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Black Phantom Chronicles Card Deck Behind the Scenes Part 2

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  October 10, 2016 Painting Dilemmas As a card deck heavily reliant on painting, my project is progressing somewhat slowly. Painted masterpieces are not things that can be rushed, and unlike working with computers, there is no undo button. With paints, there is not even the eraser of a pencil. Perhaps a mistake can be painted over; sometimes it cannot and if it cannot, the painting might require starting from scratch. I use Photoshop to fix some of those errors, rather than scrapping hours of work, but the intimidation of that fatal mistake can be time consuming in and of itself. Actually, I did not have too much trouble with intimidation or mistakes (nothing that could not be fixed in Photoshop) until this last character painting, the character of Lisya. The fact that she has been this much trouble was a surprise after the last four, and yet, since she is the enchantress, the slowness was somewhat expected. I drew three diff