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Hi guys, first time "creating" something new.
I used the official paint brushes from GW2 to resize, blend and mix them to create this watercolor style frame.
The idea is to mix background color + text box color to do 1 or 2 colors mix, like in the example, and for 3 4 and 5 colors use the gradient background with the colors and the golden text box. The 5 Color example is the UR-Dragon, but we are free to paint it how many colors we want.
I added the geometric white frame so it feels more like a tcg card and remember something like a real painting.
For now I did the 5 colors, artifact and the 5c gradient background.
This is the first version, so don't mind lil misalignments from one card to another (specially P/T), I already fixed it on my PSD but some examples were already generated and I didn't want to remake them.
So, up until now I like this:
- the blend on brushes got really cool and the mix/match of colors ended much better than I thought without getting to confuse
- simple text makes it really clear to read
- I can use a full art on the background (ur-dragon, urza, emrakul, etc), I can use it cut inside the white frame (kinna example), I can use an art only on the top half (vivi, ob nixilis, taimi and rytlock examples) and in all modes I think it stays true to the idea and good enough for it to be used, since it's painting splashes ans brushes it doesn't really "mess" the idea of the frame.
- really simple setup that could be used for most cards (except planeswalker)
-despite being focused and inspired by Guild Wars 2, I think it has enough personality itself for it to be used in multiple ways/themes.
What I don't like, need to improve and would welcome some ideas:
- Maybe the text box is too "empty"... I tried to add a divider somewhere to separate Name from Type from Rules, but when I added some to try, I thought it got too clustered or heavy.
- I'm really not well versed on photoshop, so I have some trouble in small assets, like mana symbols, specially the phyrexian ones that are colored (like on kriik and heliod), if you guys have any symbol collection that would fit into this theme, maybe even colored ones...
For now I think that's it. Hope to receive some nice feedback!
After I think this is finished Ill share the PSD with everyone =)