Pedro Ferreira — credited on the cards as Pedro G. Ferreira — is a self-taught traditional illustrator based in Porto, Portugal, and one of the newest names on the Sorcery roster. He came to the project for the Gothic set, the game's second expansion, where his first card was revealed in February 2025. His route in is one of the better origin stories on the roster: he was painting an album cover for the band Primal Being's Shattered Realm when the album's producer, Yvan Yssakoff — a Sorcery player — pointed his portfolio at founder and art director Erik Olofsson. The timing was lucky. Per the Collector Arthouse interview, Ferreira had only recently moved his practice back from digital into traditional painting, so the commission landed just as he was committing to the medium that suits the game's hand-painted house style.
His grounding is European folklore and the Golden Age of Illustration. He grew up on Grimm's Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Andersen — "The Princess and the Pea" is the story he names as his first exposure to Edmund Dulac, and Dulac and Arthur Rackham sit at the front of his influences. Behind them is a deeper bench: the old masters Hieronymus Bosch, Rembrandt, and Velázquez; the 19th-century Russian realist Ilya Repin; and a run of Japanese illustrators from the 1980s–90s — Jun Suemi, Ayami Kojima, and Naoyuki Katoh. That mix of European fairy-tale illustration and Japanese fantasy art is the backbone of his look.
Style
Ferreira works in traditional paint, primarily acrylic, with watercolor and gouache in the mix. He's explicit about why acrylic is the core medium: "I've found acrylic paint to be a very good midway point between some of the qualities of oil paints and the practicality of quick drying water mediums." That practicality matters on a card-game schedule, and it shows in the finish — paint handling closer to the worked surface of oils than the flat fills of digital work.
His stated philosophy is suggestion over description. "I think art ought to imply and suggest, rather than describe in a literal manner," he told Collector Arthouse. "I want to add enough, just so that the viewer 'gets it,' but can also fill in the blanks." He frames the approach as impressionism — mood and atmosphere first, detail held back so the image breathes. On a Gothic card that reads as brooding restraint: the set's darker register suits him, but his range also leaves room for the whimsy that comes out of the fairy-tale lineage. Gift of the Frog, his first revealed card, sits on the lighter end of that range.
Cards on Sorcery
Ferreira's footprint is documented in a single set so far — Gothic — and the Collector Arthouse artist index credits him on fifteen cards there:
Apostles of Thamariel, Blade of Thorns, Darkest Dungeon, Desecrate, Estranged Loner, Fields of Phyxis, Flame Strike, Gift of the Frog, Goat for Azazel, Gravedigger, Homecoming, Hotwheel, Martyrs of Tomorrow, Molten Maar, and Myrrh's Trophy Room.
Gift of the Frog is the debut — the card Erik's Curiosa used to announce him in February 2025, revealed while the painting was still in development. Beyond the named fifteen, no Avatar credit or Curio attribution is documented for Ferreira at the time of writing; his Sorcery record to date is a Gothic-set debut, and a strong one for a first outing.
Where to see more Pedro
- Instagram — @pedrogferreira_ — the most active public stream of his work, traditional pieces and process shots.
- Tumblr — pedrogferreira — a longer-running archive of his illustration.
- His Gothic cards — the fifteen credited pieces above, searchable on Curiosa and the Corefield card database.
- Collector Arthouse — Pedro G. Ferreira — the full Sorcery card index this piece draws on.
Sources
- Welcome to Sorcery, Pedro G. Ferreira! — sorcerytcg.com — primary source for the Porto, Portugal base; self-taught traditional illustrator; Gothic debut; Gift of the Frog as first revealed card (February 2025); childhood reading of Grimm's Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Andersen; Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham as Golden Age influences
- Pedro G. Ferreira — artist page, Erik's Curiosa — primary source for the medium quote ("I've found acrylic paint to be a very good midway point…"), the acrylic/watercolor/gouache palette, and the album-cover path to the game
- Sorcery Artist Interview: Pedro G. Ferreira — Collector Arthouse — primary source for the "art ought to imply and suggest" philosophy quote, the full influence list (Bosch, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Repin, Rackham, Suemi, Kojima, Katoh), and the Primal Being Shattered Realm / Yvan Yssakoff connection to Erik Olofsson
- Pedro G. Ferreira — Collector Arthouse artist page — primary source for the Gothic-only set attribution and the fifteen-card index (Apostles of Thamariel, Blade of Thorns, Darkest Dungeon, Desecrate, Estranged Loner, Fields of Phyxis, Flame Strike, Gift of the Frog, Goat for Azazel, Gravedigger, Homecoming, Hotwheel, Martyrs of Tomorrow, Molten Maar, Myrrh's Trophy Room); the digital-to-traditional transition; Portuguese nationality
- Pedro G. Ferreira — Instagram — public portfolio link