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Behold! Every single one of my hand-drawn Magic Cards!
Do they all look great? Not really! Did they save me a lot of money? You bet! And they were a lot of fun to make, too!
(A lot of the cards have artwork on one side and all the rules-text on the backside fyi)
update on the magik magic deck
finished the new mutants! check em out below. fair warning, they arent exactly the most flavourful picks, but theyre cards i wanted to play and they fight... fine. ish. i also want to do a sol ring and an arcane signet but i have no idea what to make them lmao
I haven't posted in a while cause I liked doing big posts on Tumblr. Been working on a new series of proxies using updated versions of an older frame of mine and a public-domain/stock-owned trained generator. The idea is focusing on what I am actually good at which is graphic design and art editing. Personally, I like the results. We have an Art Nouveau-inspired set, we got a Kaiju 80's anime set...
Hell we even got a set of lands inspired by the gameboy! So, this is *not* real pixel art. This is the part of the card I find interesting, the most. It is the result of a pretty complex script I wrote for Photoshop that takes a (rather poorly done) AI pixel art (in full 32 colors) that is about 8 times the size of this, uses an algorithm to try to correct for common pixel art errors, then resizes it (dithering patterned) to the right size for the GB (but a bit wider), rescales it again (NN) to 4x size, applies color filtering to the GB 4 colors, then adds in a faux pixel gird (its not perfect). I edit it before the grid for mistakes/errors. That image (below) is filtered onto the screen of the token PSD. The land as a whole was made in Illustrator, and Photoshop, and used Firefly (I have a commercial license) for the stock image pixel art.
Also doing some tokens :) Been a busy last two months of work. This shouldn't be a surprise but most AI "art" is really poorly composed and riddled with errors. A lot of them I can edit, paint over, etc, but there's a lot I simply cannot. But it is also obvious which stuff I did earlier and which I did recently; as Ive gone at it It has gotten so much easier to do larger re-paints and edits. So I'm hopeful.
Following the proxies for my latest Commander deck, here are its custom made tokens. I love drawing things that fuels my passion for my favorite game! ————————————————– Après les proxies pour mon dernier deck Commander, voici les jetons faits main dont il a besoin. J’aime beaucoup dessiner pour nourrir ma passion pour mon jeu favori !
Current WIPs
Some of the Work in Progress(es) that I am progressing work on (lol) for upcoming magic content. Much more time is spent working on the frames, layout, and UX because my time has been freed up with art editing (versus art illustration). Some proxies >:) Want to ideally do a few sets, conceptually thinking an 80s anime kaiju set (like a secret lair? I guess) and then unique "commander pack" sets that are little collections of cards (with the commander) relevant to a specific commander, like Atraxa (or Vilis is my other post). The Sheoldred here, conceptually, would be some sort of promo given out when I ship anything this year, but it's not satisfactory of a design yet for me.
Also have more tokens wrapped up, but those are less fancy aren't they?
Been using Adobe Firefly as the Art base for the card illustrations (everything besides the base art is made from scratch by me, since my focus is being a graphic designer and art director). This has been going well, but requires a lot of repainting, which at first seemed daunting, but now is getting pretty straight forward.
Some Magic proxies (and in a few cases art and designs) that I have done over the last few years. Really like making card frames. Been working away tirelessly on this, having made over 360 cards spreading over three dozen unique frames, not even including the massive amounts of tokens I have done; I'd say I might have some sort of magic focused design addiction lol. (My website has three lower-res galleries of all my magic content: over here.)
