Belgium).

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

3 months

The @MARVELSNAP band variant we need. "Just remember all caps when you spell my name". #mfdoom

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

4 months

Well, well, well, look what just arrived 👀

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

3 months

I’m Alberto from Spain and this is my art.

Paul Scott Canavan

@abigbat

3 months

I’m Paul from Scotland and this is my art

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Wow I’m always surprised about how expensive some tokens could be. Anyway if you want a funnier version let me know (you could even get a foil, borderless one!).

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

26 days

It's my birthday and I heard because of that I can ask you to share my work today. Pleeease? 😊

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

7 months

I'm blown away by the attention this piece has gotten! Thank you so much for all your kind words and for tagging so many times @seconddinner and @MARVELSNAP asking for this illustration to be on the game. Unfortunately it doesn't look like it's going to happen 😂.

Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

7 months

It's finally done. I still can't believe we don't have a venomized variant of Wolverine in @MARVELSNAP , so I did mine. I don't even know how many hours of work was this but they were a lot for sure. I will post close-ups tomorrow probably but in the meantime please take a look

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

Second Phyrexian token. Is there any other Phyrexian token spoiled yet?

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

@PetrKikac Love to see Colossal Dreadmaw in the "staples" section.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

I'm excited to show you my first Power 9 proxy. I really tried my best for this one, and will continue doing so for the rest of the series. Hopefully it's worth it and you like the result! Also, I thought this mox should be in possession of goblins :P

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

My Marvel Snap inspired #MTG tokens have arrived! These won’t be on sale on Etsy but you are interested on any of them just drop me a message!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

7 months

With all the excitement forgot to post a close up picture of the Venomized Wolverine. Here's one where you can see the face and shoulders with more detail.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 month

This was a token long overdue. For this one I tried to capture the feeling of classic Mirrodin (they ended up hiding behind the frame, but there are two of the five suns in the painting).

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

"Capricious Sorcerer". This is my first illustration under the mentorship of @abigbat . It has been really challenging but safe to say that I've never learnt so much in a single painting. It was an absolute pleasure and I'm looking forward to continue this mentorship!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

5 months

@golgariguy @wizards_magic Well, that's exactly what we thought was going to happen. Just another shitty decision from WOTC. It would help if they start doing second batches of sold out products, but I doubt it.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Here's my proxy for Mox Sapphire. Merfolk was an obvious choice for this one. That makes a third of the Power 9 done, I'll get there eventually 😂

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

8 months

@SaffronOlive POV: You're playing a game of MTG in 2023.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Back to #studybuddies ! I Focused too much on the clothes so the background is a big mess as usual. 2h-ish as always.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Well, that's an evil-looking mox...

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

4 months

I finally got some time to do a frame for my artifact tokens, inspired by the etherium. Of course the first ones to receive this treatment had to be the Wurmcoil Engine tokens. Hope you like it!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

@Kesswylie And within two weeks from release half of them will cost less than a pack.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

3 months

Since I shared my Ravnica logos kind of casually commenting in one of @PleasantKenobi 's post and many people discovered them there I thought it'd be a good time to share every MTG fake logo I've done. I should finish at least the shards! Which one is your favourite?

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

I finally con show this commission I did a few months ago. The idea was to paint all the basic lands with an otter mixed with a creature type related with that color. I had a blast with this gig! Here’s the first one: Angel Otter.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

4 months

Look at this animated version of my venomized Jeff that @michael_calcada did! I love how Jeff seems to be swimming. Checkout his profile, he does a lot of cool Marvel Snap concept videos.

Michael Calcada Designs

@michael_calcada

4 months

I collaborated with @asbillustration on this @MARVELSNAP Venomized Jeff Variant! Would love to see his artwork in game!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 months

I finally got a golden split for Hulkbuster! (Thanks to the new free boosters feature). Just on time for WhiteWidow week 👀 (I’d probably swap Zola for Lady Deathstrike, but the deck looks so pretty like this). @SnapVariants

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

It's finally done! My Black Lotus proxy. Considering what this card represents it was a bit intimidating for me to make it, so I really wanted to make it the best way I could. I put a lot of time and effort on this, hope you like it! (and share it, if you do so).

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

29 days

Well, I didn't expect that my cute eldrazis to become that popular, thank you! I actually did them because I was making the last of the token frames and thought that it'd be funny but I guess now I need to do the two versions of each token right?

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

@Mengu09 Omg and Izzet Charm!!!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

8 months

🚨 Giveaway alert! 🚨 As I reached 2k sales in my Etsy shop: I'm giving away this set of 15 tokens to one person! To enter you just need to: 1- Like and share this post. 2- Follow this account. I'll draw the winner on 10/11/23. Good luck!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

Here's the full illustration of my Mox Emerald and a close up. I will take a little break until I continue with my Power9 proxies, but I'm happy that at least these first 5 are done. #MTG

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

27 days

And here's the last Myr token! This might be my favourite one of the bunch. It's also my first token with the colored artifact frame 🙃

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

4 months

Venomized variants is not the only Marvel fanart I've done. Here's a few I did last year in a different style.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

@HexproofHarry @RhysticStudies has a whole video about it! highly recommended as any of his videos.

The Great Wave off Dominaria | The Story of a Timeless Woodblock Print

This video is about an illustrator's allusion to a timeless painting and the magic of ukiyo-e woodblock prints.🎥 Support:Become a Patron: http://www.patreo...

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

Can’t believe 2022 is almost over. This was a challenging year for me but I’m hoping for a great 2023. Here there are some of my favourite works from this year.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

For an Aristocrats deck what would you build? Teysa, Orzhov Scion or Yawgmoth? Feel free to give me your reasons, and also if anyone has a nice Yawgmoth list (Aristocrats or not) I'd like to see it 👀

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

3 years

@CubeApril Possibly one of my favourite comic pages.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

#StudyBuddies ! This time I tried to paint Keanu Reeves. 2h-ish study, lots of fun.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Just got the @RobotGnomes internet browser proxies and they’re just so cool! He also added his lovely command tower, thank you so much!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Here's a closer look at the commission for @TheKristenEmily I'm currently open for more commissions, so if you want your own token, an illustration for your DnD character or any other thing please DM me and we can have a chat about it :)

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Keeping on with the cat and fantasy theme, a couple of years ago I did a series of cats as fantasy classes, thinking about making some board game with them that of course never happened.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

4 months

“You upgraded Death 74 times and yet you still don’t have a gold split for her”

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 months

Painted Legions gave me this lovely frame and I knew immediately which card I’ll use it for 🖤💚

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Just arrived home to find this 🤩 Better pictures etc etc soon but I couldn’t wait!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 month

I always loved Phyrexia (and I'm still mad about how they were handled in MoM) but I have to admit that I felt bad for the Myrs, guess I have a soft spot for them. Anyway here's the Phyrexian version of the Myr token, hope you like this one too, he's just been through a lot.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

28 days

Hi! I'm Alberto and I love to paint fantasy and superhero stuff.

Vanette Kosman | Clayscence

@clayscence

29 days

Hi! I'm Vanette, I draw fantasy sexy ladies and sometimes sexy bois

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

@ghirapurigears I completed the cycle for casual play. They require a strong rule 0 discussion of course haha

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Greatness at any cost, right? That's my 4th Power 9 proxy, and probably my last illustration of the year! Can't believe 2022 it's almost over.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

Thinking about the tokens for #MTGONE I thought about making all the Phyrexians as the second series of XCIX Demons tokens. Thoughts?

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

@SonRebell It doesn't really matter how awesome is the experience of opening packs when the packs are so expensive that many (most) of us can't afford them, especially knowing it's more than likely that we'll open just worthless crap. I'm just tired of "not for me" products.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

6 months

"New" Shark tokens incoming!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

A bunch of my @AlterSleeves just dropped!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Tried something different for the Angel token. I think I like it? I may try to do some more in this style.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

3 months

@PleasantKenobi Well, when I did my series of "Guild logos as they were NBA teams" I picked it as their pet. I love OG Ravnica era.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

My first foil tokens/proxies have just arrived! I’m SO happy! More pics/videos soon!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

So shiny!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

@SaffronOlive You can always use all your mana to cast Manamorphose, draw tons of cards and get tons of mana to cast them.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

5 months

Since I got quite a bunch of new followers in the last few days just wanted to say hello! I'm a Scotland based illustrator, I mostly post about my work here (and some Marvel Snap stuff from time to time). These are some of my favourite kind of recent works, hope you like them!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 month

New prints looking good!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

Got all the basics for the Yawgmoth deck. I’m not used to monocolor decks 😅

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

The complete set!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

@_Dominik_Mayer_ A couple I did recently.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

@michaelkatchan @PleasantKenobi The whole “destroy artificial stuff, return to nature” made so much sense thematically. I can buy enchantments as manifestation of nature’s magic, but artefacts don’t make any sense.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

Second one of the series, I already showed the painted (almost done) but we have to follow an order right?

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

I ran out of Poison Counters, so I decided to make a new one to match the aesthetic of my other Phyrexian tokens. #MTGMOM

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

First time joining #studybuddies ! It was about dinosaurs so I had the perfect excuse. Not sure what I was doing but it was a fun couple of hours (also fuck those gallimimus in the background).

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

I had a lot of fun doing these fake team logos. Maybe it's time to make some more. What would you like to see? #MTG

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

7 months

@golgariguy Old border, why is this a question?

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@asbillustration

2 years

@TolarianCollege “Destroy target MH permanent” would become Modern’s strongest removal.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

2 years

New Pinned tweet! Hi! I'm a freelance illustrator based in Edinburgh. I make custom MTG tokens and love painting fantasy stuff in general. Open for commissions!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

I'm slowly giving all my proxies borderless treatment. Since fetchlands are next I thought on sharing again some of my favourite illustrations for them. I painted all of these and the end of 2021/beginning of 2022. Can't believe it's been over a year already.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

Here's the full illustration for my Black Lotus, with a close up of the Lotus itself and another one of the background only (same one I posted a few days ago). I usually struggle to make high contrasts in my illustrations, so this was defo a challenge for me. Hope you like it!

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

Latest additions to my Phyrexian collection. We’ll see if I can keep up with the new set, but for this brief moment it’s compleated.

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

1 year

So here's the Phyrexian Golem token! It looked like the third option was the most popular one, thank you so much for your input! #MTGONE

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Alberto S. Ballesteros

@asbillustration

3 months

Thank so much for all the comments on my Carnage Surfer, I'm really happy you liked so much! Anyway here's some crops from the painting in case you wanted to see some more details 🙂