Really enjoyed your work. Awesome stuff!
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I got some within the rubber washer, way cool!
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Greeting card with rubber washer in a coin flip goes in and out of canada all day 
Stamp is $1.20
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@Swe-can Here you go, I tried to keep it super clean and professional, mixing the colors of your country, hope you like.
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Hi,
The word King, Not sure if you turned on style/emboss or if that is just light and shadow knowledge expressed regardless the additional radian shading on the letters is sweet. The blending of the gold shades is impressive. I did not go to school for art but I watched all the ink masters. messed with Ps3 cracked prior to subscription ( boo subscription.) I have a free program Krita, took a bit of getting used to but great I mean for free. My comp is more limited than Krita If get too many style effects on and don’t flatten the styled layer, like keep it tweakable or just have too many layers the comp slows eventually the program file when opened, opens tries to load then closes. Kinda my bad, I give everything its own layer and a backup layer lol I hit Adobe ps3 layer limit more than once.
Frustration! lol
See Between the fact I talk a mile a minute and to me in my brain it feels too slow when I am talking yet I can only type with 2 fingers. ( I was over 30 before I got my first comp and I used it for FL Studio mainly until it died and it was some time before I got another one for FL Studio and Adobe PS3. ) anyways with all the comments and questions I have for many of these my brain is a crowded intersection. Random ? . When something is one color, rock, snow, Liquid in beaker, purple smoke. What decides if you go with 2,3,4 ,shades of the same color on the comment side, here is one. Good strong outlines.
The Mikey Dread way… @sedin
A good design is always dependant on line weight and cohesive elements, I create all my text in illustrator, yes style, emboss, also just multiple layers stacked together, sometimes I can go outline crazy, but it needs depth, I try to follow, background, middle, and foreground to create depth in my text and the final design.
I use multiple layers, sometime there is over 50, for a full comp, a good text element can have over 15 layers just on its own, before I merge them.
If your having comp issues, try simple 4 element set ups. It pushes you to be more creative with less source elements, and will sharpen your skills.
Create each element in its own file, then merge them and bring them into one, so you don’t have so much to overload the comp. then apply final color grades when merged.
I try to vision all the uses for the design, as a logo and label follow 2 different design paths, a logo needs a final “border” to be used on both dark and light backgrounds, a label is just a borderless design, although I know it will be used on a bag, jar, standalone, I still outline it for final output.
Chrome, gold anything that falls into that spectrum, is harder to make look good, you need to use alot of gradients, plus shadows and highlights.
I take great pride in my lettering and the final elements I choose, it all has to match up for it to look pro, line weight, letters style, art style, shading and final assembly.
My personal pet peeve is when I see designers, not being selective when choosing elements, if its low poly, everything must be low poly, if its high saturated with thin lines, all accompanying elements must be high sat, thin line. For just one main element it may take me 10-15 throw away images before i settle on one that matches. That could be 2hrs of searching through resources.
Each design takes 3-4hrs, for me to be happy, can I do it in less, yes, Will I …no. Need to keep the quality to my standards its same effort I put into my paid clients.
I could talk designing all day, shoot me a PM, thats enough shop talk for the thread!
Blessings and thank you for the kind words.
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Hey just got my electric power back on they have been working on lines.
lot of points I understood much.
I actually can narrow down the years of drawn. Not much really. Grade1 or 2 every day at school with a friend who was better than me . Grade 10 I did 3 drawings, still have them lol
and twice as an adult gave animation a shot. bad animation. lol
Spent along time dicking around for 6 months on Ps3. I couldn’t get through 2 pages of a 30 page script with out wasting over 7 min lol ( 22 min episode) Anyways No one liked it. lol
Not that actually had a finished story. Fittin In Episode 1 Live Free ( sampler) - YouTube
I had zero prior animation knowledge and no internet, so I did not know about walk cycles lol but I did decent creating and timing mouth movements. I watched family guy dvd’s like a hawk until I could see what shapes made what sounds.
Yes I will PM art talk, get your advice and opinions. Art talk.
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!! I like the Viking touch indeed!! Much appreciated @MikeyDread
I thought in my mind this guy is gonna go all crazy and do some Swedish meatballs or something 
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I love the one with the black background!! Makes it pop out! Is their a way to have them sent to me?
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Do I inquire on here or via messaging?
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Send me you email visa PM, and I will send the masters, glad you like!!
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Been a crazy weekend, crazy storm hit my town, so many trees destroyed, took out all the power lines.
Day 3 no power, had to take the fam to a Holiday Inn couple towns over.
Good night to puff on the flower vape and bang out some art, hope all are well.
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Crazy! Hope all is well with you and the family!
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Hope you and the family are well. That storm was pretty crazy around my parts too.
Where do I get the washers from brother?
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Hope everything gets back to normal Mikey!
much appreciated brother @G-paS Always good to lend a hand to the community, thanks for reaching out, hope the team likes the labels.
Shout out to @The_Lazy_Hippie
+++ Members’, if you got drops, box’s, breeding projects, feel free to get at me++++
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