A character painting for enigma530 of FA / newdarkcloud of Twitter/Bluesky! The Planeswalking detective, Enigma, is a master of manipulating the mind and senses. So much so that you might not trust your eyes if you find yourself at the end of his blade.

Woah, more Enigma! A more mature, older Enigma, on the job and ready to strike. Enigma trusted me with two mock-up Magic: The Gathering cards he wanted art for of his character as a Legendary Creature (the previous investigation piece) and a Legendary Planeswalker. For this one, I took a bit of inspiration from Tommy Arnold's painting of "Syncopate", one of my favorite MTG card arts out there. While I think I didn't get the distortion in the same way that Mr. Arnold did, I think I landed in a similarly visually satisfying area! It took a bit of extra time in the oven to get it done and clean it up a bit, trying to hit that middle ground of "readable at a small size, but somewhat jarring when viewed up close".

Enjoy, ya'll! And thank you to Enigma for trusting me yet again with your wonderful guy. Absolutely my pleasure, and had so much fun with this piece. I hope you all enjoy it just as much. Cheers!