r/customtradingcard

Hi Reddit! I’m Feli, I’ve worked professionally in several industries as a concept artist throughout my career. Thought I’d share something that still hurts a lot to this day, but was nice while it lasted. During late 2024/early 2025, I was working as a contractor for a company that worked as a third-party product creator for certain official brands and got to create concepts for a whole bunch of stuff, including Sanrio, Marvel, some Netflix series like Wednesday and Stranger Things, Minecraft, Sonic, Disney, and my ultimate favorite: Pokémon Company Intl. Before I joined the studio, Pokémon only allowed the team to create Pokéball lamps, no characters allowed. After a meeting with our Pokémon representative in which I illustrated some light up statues of Sabrina, Mailman Dragonite and Celebi for the upcoming pitch (can’t post those because of NDAs, sadly) , apparently the meeting went so well that we were immediately greenlit to start making Pokémon character statues (among other awesome concepts my colleagues came up with for other types of product) and I was assigned to doing Pokémon character statues specifically and exclusively. It was one of the happiest moments of my life, a dream come true being a lifelong Pokémon fan myself, and so I got straight to drawing.

I wanted to take the statue concepts to the next level, and so I came up with some card holder concepts to display cards, and I wanted the statues to match the cards as a theme, so I went ahead and illustrated some card art to go along with them, even if TCG wasn’t my area.

Unfortunately two weeks after I got the best news and gig of my life, the tariffs hit the toy industry and it pretty much wrecked everything. I was let go and out of a job without even being able to present the concepts above to Pokémon because of how sudden it all was.

To this day, I’m gutted, but I hope some of you can enjoy these nonetheless.

Since the Charmander (SVP), Bulbasaur and Squirtle (SCR) full arts with the Pidgeys in the background are so expensive, I made my own version of it.
No starters. No money. Only Pidgey 🐤

I'm trying to create a special and unusual illustration of Swampert. My style inspirations are Sowsow and Akira Egawa.

I would like to know your opinion on my style and art advice. :3

After all Eeveevolution, Nicola has designed this Eevee, One of his best creation! Again UV Printed, Eufy

I used:

- Pokémon card maker
- Procreate
- glossy sticker paper
- an Epson EcoTank 2876 printer

This was just a test, and I already love it!

I printed these cards on sticker paper, cut them out, and stuck them onto loose cards.

I really like them, but I'm still having a few problems: the text seems too thick, the resolution isn't perfect (but it's still acceptable), the colors aren't quite the same as the originals, and I'm having trouble cutting and sticking the cards neatly (some are quite damaged).
Also, I couldn't find a good website for creating cards in French, so I stuck with English.

I'm sure I'll improve with time. Feel free to give me advice or point out any mistakes.

(The drawings are all original creations; they are old drawings that I used for this test.)

Happy 4th of July! 🎆🇺🇸

Turned out awesome! Used a Moltres EX rainbow rare card from tcg pocket.

Our newest custom card for Pikachu! Do you guys like this?

Custom Meowth IR

I’ve been dying to find a way to combine some of my favorite themes in Yugioh and I’d love to find someone here to commission to try and bring that to a reality. I’m hoping to find someone that can capture that same style that the cards have if possible as well.

The card I’m hoping to have made is basically an upgraded version of Dragunity Arma Leyvaten (the first image) but in the D/D/D theme - as that was always my favorite card growing up, and my current favorite archetype to play.

Not sure how much money I should expect to pay, but I am willing to pay a good amount for something worthwhile

(Also if this wasn’t the best place to post this, I do apologize)

First time trying my hand at cross stitching on cards, I think it turned out pretty good

Was playing around with AI, inspired from the exclusive Chinese Mew promo. I'm going to print this with my eufymake e1 with a texture.

Question, any ideas or suggestions for the texture?

Why did I make this card?

1. Shellos is one of my top 50 pokemon
2. It doesn’t have an official full art card
3. I love snow cards

Got the inspiration of lilo and stitch

Naughty fuecoco stealing apples.

Hello or Welcome Back! Here is the next finished card for the

Megadex Art Project.

Sorry for the wait. I spent a week in a wrist brace cuz of 3 hairline fractures on my wrist but we're back at it.

This card is a regular Clefable, NOT a Mega Clefable. Mega Clefable already has an SIR.

Who would vou like to see next..... (Kanto Onlv for this set

Notice: I own the artwork only not the pokemon or the card

layout! For those wondering about the set letters, they stand

for Fake Kanto Promo as this first "set" is Kanto only.

This post is just to share my artwork and my project progress!