I've always admired cards with work done on them, and I was thinking of trying my hand at it without risking the destruction of my cards. I am thinking of painting on top of a sleeved card (the thin transparent sleeves meant to fit inside of other sleeves, such as the KMC perfect fits). That way, one could preserve the original condition of the card.
Does anyone know how feasible this is, or if it would even be possible to make the result look good? I have a feeling that an alteration that's not directly on top of the card might look strange. On the other hand, though, these types of sleeves do fit rather snugly and many times aren't noticeable.
I've seen this done before. Just can't remember where off the top of my head. From my experience with the KMC perfect fits, they are a rather tight fit inside of normal sleeves. Any significant thickness might be too much. You could try Perfect Fits inside of Character guards. They are the sleeves that can hold the Normal KMC sleeves. I think. The acrylic might have issues adhering to the plastic of the sleeve. Try it on a spare penny sleeve or something to test it out. I'd be curious about this.
Okay, I finally got some art supplies and some spare time, and I decided to give making alters a shot. I altered the same Odyssey basic Island three times. (#337)
The one on the left was my first attempt, just acrylic paint on the card. The second island is in an inner sleeve which was given the same acrylic paint treatment. The third was again just a normal alter. I think I got progressively better at the painting, but it was balanced out by me being more careless after some burnout. I am a pretty crummy artist and didn't really know what I was doing with these, but I do find my work to be charming though.
The paint adhered fine on the kmc perfect fit, and the inner sleeved card had no problems going inside of a dek prot standard sized sleeve. I think aesthetics would be the only thing preventing this alter method from being viable, but I couldn't tell you if a competent artist could make it look good. I didn't do any fine detail painting here, so I don't know if its possible to do on a perfect fit sleeve.
Edit: Well, the attachments are in the wrong order, but hopefully its not too confusing.
I would think this is a problematic method. Paint on plastic is a risky proposition to begin with. And I would rate the potential for cracking/flaking quite high, especially with it being a soft/non-rigid surface.
Seems like practicing on valueless commons or basic lands might be more worth your time? Then you're getting used to the medium you want to be painting on? Also, cracking/flaking is inevitable.
Does anyone know how feasible this is, or if it would even be possible to make the result look good? I have a feeling that an alteration that's not directly on top of the card might look strange. On the other hand, though, these types of sleeves do fit rather snugly and many times aren't noticeable.
URGEDH Biovisionary.dec BShirei WBSelenia
The brain is the muscle that pumps stupid through the body
The one on the left was my first attempt, just acrylic paint on the card. The second island is in an inner sleeve which was given the same acrylic paint treatment. The third was again just a normal alter. I think I got progressively better at the painting, but it was balanced out by me being more careless after some burnout. I am a pretty crummy artist and didn't really know what I was doing with these, but I do find my work to be charming though.
The paint adhered fine on the kmc perfect fit, and the inner sleeved card had no problems going inside of a dek prot standard sized sleeve. I think aesthetics would be the only thing preventing this alter method from being viable, but I couldn't tell you if a competent artist could make it look good. I didn't do any fine detail painting here, so I don't know if its possible to do on a perfect fit sleeve.
Edit: Well, the attachments are in the wrong order, but hopefully its not too confusing.
URGEDH Biovisionary.dec BShirei WBSelenia
The brain is the muscle that pumps stupid through the body