Just stumbled upon your channel and learned you had passed. Was typing a message to reach out about how awesome your work is and wanting to collaborate on a project I'm working on called WEFA. I know I didn't know you but I just wanted to let you know how good it felt watching you create and If I bring WEFA into the world I dedicate a piece to you. ❣
Ii really love her creative art style and I enjoy watching her and waffles they boy make me wanna draw more but I end up watching the videos instead and for get to draw.
This is something we all wondered about! Thanks for this video it was super helpful. Looking forward to make my own trading cards with my OCs. It will be so cool if I can create a whole beautiful pack of them with my own characters
I remember when I was younger everytime I'd go to Walmart I'd get a pack of Bella Sara cards, and on Christmas I got a special pack (I was so damn excited), I had a huge binder that I'd put my Pokemon cards and Bella Sara cards in and I'd tote it around everywhere
I think its really cool you're so willing to share how you do the nitty gritty stuff, it's so sweet of you to want to inspire people to do their own versions! A lot of artists are... secretive about their process
I stumbled across this video because I want to make my own cards. It's pretty amazing to be able to help fellow artists even when you've passed on. Thank you for the vid and rest in peace.
That was a wonderful demonstration of how to make cards. I am messing around with the mechanics of a card game. I make cards by using pencil and colored pencil on index cards. The quality isn't very good. Howeer the cards are usable. It is good for playtesting. Once I figured out the mechanics, I can make nicer pictures with higher quality. Maybe I can even get them printed out. There is no sense in spending a lot of effort making a card pretty if it just won't work very well in game. It seems that mechanics is king in a card game.. The most daunting thing about making art for cards is the huge scale involved. I can make an amazing painting in Krita with realistic rendering. I get into shading and texture. However the downside is that it is very time consuming. It takes me a few hours to do a single picture. I am okay with doing it. I can focus for long periods of time. Having a wonderful artpeice at the end is so worth it. However doing this for a card game would be very difficult to do. Card games require a lot of cards. Each card has its own picture. So doing a lot of pictures starts to be come ovwerwhelming. Doing a large collection of pictures in general is overwhelming. It is okay to have twenty pictures or so. However if hundreds of pictures are needed, then it starts to be a problem. Big trading card games solve this problem by hiring a whole team of artists to do the art. More artists can do more pictures in a timely manner. For example Magic the Gathering cards look amazing. THe pictures are rendered so well and so realisticly. Wizards of the Coast pulls this off by hiring a bunch of artists do do the pictures for it. I can't afford this now. I don't have any income coming in at all. I like the picture done in this video. The dream weaver is so cute and pretty. The picture is so flat, but it still looks great. The character esign is good, and that is the part that really counts. I looked carefully, and I see that the picutre is cell shaded. That is a good way to go, if one is startng out, and they have to do all the pictures themselves. Having a two dimensional picture is easier and faster than a rully rendered three dimentional picture. It still acceptable. Heck some people out there are huge fans of 2D anamation and the decry the switch of animated movies into CG. Cell shading provides some three dimentional depth to the picture. However it is not as realistic as the full blown shading that is in images like CG animation and Magic the Gathering Cards. So this is a place where I can cut corners. If I do cell shading, I can finish pictures fast. Then I can churn out a lot more pictures to accomodate the needs of a card game.
OMG, this tutorial is something I've waited for someone to make! Bella Sara was my addiction when i was younger. I loved it so much! AHHHHHH! thank you for inspiring me again on this project!
1:45 I've never heard someone say and not spell out 'AKA' I'm in Northern US. I'm curious which way is most popular. I guess it's just not used much in speech and more so in literature. It's so interesting how language differs in various regions. I loved this tutorial I really want to make my own cards now ^-^
@@DinaNorlund I love it! I really appreciate your videos :) Thanks for sharing your artwork and taking the time to teach your process. Your work is really inspiring :)
Love love LOVED this!! (Side note, if you're on a Mac you can use "screen record" with Quicktime to capture your computer a lil better. Hope that helps!) But this was amazing to watch!
Yesss Bella Saraaa I never collected Pokémon cards but I was obsessed with Bella Sara lol and how you could take care of the horses on the website skdjs I still have mine
I think you would be extremely pleased to know that this is the first video of yours I’m watching and I’m watching it because I miss Bella Sara cards and I’m toying with the idea of making something similar XD
Amazing!!! The most entertained I’ve been with digital drawing EVER!! It still feels like your drawing. You know? ❤️thanks for that. All seems effortless when making the cards. but I’m sure it is SUPER DIFFICULT 😊 Thanks I wish I can afford to be a patron 😊. One day. Thank you. ❤️
So, I have literally no idea why this was recommended to me as I have never watched anything by you before, nor have I engaged with much related to this channel, but... This video (and art) is dope and you're an adorable person, so consider me interested. :D
Been wanting to make my childhood dream of making a monster TCG and found this video. I am so saddened to hear that the creator of this video passed on to the next realm. As another female who loves monsters and fantasy, I was hoping to befriend and network with Dina. I bet she was an amazing person. So imaginative and creative and very kind to produce this how-to for all of us to see. Thank you.🙏🏼 ☁️🌌🌒🌕🌘🌌☁️
Thank you for this video...I was wanting to make my card game but I have nothing to do but when I seen this video... I felt like I can do this and with the music...I want to do it even more ... Again thank you ☺️
I'm painting a deck of poker cards right now and it's insanely much fun but lots of work.. Everything traditionally (sketch witch pencil, lineart and then watercolor). Interesting to see how you're doing your cards. Love your vids and your sweet personality! Greetings from Germany :)
I have a question, sorry if it's stupid! At 6:00, when drawing the boxes, how do you make sure that the box is symmetrical, as in the left and right sides of the box is equal? I've been trying to figure it out on Procreate using the 2d grid drawing guide, just trying to line up the rectangle with the grid, but I'm sure there's an easier way to do this? D:
As soon as I feel ready for such investments I'm definitely gonna do them! Thank you so much for showing^^ Btw are there also other side's or shops you would recommend for these kind of things ?
Thank you for sharing this. I'm not familiar with your work and yet immediately felt inspired and bewildered when I looked at these cards you so effortfully create for your Patreons. I simply had an idea in mind which required making custom cards and wanted to see what options were out there. You delivered in spades and diamonds Dina. Stay you! Connor from Aus 🦘🎹
I've been making creature cards for my patrons too, it's a great reward. Mine are a bit more like postcard prints though (pretty much the smallest I could get without them being a business card) and I have been considering converting to a more standard trading card size. I do love that pokemon card feel.
From an illustration background, I can say that it’s very common in most styles to use a hue to do shading and highlighting. She makes a lot of use of very vibrant colors, so purple is a good choice for shading. Since red is a warm color and blue is cool, she can adjust the hue to compliment the base color - if she were doing an icy snow man for example, a very deep blue purple will contrast the cooler colors and make it feel out of atmospheric ambient light, and using a warmer pink or ashy rose for highlights will make it very bright and cheery. Conversely, if it were a snow man at night, a mid value cyan blue highlight with a very warm red purple will keep the piece feeling cold over all but deepen the shadows with out changing the value of the white shapes too much. Hope this helps!
Ooooh bellasara was my childhood! Fiona was my favorite card, I think I still have her... I remember being on the website for hours just caring for all the horses from the cards
I just found your channel within the last few days and have been enjoying watching you create your creatures! I've been thinking about what animals to offer for your creature jar. I have a Poodle, if you want to add one of those, but I wanted to think of something particularly special. I just ran across an idea on Pinterest. Do you have a chinchilla? They just seem so... Perfect! For creating a magical creature for the collection.
Found it today. Amazing video and very helpfull. I'm going to buy an ipad by the end of the year and was planning on doing a card game. You helped me a loooooooot \o/
Hope I'm not just repeating somebody else but I noticed when you set up your procreate file at that point you should choose CYMK color instead of RGB because you're going to end up printing it and printers use CYMK, whereas RGB is exclusively for digital purposes such as online or in an app or something anything that's going to be rendered on your device only, and so when you convert it to CYMK from RGB or when they do to make it compatible with their printers is going to change the color slightly. I wonder if you notice when you get your cards back that it looks a little different than it does on your screen so that is probably why. Similarly when you're using your color picker for anything with print make sure you're in CYMK. Cheers!
It completely depends who will be printing it. Most of these general consumer print services actually refuse CMYK, because the process they've established assumes the regular customer doesn't know how to set up a print-ready file, thus the print service does the conversion. Similarly, if you print at home like me, there's virtually no reason at all to use a CMYK profile. Even though my inkjet printer has individual CMYK inks, the software is designed to accept and convert RGB. I've tried printing with CMYK profiles at the advice of others (similar to your comment), and it always comes out awful looking.
5:00 OMFG I LOVE YOU !!! I (my parents *cough*) spend so much monez into Bella sara's card xDD !! Also It because of them I started drawings something else than pokemon... I was 10, i'm 21 now
if you vector it u wont haave to worry about the size u can maker it any size after its vecotrized and u wont have to zoom out u can make it huge then when done u can make it a smaller size never loosing any details
Im gonna find these helpful. Im also wanting to make a tcg ever since playing pokemon, mtg, and cardfight vanguard. I took abm to help me with the business lol and still planning what the mechanics will be
Really awesome and informative! At 14:15 you got me thinking though. Something MtG, and probably some others, does that I like, are "full art" cards. But it's usually not so simple as it just filling the entire card with the illustration, sometimes it's just that the text area is a bit transparent, probably at 60% opacity or something. Would clipping masks like you use here work for something like that? Or would you instead have the borders and things be layers above with holes in them (where you "look through" to see the art)?
Just a tip as Im someone that is studying graphic design: Converting your photos and artworks before you put them into a layout is very important. I assume that this website uses digital printers and no offset printers but you gotta pay attention to things like these. Otherwise your quality can lack simply because you didnt check everything properly. Ive had that issue before and let me tell you: IT IS FRUSTRATING. Getting a decent color profile to change your artwork into befor printing it and putting it into a layout is very very important. While a lot of times, esp. with saturated ocolors you dont see to harsh of a difference the more pastel you go the bigger the difference is in print (this happens mostly with mixed tones). You should always even while editing stuff like this have a (more or less) clear look at the end result. Thus changing your photos is key. Plus offset printer (which most online printing services dont use but as i mentioned be aware and check that stuff) have trouble reading rgb files incooperated into a pdf file (even if its converted with indesign it can be troublesome sometimes).
Hello, could you please tell me which brushes you use in procreate (to sketch, the line art, and the first colour) ? I'm a beginner... Thank you, the video was fun to watch !
Funny thing is you overlooked something when it comes to card sizes, sleeves and binder sheets. Pokemon and other games have a specific size for the reason of products that support them, if the card is too small, it'll fall out, and if it's too big it just won't fit. Just thought it was important to point this out.
Just stumbled upon your channel and learned you had passed. Was typing a message to reach out about how awesome your work is and wanting to collaborate on a project I'm working on called WEFA. I know I didn't know you but I just wanted to let you know how good it felt watching you create and If I bring WEFA into the world I dedicate a piece to you. ❣
Is the game about wind earth fire air
@@VoidR3X_Gaming Water Earth Fire Air
Sometimes your videos pop up in my feed after I’ve looked up an art tip and it always brings me such joy. Rest in Peace.💕
Me: Dina is one of the best artists out there because of her talent and sweet personality.
My family trying to eat dinner peacefully: ¬.¬ ...
Haha your poor family xD
Ii really love her creative art style and I enjoy watching her and waffles they boy make me wanna draw more but I end up watching the videos instead and for get to draw.
Maddy Nielsen you should watch their “draw with me” vids and draw along with them at the same time :D
@@kali8921 I do but I get lost ND watch them draw instead
Maddy Nielsen ahahah same honestly 😹 my eyes get stuck on their beautiful art instead of concentrating on my own
This is something we all wondered about!
Thanks for this video it was super helpful.
Looking forward to make my own trading cards with my OCs. It will be so cool if I can create a whole beautiful pack of them with my own characters
Yay thank you!! :D
Hi there J ^-^
Funny enough i had the exact same idea! XD
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Good luck on your journey with making trading cards! If you're not familiar with how to take care of them after they're made check out my comment!
BELLA SARA WAS AMAZING Y E S
It was my childhood too!!!
Babbles Babbles what is Bella sara?
I still have little bella sara horse plushies that came with cards ♥️
I remember playing it online cuz they didn’t have the cards in my country 😆
I remember when I was younger everytime I'd go to Walmart I'd get a pack of Bella Sara cards, and on Christmas I got a special pack (I was so damn excited), I had a huge binder that I'd put my Pokemon cards and Bella Sara cards in and I'd tote it around everywhere
I think its really cool you're so willing to share how you do the nitty gritty stuff, it's so sweet of you to want to inspire people to do their own versions! A lot of artists are... secretive about their process
I don't know if you've mentioned already, but at some point, will you sell a whole pack of creature cards?
I would love to know this also. These are amazing!
That would be so cool! I want to buy it!!
Yeah! I’ve only had Pokémon cards before so it would be nice to have another type of trading cards 🎴
rest in peace
Wait what?
@@orionpaxx9236 shes dead
What??😢😢😢
@@Godrulesall316how did she die?
@@cadewurschmidt1279cancer
I love your art sooo much!!! I really like your random creature designs, those are always really fun and relaxing to watch.
I stumbled across this video because I want to make my own cards. It's pretty amazing to be able to help fellow artists even when you've passed on. Thank you for the vid and rest in peace.
OMG Bella Sara was my life! I used to have soo many cards! I also used to play the game online, i was soo obsessed with it!
Me too! I remember how many magazines and figures i have!
May her soul Rest in Peace. I just found this video while searching for "How to make own Trading cards"
That was a wonderful demonstration of how to make cards. I am messing around with the mechanics of a card game. I make cards by using pencil and colored pencil on index cards. The quality isn't very good. Howeer the cards are usable. It is good for playtesting. Once I figured out the mechanics, I can make nicer pictures with higher quality. Maybe I can even get them printed out. There is no sense in spending a lot of effort making a card pretty if it just won't work very well in game. It seems that mechanics is king in a card game..
The most daunting thing about making art for cards is the huge scale involved. I can make an amazing painting in Krita with realistic rendering. I get into shading and texture. However the downside is that it is very time consuming. It takes me a few hours to do a single picture. I am okay with doing it. I can focus for long periods of time. Having a wonderful artpeice at the end is so worth it. However doing this for a card game would be very difficult to do. Card games require a lot of cards. Each card has its own picture. So doing a lot of pictures starts to be come ovwerwhelming. Doing a large collection of pictures in general is overwhelming. It is okay to have twenty pictures or so. However if hundreds of pictures are needed, then it starts to be a problem. Big trading card games solve this problem by hiring a whole team of artists to do the art. More artists can do more pictures in a timely manner. For example Magic the Gathering cards look amazing. THe pictures are rendered so well and so realisticly. Wizards of the Coast pulls this off by hiring a bunch of artists do do the pictures for it. I can't afford this now. I don't have any income coming in at all.
I like the picture done in this video. The dream weaver is so cute and pretty. The picture is so flat, but it still looks great. The character esign is good, and that is the part that really counts. I looked carefully, and I see that the picutre is cell shaded. That is a good way to go, if one is startng out, and they have to do all the pictures themselves. Having a two dimensional picture is easier and faster than a rully rendered three dimentional picture. It still acceptable. Heck some people out there are huge fans of 2D anamation and the decry the switch of animated movies into CG. Cell shading provides some three dimentional depth to the picture. However it is not as realistic as the full blown shading that is in images like CG animation and Magic the Gathering Cards. So this is a place where I can cut corners. If I do cell shading, I can finish pictures fast. Then I can churn out a lot more pictures to accomodate the needs of a card game.
Every time I watch this intro... my heart warms up. It just looks so peaceful ♡
This is great! So good to see that some big youtube channels are looking to make Trading card games! Very exciting Dina! Thanks for doing this!!!
I agree!
OMG, this tutorial is something I've waited for someone to make! Bella Sara was my addiction when i was younger. I loved it so much! AHHHHHH! thank you for inspiring me again on this project!
I'm doing my own TCG and this video is awesome.
I am not sure how I came across this but absolutely phenominal!!!!! Very talented young lady, Pokemon needs to hire you!!!
It’s always a good day when Dina uploads. Thanks for explaining your process!
FINALLY! :D A new video and with a so interesting topic (I love everything you do and you are great
Thank you!! :D
Jonathan YT *with such an interesting topic
Just wanted to say that I love your artwork, Dina! Your a major inspiration to me and your creature designs are the best!
The second, third, and Re-Designed card are my favorites so far!!! Of course everything you make is amazing and inspiring as always
1:45 I've never heard someone say and not spell out 'AKA' I'm in Northern US. I'm curious which way is most popular. I guess it's just not used much in speech and more so in literature. It's so interesting how language differs in various regions. I loved this tutorial I really want to make my own cards now ^-^
Omg I think it’s a Norwegian thing maybe! Both me and my family say AKA haha xD
@@DinaNorlund I love it! I really appreciate your videos :) Thanks for sharing your artwork and taking the time to teach your process. Your work is really inspiring :)
We say it like that in Sweden too (:
I've heard some french people abreviate it to AKA just because spelling it in French sounds relatively similar to just reading it as it is.
Yes! I love Bella Sara I collected so much when I was younger. I still have them. I was so mad when I no longer found them in Wal-Mart
Love love LOVED this!! (Side note, if you're on a Mac you can use "screen record" with Quicktime to capture your computer a lil better. Hope that helps!) But this was amazing to watch!
Yesss Bella Saraaa I never collected Pokémon cards but I was obsessed with Bella Sara lol and how you could take care of the horses on the website skdjs I still have mine
I gotta step my out of my hood zone to tell you, your voice is soothing and relaxing
I think you would be extremely pleased to know that this is the first video of yours I’m watching and I’m watching it because I miss Bella Sara cards and I’m toying with the idea of making something similar XD
Amazing!!!
The most entertained I’ve been with digital drawing EVER!!
It still feels like your drawing. You know? ❤️thanks for that.
All seems effortless when making the cards. but I’m sure it is SUPER DIFFICULT 😊
Thanks I wish I can afford to be a patron 😊. One day. Thank you. ❤️
So, I have literally no idea why this was recommended to me as I have never watched anything by you before, nor have I engaged with much related to this channel, but...
This video (and art) is dope and you're an adorable person, so consider me interested. :D
omg Bella Sara!! I used to love it when I was a child QwQ I still have 3 album full of cards TwT💕
Your art style is ADORABLE.
This looks so fun! thank you for sharing. Your creature designs are always so interesting and inspiring!
Finally I can make custom character cards to trade with my friends who don't exist 😌 I'm gonna buy a printer one day, I'll put this on my to-do list
I absolutely love the design you have on your cards. Very exquisite and beautiful.
this is so satisfying to watch!
Love the dream weaver. Would also love a dark dream caster, same but black and orange. Thanks for the how to.
I'm trying to make a card game for the library I work at and this was super helpful, thank you so much!
Such an amazing video. I have been having the hardest time trying to make a vintage styled trading card for my page and this video def helped.
Been wanting to make my childhood dream of making a monster TCG and found this video.
I am so saddened to hear that the creator of this video passed on to the next realm.
As another female who loves monsters and fantasy, I was hoping to befriend and network with Dina. I bet she was an amazing person.
So imaginative and creative and very kind to produce this how-to for all of us to see. Thank you.🙏🏼
☁️🌌🌒🌕🌘🌌☁️
This was unbelievably cute and fun to watch as well as super helpful! Thank you so much
Thank you!! So happy you enjoyed it :D
Omg your so good a wish I could have one of ur monster card things cus they look so cool
This was great! So much info and the cute creature you made for the vid quite pops against the card! Super fun! Thanks for the guide! ♥️
Oh my god yes Bella Sara! That was all me and my friends did😂🥰 And the website!!
this video gave me lots of inspiration! thankyouu!
yay now we know! super interesting,, and they look wonderful!♥♥ You are doing amazing Dina!
Thank you for this video...I was wanting to make my card game but I have nothing to do but when I seen this video... I felt like I can do this and with the music...I want to do it even more ... Again thank you ☺️
I'm painting a deck of poker cards right now and it's insanely much fun but lots of work.. Everything traditionally (sketch witch pencil, lineart and then watercolor). Interesting to see how you're doing your cards. Love your vids and your sweet personality! Greetings from Germany :)
These trading cards you made are beautiful 😍😍😍😍
I have a question, sorry if it's stupid! At 6:00, when drawing the boxes, how do you make sure that the box is symmetrical, as in the left and right sides of the box is equal? I've been trying to figure it out on Procreate using the 2d grid drawing guide, just trying to line up the rectangle with the grid, but I'm sure there's an easier way to do this? D:
i didnt understand a word of this but I still watched it! Love you Dina!
Thanks. I have been planning a card game so this video is going to be very helpful when I get to the execution phase.
Ok definitely gonna have to try this. Great video 👍
As soon as I feel ready for such investments I'm definitely gonna do them! Thank you so much for showing^^
Btw are there also other side's or shops you would recommend for these kind of things ?
Thank you for sharing this. I'm not familiar with your work and yet immediately felt inspired and bewildered when I looked at these cards you so effortfully create for your Patreons.
I simply had an idea in mind which required making custom cards and wanted to see what options were out there. You delivered in spades and diamonds Dina.
Stay you!
Connor from Aus 🦘🎹
Omg Bella Sara was SUCH a big part of my childhood!
Amanda and what is it?
@@Zia-ep3co it was basically an online trading game with small minigames, all based around horses and some magic stuff - definitely something for kids
I’m so early! Only 21 comments!
Dina you are such a breath of fresh air and are so unbelievably talented ♡ Love from Canada
I've been making creature cards for my patrons too, it's a great reward. Mine are a bit more like postcard prints though (pretty much the smallest I could get without them being a business card) and I have been considering converting to a more standard trading card size. I do love that pokemon card feel.
Hey Dina, what Ipad would you recommend for beginners? I just getting started to draw, like what would you say is the bare minimum?
Bella Sarah was my favorite game. It has a online game! In the childhood i was so happy with this
Omg Bella Sara was my childhood :0 I just recently found the DS game and bought it but omg 😩
Also your art is amazing
This is something I just got interested in and came across. Seeing the the comments you've passed, r.i.p. 😢
I love this creature so much! It’s very cute!
Question, do you always shade with purple?
From an illustration background, I can say that it’s very common in most styles to use a hue to do shading and highlighting.
She makes a lot of use of very vibrant colors, so purple is a good choice for shading. Since red is a warm color and blue is cool, she can adjust the hue to compliment the base color - if she were doing an icy snow man for example, a very deep blue purple will contrast the cooler colors and make it feel out of atmospheric ambient light, and using a warmer pink or ashy rose for highlights will make it very bright and cheery.
Conversely, if it were a snow man at night, a mid value cyan blue highlight with a very warm red purple will keep the piece feeling cold over all but deepen the shadows with out changing the value of the white shapes too much.
Hope this helps!
i must say i love detailed backgrounds they invoke wonder and wanting to know more about where the creature is from :)
Ooooh bellasara was my childhood! Fiona was my favorite card, I think I still have her... I remember being on the website for hours just caring for all the horses from the cards
This is a clear, well made process, thank you for the great video!
Hi Dina, I love your work I just became a Patreon of yours. Keep up the awesome work.
I just found your channel within the last few days and have been enjoying watching you create your creatures! I've been thinking about what animals to offer for your creature jar. I have a Poodle, if you want to add one of those, but I wanted to think of something particularly special. I just ran across an idea on Pinterest. Do you have a chinchilla? They just seem so... Perfect! For creating a magical creature for the collection.
This is so amazing! I wanna do a card game, your tips are helpful. Thank you!
I just found this channel and dont regret it.
Imma follow you bc I've be doing this for a while and your stuff looks amazing 👏🏼
I played on the bellasara website SO MUCH as a kid, on my grandparents computer, oh my god
I've been wanting to do some sort of trading card with the art I make on my channel, thank you for showing us your process!
Thanks for making this video! I'm hoping to make a card based ttrpg like DnD so I hope to use this as help to make the cards!
I remember Bella Sara. I even checked out my old account on the website recently. It’s sad to see that it’s pretty much shut down now.
I bought so many Bella Sarah packs as a kid! I loved them!
Found it today. Amazing video and very helpfull.
I'm going to buy an ipad by the end of the year and was planning on doing a card game. You helped me a loooooooot \o/
Thanks Dina! Very inspiring and informative video!
Hope I'm not just repeating somebody else but I noticed when you set up your procreate file at that point you should choose CYMK color instead of RGB because you're going to end up printing it and printers use CYMK, whereas RGB is exclusively for digital purposes such as online or in an app or something anything that's going to be rendered on your device only, and so when you convert it to CYMK from RGB or when they do to make it compatible with their printers is going to change the color slightly. I wonder if you notice when you get your cards back that it looks a little different than it does on your screen so that is probably why.
Similarly when you're using your color picker for anything with print make sure you're in CYMK.
Cheers!
It completely depends who will be printing it. Most of these general consumer print services actually refuse CMYK, because the process they've established assumes the regular customer doesn't know how to set up a print-ready file, thus the print service does the conversion. Similarly, if you print at home like me, there's virtually no reason at all to use a CMYK profile. Even though my inkjet printer has individual CMYK inks, the software is designed to accept and convert RGB. I've tried printing with CMYK profiles at the advice of others (similar to your comment), and it always comes out awful looking.
5:00 OMFG I LOVE YOU !!! I (my parents *cough*) spend so much monez into Bella sara's card xDD !!
Also It because of them I started drawings something else than pokemon... I was 10, i'm 21 now
if you vector it u wont haave to worry about the size u can maker it any size after its vecotrized and u wont have to zoom out u can make it huge then when done u can make it a smaller size never loosing any details
Thank you sooo much your the best you tuber omg good video!!
Im gonna find these helpful. Im also wanting to make a tcg ever since playing pokemon, mtg, and cardfight vanguard. I took abm to help me with the business lol and still planning what the mechanics will be
I would honestly LOVE for these to be made into a game similar to pokemon/magic the gathering. They are beautiful!
Omg they look so beautiful !!!!!
This video was so helpful thank you so much dina!
Omg I loved the belle Sarah cards, even if 1 only ever got 2.
I just felt in love
Really awesome and informative! At 14:15 you got me thinking though. Something MtG, and probably some others, does that I like, are "full art" cards. But it's usually not so simple as it just filling the entire card with the illustration, sometimes it's just that the text area is a bit transparent, probably at 60% opacity or something. Would clipping masks like you use here work for something like that? Or would you instead have the borders and things be layers above with holes in them (where you "look through" to see the art)?
Just a tip as Im someone that is studying graphic design: Converting your photos and artworks before you put them into a layout is very important. I assume that this website uses digital printers and no offset printers but you gotta pay attention to things like these. Otherwise your quality can lack simply because you didnt check everything properly. Ive had that issue before and let me tell you: IT IS FRUSTRATING. Getting a decent color profile to change your artwork into befor printing it and putting it into a layout is very very important.
While a lot of times, esp. with saturated ocolors you dont see to harsh of a difference the more pastel you go the bigger the difference is in print (this happens mostly with mixed tones). You should always even while editing stuff like this have a (more or less) clear look at the end result. Thus changing your photos is key. Plus offset printer (which most online printing services dont use but as i mentioned be aware and check that stuff) have trouble reading rgb files incooperated into a pdf file (even if its converted with indesign it can be troublesome sometimes).
Aww, I'm in your video! :o
I've been working on my own TCG called Teia Way, making lots of cute creatures!
You are an amazing artist
BELLA SARA!!! FRICK YES I WAS OBSESSEDDDDD
Hello, could you please tell me which brushes you use in procreate (to sketch, the line art, and the first colour) ? I'm a beginner... Thank you, the video was fun to watch !
This is exacly what I was looking for
wow your work is epic and cute! love it.
Wow this is amazing! Thank you for sharing this! Love your Cards... 🤙
Awesome tutorial! Also your art is awesome, keep up the fantastic work!
(Might become a patreon.)
Funny thing is you overlooked something when it comes to card sizes, sleeves and binder sheets. Pokemon and other games have a specific size for the reason of products that support them, if the card is too small, it'll fall out, and if it's too big it just won't fit.
Just thought it was important to point this out.
Dina, I love all the cool things you make!! How do you go about making your stickers?