This is my participation post for @kus-knee contest!
The idea is to create unique trading cards for Steemit's greatest contributors, starting from @papa-pepper. The participants have to submit a graphic format for the steemit trading cards and the winning format will be used for the creation of more cards in the future.
As soon as I read @kus-knee's post I got excited! That idea never crossed my mind, but it totally makes sense. Steemit is still in the beginning, imagine how cool it would be to have some collectible cards from the early superstars. I am even thinking that the winning format could be printed in a limited amount of cards and become super collectible among steemians!
I really like to challenge myself and try new things, so even if I had no experience with graphics design I wanted to put effort and make a submission! All in all, it was a really fun experience, I burned a sufficient amount of hours but I learned a lot in the progress. I wish I had a better documentation of the process but I will try to share with you some significant details, from the moment I opened GIMP and started the experiment to the final export!
Due to lack of experience, my first thought was to design my card based on other popular trading card formats. After all, if people were buying those, they would buy mine too!😁 In search of inspiration, I saw a bunch of cards online to finally come with a format close to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards. Nostalgia won on this one, as when I was younger Yu-Gi-Oh! was at its peak, with me watching the tv series, playing the console games and collecting the cards (I lost all of them btw).
Next on the list was the cards primary color. @papa-pepper is all about nature so it had to be green. I searched for one of his own photographs to use as a background.
Then I watched a number of tutorials (this one is very good), played with GIMP's tools and after a lot of hours I came up with a result very different from the one you will see below. I don't have that one available at the moment but it wasn't a pretty one. I made another attempt, made the background a little darker, change A LOT of things and finally came up with the final result!
Below is my full submission, front and back of the steemit trading card:
@kus-knee if you like this design we can discuss, make changes and come up with the final result😃.
Optimistic as f#*k,
@kouloumos
Thanks so much for your great entry!
Thanks for the response! I am waiting for the results, having a bunch of ideas for this concept!
I think that we can transform that idea of yours to the next big thing on Steemit!
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This is incredible! Love it. @kouloumos
Θα μπορουσες να βαλεις Poisonous Snake Whale.
Νομιζω οτι το αξιζει... :)
παμε ελλαδάρα δυνατά!
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Congratulations on the Crypto Challenge.
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STOPSo, is this still a thing? Can we create steemit cards? Cool by the way.
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STOPnice post
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STOPwow... i love the design
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