While I wait for more Hobbit spoilers, take a look at the LOTR cards I've gotten completed so far. There are more in the Google Drive, I just picked a few favorites to share on her. Thanks for all the support.
As always, I'm happy to receive criticism and art recommendations.
Tanks for everyone's encouragement on the old school Lord of the Rings cards I've been making. I decided to take a side step away from that and do the Hobbit first. Since there are only a few cards previewed right now, it's easier to keep up with. Also because of the illustrated editions of the Hobbit, there is a wealth of art to choose from for even more niche scenes.
Thought I'd share what I have so far. There are black border and white border variants of all cards. I realized later a missed the set symbol on a few. I'm also not 100% happy with the way I treated the Adventure cards, but I really didn't feel like making custom text fields in CC. I might go with obnoxious old school 'text walls' for those.
For both HOB and LTR, there are still some big gaps in art for ultra specific things depicted in some of the cards. A lot of great old art has no high quality scans preserved online. Feel free to share resources, and general tips/advice.
Any advice on which retro frame (not necessarily limited to these 2 examples) works best for some vintage LOTR art?
I basically want to recreate the entire LTR set as if it had come out pre-2000, with vintage art.
Looking for some public input before I make a ton of cards. Also let me know if someone else has already done this exact project.
EDIT: I greatly appreciate everyone’s feedback, I’m glad there was such an interest. Some decisions I’ve made for this set: I’m making both variants (white border 4th edition & black border 7th edition frames) of all cards. I found a workflow and it takes less than 1 minute longer per card to make a second copy. Worth it since some cards just seem to pop in the white border.
I’m sticking with the creature type format “Summon Avatar Legend” etc, but I’m not expanding all of the rules text to be super long format. As old school as that would be, it’s a bit much.
Yes I’ll share a drive folder eventually. I’d love to see others print this.
Biggest struggle is actually art, surprisingly! This set has some ultra specific things. Mithril shirt for example, there is a perfect Ted Nasmith art but the only image on it appears to be a camera photo of a framed print at a 45 degree angle. Feel free to share more niche art/artists from the 80s/90s other than Nasmith, Hildebrandt, McBride, John Howe, Alan Lee.