{"id":123,"date":"2012-03-15T10:20:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2012-03-15T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T22:36:01","slug":"commonality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/commonality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of Commonality"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s true in every corner of the commercial art world that if your artwork is attached to a popular product then your art is going to benefit from that association. The popularity rubs off, so to speak.<\/p>\n

It’s especially the case in Magic, and probably all collectible card games. If your art graces a hot (and most likely) rare card then you’re going to be able to sell more prints, charge more for the artist proofs and if you’re working in traditional mediums, ask a nice sum for the original art too. It’s all about demand.<\/p>\n

In CCGs the opposite is also true. If your art ends up on an unpopular card then you may never sell a single artist proof unless you find a particularly masochistic player with a strange connection to the card. Hey, it’s happened…<\/p>\n

But it goes further than that, the perceived value – that is to say the quality<\/em> – of the painting itself is changed in the minds of the card buying public. I have some early paintings that aren’t remotely close to the quality I produce today, but they’re on popular cards and I sell prints of them at every show. And I have some paintings I’m really proud of that’ll never sell a print because of where they landed, usually a junk common that no one cares about.<\/p>\n

And that’s the curse of commonality.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow (yes, really, three updates in a week!) I’ll show you one of my favorite paintings that you may never have paid any attention to as it was lost to a junk common.<\/p>\n

And as a footnote, even commons have their moment in the spotlight…
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\nImage courtesy of the fiendish Magic Cards with Googly Eyes<\/a> Tumblr where I have discovered my art is featured with frightening regularity.<\/p>\n

Man, I think the eyes totally improved the Necrogen Censer. Just look at it, it’s absolutely cute now… like some raggedy left-for-wet Pokemon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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