The goal of this entirely original project is to illustrate a card for a trading card series like Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh. I drew the subject of this card (the Gourmandizing Moon Flower) traditionally before I scanned the final version onto my computer. I then downloaded a free image from www.pixabay.com/ and I played around with certain blending modes in Photoshop. After both of these steps were taken care of, I combined them altogether in an Illustrator file.
After presenting an in-progress version of the card to the class on Monday October 12, 2020, I received some valuable feedback which helped inform the look of the final card. Suggestions such as changing the color of the background, adding borders to the main artwork, and looking to the Hearthstone series for reference, helped improve this piece dramatically from where it was. One other change I added was a bounding box containing the information on the monster’s attack moves (a choice inspired by a combination of Pokemon and Hearthstone).
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