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No warnings have been issued, this is just a reminder to the users of this thread that further discussions on this topic will be moderated. If anyone has concerns or questions about this, please don't hesitate to bring them up to the Artwork mod staff.
FYI: since the larger die takes up more space, strangely, I couldn't show the lightning as much, which is why I went with a minor see-through effect. I keep forgetting to save the file, but it is rather easy to dupe so if you need some other changes I can accomodate.
I consider the current posts to be right on the border of acceptable/unacceptable (solicitation). PM is probably the best (worst?) way to discuss this. I know this seems like a horrible way to do this, but currently we'd like to keep any posts that can move towards price/cost/solicitation as close to nil as possible.
A couple of weeks ago, this comes in the mail:
"So, where do I start?" This is always the first thing that comes to mind whenever I begin an alter. Since I have limited cardboard AND I need to make them as similar as possible from card to card, my first dilemma was at hand. This threw me back to a project I did a couple of years back, Vengevine. Since this was the most expensive card I'd worked up until that point, I didn't want to have to buy any more copies than I needed. So I made a print out of the card art (larger than normal) and cut the sheets as if I were working on the card. I made sure to mark the backs of the cut pieces with the "card" I pulled it from for the next step.
After all the pieces were organized together, I then Cut the remaining art from the art box. I then applied Packing tape to the back of the cards to where the sticky side faced the front of the art. I then layed out the pieces in the proper locations so that I can get a template of where my cuts need to be. Since I've limited cardstock to use, I need to make my cuts precise. I also need to make sure that I'm able to duplicate the cuts 13 times per card per layer. Having a cutting template is going to help tremendously.
Now my templates are cut. What's next? Time to cut into a card mimicing my template as much as possible.
From there, I followed all the templates cutting out the pieces as they were on each template. Since I was going for speed, I forgot to take some of the intermediate shots, so I'll just drop the images I have here to show progress.
Whistle while you work....
Work in progress shot.
Detail shot of the work in progress. An issue i have with these cards is that they all have a moderate concave curve to them. It's evident in this image if you look at the right edge of the card. That was after me flattening it for a while. I've taken the stack of cards and run them against the curved edge of my table to flatten them out a bit more. These things hate moisture more than MTG foils
The finished product. I just applied the glue and it is drying. You can see the remnants of it in this picture. Mind you, the layering is thicker than the border. This was my learning card. I learned a lot from it. I even was able to trim off some of the unneeded parts and consolidate a few. There is minimal/zero shaping here, so the next ones will have some shaping to remove some of the concave curvature of the cut work.
Showing some of the details of the finished product
So currently this is where I am, image-wise. I've begun cutting each layer's pieces en masse. I forgot to take pictures of my progress last night, but I will do so tonight to show where I'm at in the whole process. I'm going to cut the layers from least complex to most complex as I'd like to get most of the work out of the way before getting to the harder to cut cards. Normally I work the other way around, but I'm trying to get as much done in as little time as possible and this seems to be the faster route.
In any case, your work looks nice from what I can tell. As for the Dual Life counter thing, that's out of my realm of knowledge. Maybe one of the other helpful people here will be of better assistance. When you say "dual life counter", what specifically are you trying to accomplish? Many of us have just come up with ways of doing stuff and maybe we can help work through figuring out the problem at hand.
If you want to easily display an image of your work here this is how you want to do it:
[spoiler][img]http://i47.tinypic.com/wp8vc.jpg[/img][/spoiler]
Will get you what is below (keep in mind the link between the img tag has to be the direct link to your image):