Painting the card really made me want to play again :-D Anyone interested in seeing some more card alter videos? Anything more helpful to show? Any specific cards would be great to see?
I would love to see it more. I passed for something similar.. used to play magic but life changed (adopted an old dog that required a lot of attention, so I shofted into rt). Now that my buddy has passed away I started playign magic again and I am holding myself to not paint over all my expensive modern decks :P
Your did great!! I've been watching tutorial videos before I get into painting cards to pick up techniques. You are a good teacher! I'd enjoy watching you transform Creatures, Sorcery or Artifacts cards!
for the record, as a canvas painter, I feel like miniature painting probably prepares you for card altering more than canvas painting does! unless, like... you paint on a really tiny canvas and your card alter is doing a whole new original piece of art
Haha. This is a really good point! I just feel canvas painters are used to using their imagination and filling in blanks! Painting miniatures can sometimes be more like painting by numbers :-D
@@WatchItPaintIt that's fair. I think both prepare one for different aspects of card altering. I find it much easier to paint on a canvas than a card even though I'm using my imagination, because I can kinda do whatever I want, and if a color isn't *exactly* how I planned or something isn't *exactly* where I planned it to be, pretty much no one can tell! whereas on a card, it's pretty obvious if I messed up something like a border extension 😅 Paint also sticks to canvases way better but I have no idea what that's like on a mini
ive only altered a few cards now, but one tip that drastically helped on the ones I wanted to fully cover the card was light sandpaper/ink eraser, a base coat of pigment-based ink (for this to really work you want to let it cure a long time, overnight possibly), and a basecoat of airbrush-grade miniature primer, I use whatever brush I have that's clean but anything watercolor/acrylic grade is best.
Solid technical advice on how to prep and work on the card stock. I love the finished as well. This is making me consider learning how to become a novice painter at card art alters.
Definitely worth a shot! Like the rest of us you must have a billion spare cards to practice on :-D thanks for the comment, hope you get some paint on some cards one day!
I loved the white borders too. One of my favorite mountains. Thanks for this tutorial. I already had the paint and tried this kinda thing on my own but was having trouble with a good look and making things stick. I didn’t think to remove the ink on the border first. Excellent advice and a beautiful alter. Thanks for this
Awesome, I love the way extended alters look and I’ve always wanted to buy some but now I think I’m going to try to do it on my own. Thanks for the great tutorial
I’m the same, love full art cards and was surprised how easy it is to extend cards out, getting closer to full art. Hope you’re successful and have fun!
Haha. It’s quite different isn’t it? Felt very hard to me compared to painting minis - probably the lack of artwork to copy :D but I definitely felt like it will help me with miniature painting too!
Haha. Sneaked that one in there! My list is banned now :-( I was running gitaxion probes. It’s been 5 years since I played a tournament, I’d build a new infect deck for my return :-D
Thanks a lot for that vid ! I came back 2 hours ago with paint, brushes and took some cards to test it out ! I even had the one you use in the video, but I must it's hard to learn the blending between the colors.. But it will come !
Coming from the same boat of painting miniatures but not painting canvas, you've made it look like something I can attempt. And I feel you on the white borders. I get it at the beginning when we first started getting core sets with black borders, the people didn't want white bordered cards anymore. But they haven't made white bordered cards since, so I get nostalgic for them from time to time. It sucks, when I'm looking up prices, as soon as something hits revised or 4th edition the price drops from thousands or hundreds down to maybe a quarter of a dollar.
A year late here, but I would recommend keyforge. I've had a lot of fun with it, and it is a nice alternative to magic when you need a game that is less time consuming and less complex. It is also much more newbie friendly if you want to start teaching someone card games
Love the branching out. Another thing I've seen is people getting multiple copies of the same card (either tokens or land) and then cutting the different layers of depth out of them and then stacking them. Sort of a forced perspective 3D thing.
@@WatchItPaintIt Right there with you. Every time I see one of the company painters like Duncan or Peachy from Warhammer TV say "This part uses a knife, so if you are young, get an adult to help." I think to myself, yeah but who helps us not cut off something.
GURMANGLER! I wrecked a buddy with that guy in a Tower game. Delve plus shared graveyard meant I got him out way too early, and then I just kept sticking enchantments and bestow creatures on him.
question for ya: i’m an artist, and a friend of mine is very into MTG. for his birthday, he asked me to do a few alter cards for him, but i’m personally not into MTG and knew nothing about them until he told me. obviously i wanted to look up some examples to see how others do it and first of all, this is incredibly impressive!!! you’re very talented and i admire your work! anyways, i’ve done many paintings in the past, but never on a card. do you recommend sealing the finished cards with anything specific or just leaving the acrylic as is? thank you so much!
I personally sleeve all my cards when I play, so I have found that to be enough. I don’t know what professional alterers would do, might be worth asking one? If you friend is very into MtG I would bet money he sleeves his cards too so would likely not matter either, once it’s in a sleeve it’s well protected and won’t get touched! FYI, I don’t recall if I mentioned in the video but I am not an artist. Until 3 years ago I’d never even held a paint brush :-D so I suspect you will make some very impressive work! Would love to see what you produce, tag me in on social media if you get some done!
@@WatchItPaintIt good to know, thank you so much! he’s wanting me to do some anime themed alters so it’ll definitely be interesting! he did give me the cards in sleeves so i’m sure he sleeves them when he plays too, but i’ll double check to make sure. if he wants me to seal them for whatever reason though, i’ll try to reach out to some professional alterers and see what they’d do! again, thank you so much for your help! my instagram is @art_by_sophia, i’ll eventually post them on there and i’ll try to remember to tag you too!
Very true! But I am fairly unartistic, never painted a thing in my life until I started this channel. So folks can learn that it’s not as hard as they think! Thanks for the comment man, happy holidays!
Those paints near me are 4-5 bucks(T_T), using citadel paint is 5-6 dollars (plus 10 percent tax, darn you tax). I tried using cheap acrylic paint from joann fabric but, it's difficult to mix colors. This has been super useful! I enjoyed this video. Thank you.
D’oh! Shame those paints are quite costly near you :-( more like $3-4 each here! But yeah sadly, you get what you pay for and while the cheap stuff will work, it’s a little harder to use. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the comment!!
@@WatchItPaintIt I can't wait to see more tutorials in the future. I randomly post in the alter group and this has been super helpful so hopefully I can produce something decent.
The reason you can still see the edges, but have them disappear in the sleeve must surely be because of different finish - gloss/matt/satin etc. So if you use some sort of varnish over the whole card, you could probably get it more in line as well, no?
Absolutely beautiful work, you made it look easy! I sure am not a painter myself, but really love altered cards. Is there a chance that you also take orders? I‘d love to have some altered basic lands :) Anyway great video, really entertaining to watch 👍🏻
Beautiful work and i was looking to start doing extended art lands for my merfolk deck and was wondering what kind of paints and brushes did you use for this?
Oh wow, i'm late for a response but in case you're still wondering, i personnaly use acrylic paint and very very thin brushes (some seems to have only two little hairs because they're so thin) Some may use makeup brushes for precision but i never saw a makeup brush as thin as the ones i have (some cheap brushes you can find on Amazon or any other website of that type !)
@@WatchItPaintIt Hey, you gotta start somewhere. Honestly tho, I feel like the power 9's OG art doesn't need a full art unless if it is alternative art. Also, completely unrelated, thank you so much! I have been looking to make a deck that utilizes the graveyard with surveil and stuff, but you mentioning "shriekhorn" gave me an idea. You da best!
@@WatchItPaintIt those misty rainforests... any "fetchland" you have, ESPECIALLY the original ver from Zendikar (they go for a little more) not one of them is below 50 dollars these days. Misty is at around 70 dollars A PIECE these days Im pretty sure, Noble Heirarch is 20 a piece, etc. I want to finish my Death's Shadow deck, but the fetches are too expensive so I cant have em! Lucky man you are!
Painting the card really made me want to play again :-D Anyone interested in seeing some more card alter videos? Anything more helpful to show? Any specific cards would be great to see?
Played MTG back in the 90s when it first came out. Never heard of anyone doing this though lol
I would love to see it more. I passed for something similar.. used to play magic but life changed (adopted an old dog that required a lot of attention, so I shofted into rt). Now that my buddy has passed away I started playign magic again and I am holding myself to not paint over all my expensive modern decks :P
Your did great!! I've been watching tutorial videos before I get into painting cards to pick up techniques. You are a good teacher! I'd enjoy watching you transform Creatures, Sorcery or Artifacts cards!
Ya id love to see more and I would love to learn
I’d love to see a Blightsteel Colossus alter. I know it’s a pretty expensive card, so if you don’t already have don’t buy it just to do the alter.
Leaving my like as a fellow infect lover. There are dozens of us!
DOZENS!!!
He plays modern infect
Goddamnit
Hahha :D I played it when it was standard!
for the record, as a canvas painter, I feel like miniature painting probably prepares you for card altering more than canvas painting does! unless, like... you paint on a really tiny canvas and your card alter is doing a whole new original piece of art
Haha. This is a really good point! I just feel canvas painters are used to using their imagination and filling in blanks! Painting miniatures can sometimes be more like painting by numbers :-D
@@WatchItPaintIt that's fair. I think both prepare one for different aspects of card altering. I find it much easier to paint on a canvas than a card even though I'm using my imagination, because I can kinda do whatever I want, and if a color isn't *exactly* how I planned or something isn't *exactly* where I planned it to be, pretty much no one can tell! whereas on a card, it's pretty obvious if I messed up something like a border extension 😅
Paint also sticks to canvases way better but I have no idea what that's like on a mini
Thanks for the video, you just made a player into a novice card painter XD
That’s awesome! Won’t be long before you’re pro!
ive only altered a few cards now, but one tip that drastically helped on the ones I wanted to fully cover the card was light sandpaper/ink eraser, a base coat of pigment-based ink (for this to really work you want to let it cure a long time, overnight possibly), and a basecoat of airbrush-grade miniature primer, I use whatever brush I have that's clean but anything watercolor/acrylic grade is best.
This is amazing! I've really wanted to start altering cards, and this was super informative and easy to follow. Thank you so much!
Thanks for the comment! Hope it helps you get some cards altered! Happy painting :-)
im a mini painter who'd love to get into magic alters, especially for my own lands and commanders
It’s easier than I thought! With any talent you’ll be amazing - if I can manage this anyone can
More of these mtg cards please 👩🏻🎨
Oooh. I filmed one a while back, need to finish editing it :)
Solid technical advice on how to prep and work on the card stock. I love the finished as well. This is making me consider learning how to become a novice painter at card art alters.
Definitely worth a shot! Like the rest of us you must have a billion spare cards to practice on :-D thanks for the comment, hope you get some paint on some cards one day!
I loved the white borders too. One of my favorite mountains. Thanks for this tutorial. I already had the paint and tried this kinda thing on my own but was having trouble with a good look and making things stick. I didn’t think to remove the ink on the border first. Excellent advice and a beautiful alter. Thanks for this
Great video! I was hooked after you casually flashed that sick Simic deck at the beginning with tons of fetches. Awesomen
Thanks man, I loved infect :-D was just in standard when I started playing MtG so I kept the deck for modern!
Just here for the magic! Thank you!
Awesome, I love the way extended alters look and I’ve always wanted to buy some but now I think I’m going to try to do it on my own. Thanks for the great tutorial
I’m the same, love full art cards and was surprised how easy it is to extend cards out, getting closer to full art. Hope you’re successful and have fun!
Never been too into Magic: the gathering but this is fascinating
Haha. It’s quite different isn’t it? Felt very hard to me compared to painting minis - probably the lack of artwork to copy :D but I definitely felt like it will help me with miniature painting too!
My mans has a gross modern deck and just casually brushes it aside. I’m jealous, give me your list!
Haha. Sneaked that one in there! My list is banned now :-( I was running gitaxion probes. It’s been 5 years since I played a tournament, I’d build a new infect deck for my return :-D
Thanks a lot for that vid ! I came back 2 hours ago with paint, brushes and took some cards to test it out !
I even had the one you use in the video, but I must it's hard to learn the blending between the colors.. But it will come !
Yay! Yes, it takes a little bit of practice but 3 years ago I’d never held a paint brush before :D and im very far from a creative person :-D
Same situation haha ! Never really held a brush either, but I'll get there one day ! I hope I'll get as good as you :)
Coming from the same boat of painting miniatures but not painting canvas, you've made it look like something I can attempt.
And I feel you on the white borders.
I get it at the beginning when we first started getting core sets with black borders, the people didn't want white bordered cards anymore. But they haven't made white bordered cards since, so I get nostalgic for them from time to time.
It sucks, when I'm looking up prices, as soon as something hits revised or 4th edition the price drops from thousands or hundreds down to maybe a quarter of a dollar.
Two of my gaming hobbies covered in a single video? OMG! This is pure magic...or Magic? Oh, both :)
Haha :-D glad you liked it man! I miss playing MTG :-(
Watch It Paint It Same here. I have couple thousands cards and no play since loong time. But, as my kids are getting older this will change. 😀
Looks good. I want to start altering myself so it's nice to see ya do it
Great! Nice and easy to get into :-) good luck
Very nice
A year late here, but I would recommend keyforge. I've had a lot of fun with it, and it is a nice alternative to magic when you need a game that is less time consuming and less complex. It is also much more newbie friendly if you want to start teaching someone card games
Love the branching out. Another thing I've seen is people getting multiple copies of the same card (either tokens or land) and then cutting the different layers of depth out of them and then stacking them. Sort of a forced perspective 3D thing.
Cheers Rob! Yeah I’ve seen that, looks really cool. Lot of cutting! And you’ve seen me use a knife :D
@@WatchItPaintIt Right there with you. Every time I see one of the company painters like Duncan or Peachy from Warhammer TV say "This part uses a knife, so if you are young, get an adult to help." I think to myself, yeah but who helps us not cut off something.
This was awesome. I would love to see islands and a rendition of talrand sky summomer!
I really want to do some more tutorials. I enjoyed this card albeit a lot harder than miniatures for me!
@@WatchItPaintIt you made it look easy lol
Love to see more of these, i'm learning to paint both minis and mtg cards, so these are absolutely more of what i want :)
this is great thanks
No problem dude. Hope it can help
Thank you this is so helpful as i am staying at home due to covid 19 virus !
You can pimp your whole deck by the time tournaments run again!! :-D :,(
think am going to give this a go for some of the lands in my commander decks
GURMANGLER!
I wrecked a buddy with that guy in a Tower game. Delve plus shared graveyard meant I got him out way too early, and then I just kept sticking enchantments and bestow creatures on him.
Sick.
Any recommendation on what to seal the finished alter with? Loved the mountain even if I was worried about what you’d do to an Avon mountain lol.
question for ya: i’m an artist, and a friend of mine is very into MTG. for his birthday, he asked me to do a few alter cards for him, but i’m personally not into MTG and knew nothing about them until he told me. obviously i wanted to look up some examples to see how others do it and first of all, this is incredibly impressive!!! you’re very talented and i admire your work! anyways, i’ve done many paintings in the past, but never on a card. do you recommend sealing the finished cards with anything specific or just leaving the acrylic as is? thank you so much!
I personally sleeve all my cards when I play, so I have found that to be enough. I don’t know what professional alterers would do, might be worth asking one? If you friend is very into MtG I would bet money he sleeves his cards too so would likely not matter either, once it’s in a sleeve it’s well protected and won’t get touched!
FYI, I don’t recall if I mentioned in the video but I am not an artist. Until 3 years ago I’d never even held a paint brush :-D so I suspect you will make some very impressive work! Would love to see what you produce, tag me in on social media if you get some done!
@@WatchItPaintIt good to know, thank you so much! he’s wanting me to do some anime themed alters so it’ll definitely be interesting! he did give me the cards in sleeves so i’m sure he sleeves them when he plays too, but i’ll double check to make sure. if he wants me to seal them for whatever reason though, i’ll try to reach out to some professional alterers and see what they’d do! again, thank you so much for your help! my instagram is @art_by_sophia, i’ll eventually post them on there and i’ll try to remember to tag you too!
You cant learn straight talent!! Nice work!!
Very true! But I am fairly unartistic, never painted a thing in my life until I started this channel. So folks can learn that it’s not as hard as they think! Thanks for the comment man, happy holidays!
@@WatchItPaintIt im still amazed. Just want to ask, do you sell altered mgt cards?
HOLMBOY I don’t I’m afraid. I do occasionally give away things on our Patreon which did include some magic cards in the past!
I would like to see more of these
Awesome! I’d like to try some more. Anything in particular?
Looks amazin
Thank you so much! And that’s what someone with no experience can do!
More of this please!
Those paints near me are 4-5 bucks(T_T), using citadel paint is 5-6 dollars (plus 10 percent tax, darn you tax). I tried using cheap acrylic paint from joann fabric but, it's difficult to mix colors. This has been super useful! I enjoyed this video. Thank you.
D’oh! Shame those paints are quite costly near you :-( more like $3-4 each here! But yeah sadly, you get what you pay for and while the cheap stuff will work, it’s a little harder to use. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the comment!!
@@WatchItPaintIt I can't wait to see more tutorials in the future. I randomly post in the alter group and this has been super helpful so hopefully I can produce something decent.
The reason you can still see the edges, but have them disappear in the sleeve must surely be because of different finish - gloss/matt/satin etc. So if you use some sort of varnish over the whole card, you could probably get it more in line as well, no?
Good idea! I’ll have to give this a try on some practice cards and see what helps/works the best!
This is so cool
Thanks Tom!
Wow
Absolutely beautiful work, you made it look easy! I sure am not a painter myself, but really love altered cards. Is there a chance that you also take orders? I‘d love to have some altered basic lands :)
Anyway great video, really entertaining to watch 👍🏻
This is awesome :)
Doing another one soon :-) thanks dude
I would have painted the text box black too with keeping the mana symbol only
Here for mtg paint!!!
What would you like to see altered? I need to do more!!
if you add a thin layer of spray-varnish is possible to hide the diference betwen the original art and yours?
Nice fetch lands.
Haha :-D thanks man
0:39 Baymax?
Beautiful work and i was looking to start doing extended art lands for my merfolk deck and was wondering what kind of paints and brushes did you use for this?
Oh wow, i'm late for a response but in case you're still wondering, i personnaly use acrylic paint and very very thin brushes (some seems to have only two little hairs because they're so thin)
Some may use makeup brushes for precision but i never saw a makeup brush as thin as the ones i have (some cheap brushes you can find on Amazon or any other website of that type !)
does it have to be acrylic? What if you use oil?
It will work but the paint will be thicker and easier to feel. Depends if you’re doing it for fun or to play... might be considered marked cards etc
Im struggling with getting the water to acrylic ratio right. Keep going too watery or waaay too thick.
It can be quite a fine balance, especially when painting on paper! What paints are you using?
I can't seem to get the rubber to take any off lol
You gotta persevere through the shiny protective coating :-D once that’s gone the ink comes off easy peasy!
*That one kid that starts out with fullart power 9*
Haha! My first alter was a Shriekhorn :-D I am trailer trash!
@@WatchItPaintIt Hey, you gotta start somewhere. Honestly tho, I feel like the power 9's OG art doesn't need a full art unless if it is alternative art. Also, completely unrelated, thank you so much! I have been looking to make a deck that utilizes the graveyard with surveil and stuff, but you mentioning "shriekhorn" gave me an idea. You da best!
What to use when I want to paint only white boarders to black color?
Just black acrylic?
How does just a sharpy/paint pen look? I have these nice felt tips that don’t leave lines - they are like water paint but not wet
Do you mix in water in your paint, or will it work without that?
I thinned it down a little, not as thin as normal as I knew I was painting on paper
Nice job, but next time, keep their signatures!
For the uninitiated, he just showed about a 500+ dollar deck there in the beginning
Wow, good investment, I was around when that was all standard so didn’t cost anything like that at the time! :-O Mtg investments!
@@WatchItPaintIt those misty rainforests... any "fetchland" you have, ESPECIALLY the original ver from Zendikar (they go for a little more) not one of them is below 50 dollars these days. Misty is at around 70 dollars A PIECE these days Im pretty sure, Noble Heirarch is 20 a piece, etc. I want to finish my Death's Shadow deck, but the fetches are too expensive so I cant have em! Lucky man you are!
Btw your alter is so cool, Im working on a Kaldra token so I watched this as a preliminary.
You play mtg?
I used to play A LOT! More only on arena now :-)
im here only for how to alter mtg cards
I’ll make another tutorial this week then! :O
@@WatchItPaintIt subscribed already then
Why can't i sub twice ?
No just no
:O what’s wrong James!?