A few weeks ago I asked you what I should paint on next and you chose playing cards! ♥️♣️♦️♠️ so here's my creative process for doing that! It was actually really fun to do! It. As we all know, playing with a plain deck of cards can be boring. Well, to spice everything up, here is a step.
So, today I am going to be doing a very long awaited request (or.demand) from my audience to paint/customize an entire deck of playing cards using my original characters. Getting professional-looking results when printing your own playing cards can be tricky. A coating is essential for protecting the cards and getting them to have the right feel.
So what should you use to coat inkjet printed playing cards? As a professional custom playing card printing manufacturer, I've tested a variety of solutions for coating []. I had a question that hopefully you lovely artists can help me with! I painted a deck of Avatar the Last Airbender cards (acrylic paint and black ink pen) and want to seal them with something permanent so that they're playable. Most playing cards are coated in plastic.
If you could coat your cards this may create a unifying surface. Make a test card. You can also lightly sand (with a really fine grit) the painted surface once it is completely dry this way you won't feel the paint through a coating.
A spray. My wife made a gift deck by carving a rubber stamp to use for the backs and drawing in ballpoint for the faces using double-blank Bicycle cards. The ink from the rubber stamp did pretty well, if it needed a while to dry.
Ballpoint worked out, too, but smudged easily and needed a very long time to set. So for starters, you don't have to do your cards exactly like mine, you can prep yours however you'd like to but we need to give those card something for sprays, inks, paint and markers to hold onto. This video demonstrates the process of painting an art extension on a classic Magic the Gathering island from Urza's Saga.
The beginner's guide provides information on paints, brushes, and tools used to create art on Magic: The Gathering cards. Alternatively you can put the playing cards directly into the saucepan and gently swill them around to completely stain them, but painting them with a brush will give you a little more control over the look. For instance, maybe you just want to distress the edges or a small section of the card, it's up to you.