But when you live in Holland it becomes a little too expensive, I'm reliant on the local magic shops that buy decks from collectableplayingcards who sometimes buy some decks from kickstarter , shipping is just, ugh...

Win a prototype deck!

Would especially be cool if they turned out to be a thing one day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJEjFPMSLLo

Hey,

Been a while since I've stopped by this forum. But it's never too late to share something visual, right?

I've been busy designing a fully custom 'minimal' (yea again) deck, mainly just for fun.
The idea was to make it much more colorful and such, but after designing this 'base' of the cards, I actually thought they make a pretty O-kay minimal deck.

The actual deck should have a lot of colored lines (as with a previous design I've made), so this is just a 'checkpoint' which I'll print a few of just to have.

I can imagine you don't like the royalties because, well, there really aren't any because I can't draw for shit  .

Kind regards,

Wiliam

Good day,

I've had this idea for a while, but just didn't have (or didn't make) the time to put something on paper.

The idea was some fully custom deck that is colorful yet elegant. As for this week I made a few sketches as well as the custom pips (whom I think will stay the way they are).

I only did the Ace's and the back design. And was wondering what anyones thoughts were about this. Also, I'd like to know if anyone ever done something (quite) like this one.
Because I don't think I'm quite good enough to make decks for selling it to others (due to this being made almost purely on paper, and therefor having flaws) I can make them how I like. The reason I wonder if there's a deck quite like this one, is because I'm having a hard time coming up with a good design for the royalties that fit the theme.

If this all made a bit sense, and you understand that I'll probably make a few 'private' copies, I can now show the first sketches!

Aces:



The back design:



Thanks for your time!  ;)

I love...

...as well!

Hey Don,

I asked for feedback, and that is what you are giving. There's nothing wrong with that

I think I understand what you mean. It's too much. And as for a certain extend, that is true. The thing is that I want to be able to show why a deck is in the regarding list. For this reason, it is necessary to show at least the deck's components that make it special. But, I agree that in some cases, I show sides of the deck that are not contributing to it's beauty, and can therefor be omitted. The thing is that It makes me feel a little like a commercial you tuber when I show a lot of aspects from one deck, and only a few from one other. But due to the fact that links to the full displays are in the video description, this is something I might just need to get over with .

As for the movement, I think it's somewhat personal preferences. I think that if there were less images to be shown, it would be a lot less 'annoying'  to watch. Also, it might have been better to have a fixed movement speed that is really (really) low, even on the cards where I zoomed in a little more (even though you will then not get to see the full card).

From what I understand, you rather see the comments as more of a subtitle, instead of a hard-core title in the video. The problem with this is that just the size of the cards. As for now, they fill up from top to bottom (height) entirely, whilst not even taking up half of the width. This leaves a lot of open space, which I chose to use as the fitting spot to use for the commenting on the decks. I frankly have not tried to have it as a subtitle, since it would overlap the cards.

As for the music: I wanted to use one song, which resulted in not very much choice since there are not that many easy-to-find 7-minute songs. I still quite like this one. Guess that is in fact a personal opinion.

I hope I understand you correctly, and I understood you correctly.

Once again, this is my first video that is not just a deck display, so feedback is really welcome, even when it is a lot. So once again, thank you!

William.

Welcome William and thanks for sharing your videos. I like your review style and excellent choice of music. Well done.

Thank you for your nice words, and thanks for having me!

That looks amazing.
The back design made me think of the "Royal Zen" deck, which in my opinion looks absolutely gorgeous. Even though I have not managed to get my hands on a set of those.



I will get those as soon as they are available in my country, thanks for the post!