#magic proxies

[baerthe]

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.

[corseque]

I wanted to collect all my posts about the Magic: the Gathering card that's coming out for Emet-Selch here on Tumblr for posterity

The card is written in such a lore-consistent way that it contains what I would consider to be spoilers for the story, so don't read the card until you've played the game FFXIV if you plan to play the game if you want to remain completely unspoiled.

[furious-jorg]

BLAHAJ BLAST!!

(Never let it be said that I am not an ally to the trans community)

I made this proxy of the card shark typhoon for a friend as a secret santa gift, figured I oughta post it here.

Enjoy, feel free to use, don't try to sell it or claim you made it, yada yada yada.

[xochilexart]

Finished this Avacyn! Special thanks to @votecheckbox for putting the proxy together. You can download the proxy on my Ko-fi page.

Also be sure to check out vote_checkbox's Kofi-page as well to see her awesome work!

[neonjawbone]

i make... too many edh decks... so im thinking about making a bunch of alter/proxies of staple cards, here's a little test run with everyone's favorite commander all-star

[whiteweddingparttwo]

@punkitt-is-here said they were playing Magic The Gathering, and that inspired me to make this custom token for the Witness Protection card!

[raayllum]

All I see is parts.

6x06 / 7x04

[goldstarknight]

Pixel Art Redraw of Cold-Eyed Selkie (2023)

The second MtG redraw/proxy I ever made. To this day I still like how the water animation turned out. :)

support or commission me on ko-fi

[geebiejeebies]

Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos

Another great one, another experiment with textures and color! Of course my girl Ebrietas had to be Toxrill to make her little Augur slug tokens.

[affinityforanime]

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 Once you thaw out that turkey, do you prefer roast or deep fry? 🍗 And then pumpkin pie for dessert!

[baerthe]

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.

[vizsladyke]

Btw I made the best mtg proxy ever last week

PLEASE feel free to use this and tell me how ppl react to it

[jolynegarcia]

a couple of alters for my Locked Tomb deck feat. my newest piece

[bugbearstew]

Another proxy card in the style of Keiji Kinebuchi! This time, the classic, Birds of Paradise!

[neonjawbone]

i got a chance to play my breeches list and ended up doodling him- which i then just, wanted to see as a card....

[misscryptidart]

Glascow Willy Wonka Experience scam disaster AI piece of garbage lmao moment I love you