A creature that brings despair when it hits the table but nice and simple to alter.

An anime I watched lately, after a long time, is Shingeki no Kyojin or Attack on Titan in English. I have to say that not only has intriguing story and action but also some of the most terrifying villains in all mediums. Funny thing is that these villains don't even talk, they just eat people alive...asides that they have the creepiest faces you'll see in any anime.
 Anyway, I watched all the episodes so far, read the manga and here is an alter on my favorite Titan.

I really wanted to do a fan art of Mikasa Ackerman on a forest, just to use the mana for summoning the big guy. So here it is.

And the original sketch I made on paper.

With Death Note being one of my favorite anime, it's strange I haven't done much alters themed after it. The first is one I've done recently and the other one of my very first alters.

This alter was made for an altered art contest in Mtgsalvation.com back in March. The constest's challenge was to alter a card with manga or comic style but I ended up using both styles. The manga part is based on manga version of Chandra from the Japansese Chandra vs Jace box. In the comic part with Jace. I tried to have the 80's Marvel comics look. This is the link to the contest where the alter won the first place: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=500773

One of the cards I've done many times is Birds of Paradise. Here are some of them paired with their test sketches I've made for each one.

This version is winter themed:

Another winter themed version that I rejected and was left unfinished.

A Nouveau version:

 The following two were painted on promo foils from M11:

This one was made for an altered card contest from Mtgsalvation.com. The contest's challenge was to paint a card inspired by a song, which in my case was Bird of Paradise by Snowy White. It finally won the first place :). This is the said contest http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=475538.

The reference photo I used:

 And this the song by Snowy White that inspired the card:

Since Halloween is near these are all my related alters:

 And the sketches I based them on:

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Here is another fan art group of alters I've done, this time the theme is Thundercats:

The Sword of Omen as a Jitte:

Cheetara as a Stoneforge Mystic:

Panthro on a Beast Within:

A Command Tower altered into a Cat's Lair:

Some reinforcements arriving:

Mumm-Ra as a transforming Delver of Secrets:

And a Swamp made into Mumm-Ra's pyramid:

The only sketches I've made were for Cheetara and Panthro, the rest were drawn straight on the cards.

These two Heartless Summoning are fan art themed after Kingdom Hearts with tons of Heartless. 

Version one:

And version two:

Another 4 of the first version I made for a set:

 This is the sketch for the second version before I transfer it with carbon paper on the card.All 5 cards with the first version where drawn straight on the card.

My latest attempt on creating some original art nouveau style cards:

And the sketches I made beforehand:

Being a horror movie fan I couldn't resist not to paint this group of cards.I used a still from each movie as reference.

It (1990).

Nosferatu (1922).

Sweeny Todd (2007).

The Woman in Black (2012).

Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

 The Ring (1998).