Celebrating 30 years of producing beautiful fantasy art for books, record covers and card games, John Avon, best known for his landscape art from 'Magic: the Gathering', is collecting his best works a into an artbook, 'Journeys to Somewhere Else'.
The book is planned as a perfect bound, large format square hardback, and will also include developmental and working sketches, thumbnail pieces and alternative versions. The book will also be available in two editions; a standard and a deluxe edition. The basic book will contain 180 pages but if they raise enough money this could be stretched all the way up to 238 pages and the Deluxe version will be stretched from 228 pages up to a whopping 276! The deluxe version will also have more images, extra sketches and a detailed chapter on how John works.
As an exclusive to this Kickstarter project, they have also been granted permission from Wizards of the Coast to use John's artwork from 'Magic: the Gathering', at least for this first volume. Meaning this could be a one-time opportunity to possess a definitive collection of John’s work from the hugely popular trading card game.
There are of course the obligatory Kickstarter add ons and special offers, with various upgrades on offer such as signed and dedicated books, plus they will be looking to add more to the campaign as it progresses, including smaller sketch bundles (single sketches), T-shirts and playmats too.
The project will only be funded if at least £24,000 is pledged by July 20 and if successful, they are looking at a February / March 2015 release.
Check out the video below and go here for more information on the project.
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