Johannes Voss - Magic the Gathering illustrations - writing a brief

Magic the Gathering

The following is from the card game magic the gathering and very much emphasise the type of digital art i would like to progress to. im not really even sure if it comes under art ie painting or illustration ..

the lines to me seem to be a bit blurred.

i read in Illustration by Andrew Hall that there is two types of art applied art (illustration/graphic design) and fine art.  the book contextualizes the first applied art into something that supports someones problem or product. the second is stand alone. ie you can view it as a piece of art in its own right. to me the below piece of art is both, it illustrates the card properties for the game helping to sell the cards, because its pretty, but to me i think the image stands alone as a remarkable image in its own right.

in general i love the magic the gathering art, but why i picked this image in particular is for two reasons first the colours of the wings and the glass window effect of her wings, i think i have a bit of thing for wings. and second the perspective.  i also think the values are stunning.

Brief  -create a scene of a guardian looking after a city, the scene will be focused on a winged guardian, with non typical wings. the genre is high fantasy materials used digital.

i did some research on wizards of the coasts usual briefs, they can be vague due to not wanting to pre release information.