Thassa, God of the Sea (MtG Warm Up)

I've always loved the art of Magic the Gathering, so when I joined the Magic Legends team at Cryptic I immediately started doing studies and sketches. When you switch styles project to project, it helps to do some warm up art to get in the rhythm and into that world. This is the first of those studies that I'll call "done", the rest is a pile of scribbles and half thoughts.

It's inspired by Jason Chan's illustration of Thassa, God of the Sea:
https://scryfall.com/card/ths/66/thassa-god-of-the-sea

I don't like directly copying anything. So, I treated this like a hypothetical card art assignment - taking the main themes and subjects and creating a new design from that.