Working on the artwork with Madelyn has been a really fun an interesting process.

The artwork for a card starts with a prompt that I write, trying to capture what I envision the card art to look like. The prompt for the image shown was “a road laced with green crystals to prevent it from wearing.”

Madelyn then takes that prompt and cooks up some concept art in the form of pencil sketches. There is sometimes a bit of discussion at this point if either of us thinks anything is missing.

I’ll then take it into my vector art platform of choice (at the beginning of the project I was using Inkscape exclusively, but I’ve been starting to use Affinity Designer 2 more), and use the sketch as a reference for the vector art that I make over it. This involves some tweaks as I’m making the vector art, and I’m also making color decisions.

After the vector art is done, I’ll send it back to Madelyn to get some more feedback.

It has been a fun and effective way of getting unique ideas from both of us into the theming of Project Aleutian.