![]() It’s an angel, and I love painting angels, and she’s powerful I love powerful figures, muscular figures and so, it’s a cool piece.īrown: You mentioned that you’ve painted art based upon the likeness of your wife, and your daughter, surely they must take this as an honor: what has been their response to this, and to the final product? But I love women who are powerful but still have a soft element about them, and a lot of women who have seen that piece have also been really touched by it, they like to hang it on their wall to feel empowered, like they can go take on the day. Nielsen: It is a person that I know, though I’ve never met her personally. Basandra is one of my favorites…īrown: Why that one, does it have a personal attachment for you like you mentioned, or is it something else? But there are some that I actually have in my house. You know, there’s a lot in there that’s fun for different reasons. And a lot of them have little elements, like, oh that was my daughter, or my wife, or whatever. Nielsen: I’ve done about 225 cards, for me to narrow it down to one is really difficult. It’s always an honor when I see another artist in the cosplay medium that’s created a character that I designed and painted in 2D form, and to then see it literally come to life.īrown: Do you have a favorite Magic card? I just think the visual aspect of that makes an event so much more fun. Nielsen: The cosplay aspect has been especially fun. But they enjoy the artwork, they enjoy the storylines of the characters, and maybe people are expressing their fandom through cosplay and things like that, and I wonder, are you seeing that at conventions? I’m thinking about people to don’t necessarily play the game competitively, and are not trying to win at every turn. I’m thinking about learning to actually play I’m told I can make an actual Terese Nielsen deck I think that would be a fun way to start, to just use all of my own cards.īrown: I wanted to ask you about different ways that people are enjoying the game, and this seems to be bringing different people into the fandom. Nielsen: I’ve played it three times, I’ve tried to play, so I will just say I’ve tried to learn three times and I can’t say I really play. Nielsen: When I was first assigned that, the woman who as the art director at the time, said “I think this will be a pretty good card,” and it was in the days where there wasn’t a lot of art direction, so It was going to be a spell, and it was going to be “Red Magic,” and they just said “make some kind of bad, cool-looking red magic shaman, and that was really it, the rest of it was just do whatever you want.” Subsequently, they turned it into a Blue card, so many people are like “why is it so red when it’s a Blue card?” and I’m like, “well that’s what they asked me to do.”īrown: I’m curious, do you play the game? Terese Nielsen: That is the very first one I painted, yes.īrown: Let’s talk about that first iteration of “Force of Will” because it’s been recently reprinted with updated artwork that you did as well, but I wanted to you to describe the image, because I feel like you could do it better than I could. You can keep up with Nielsen's work at her website, Jason Brown: I wanted to ask you first about one of the most iconic cards in Magic: The Gathering, " Force of Will." Is it correct that it’s the first illustration you provided for Magic? Heroes, Villains, Monsters in on display through January 29th, and features the work of three other fantasy and comic book artists as well. Her figures have a striking beauty to them, and are powerful, by way of their physicality, or perhaps with a cunning look. Nielsen is perhaps best known for her artwork in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. Terese Nielsen is among the artists who are featured in this exhibition, and she was present for the launch event in November. Heroes, Villains, Monstersis a showcase of comic book and fantasy art on display at the Crisp Museum at Southeast’s River Campus.
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