A few months ago I was offered the opportunity to design the staff t-shirt for The Hobbit release! I relished painting some of the pivotal characters and elements of the story, and I had a lot of fun with the visual style. The stylization is inspired by Tolkien's own paintings, and I wanted it to look as though Bilbo had drawn these things in his book. Unfortunately this is a staff-only t-shirt release, and no prints will be made available either. The original painting is currently up for auction on the MTG Art Market on fb. If you're curious about the process, I was asked to design it with 2 colour printing in mind. I wanted to paint it traditionally, so I used acryla gouache to paint the graphic shapes. Shading was done using a drybrush, and the forms were cut out using white paint to create a clean edge Using blue made it easy to separate my colours once scanned in, and then my art director and the screen-printer settled on the final colour scheme. © 2026 MEE LLC. TM lic MEE to WotC LLC Shared with the permissions of Wizards of the Coast   submitted by   /u/smalyon   to   r/magicTCG [link]   [comments]