For a few years now I’ve been working on and off on a digital card game partially inspired by Final Fantasy‘s Triple Triad. Programming wise, I’ve completed a working javascript mockup with animations (details about that will have to wait until another post). Midway through coding I got sick of looking at filler artworks so I created these pieces to represent the different ‘suits’ of the cards in the game.

Technology:

Magic:

Wisdom:

Strength:

The drew the images at print-level DPI so that digital cards could theoretically be made into the real thing someday. Overall, I’m pretty proud of these. I did each one in the order they are presented above. The first one probably took 4 or 5 hours, because I was developing the look the same time I was illustrating. The ‘strength’ icon was probably the most difficult. The final version you above was actually the third iteration and I feel like it could still be improved, but sometimes you just have to step and let it stay finished.

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be going through my backlog of design, drawing, and illustration work and posting some of my favorite pieces.

To start it off, here is a piece I did in early 2007 while figuring out Photoshop’s blending options: