Some cards /ic/ would call it high beg or int but idk they are just cool to look at

>>7644032 (OP)
early digital art has it's charms. the tools were quite simple.
even pros struggled with digital color. their traditional skills didn't transfer over right away. they were often just shaded with black or white instead of color shifting. lots of airbrush shading. some of the backgrounds are just simple default effects/filters.
some had 3DCG and SFX too, which was janky too.
they look a bit different when printed, you can see all the little dots from the print screening effect.

his artbooks are decent, worth checking out.

>>7644056
Yeah the print made it more charming/complete.
>>7644056
>his artbooks are decent
Got a link?

>>7644056
>his artbooks
Whose artbook? The card catalogue?

>>7644032 (OP)
>calls early yugioh art pre/beg/
>it was literally drawn by a /pro/
hmmm

>>7644238
>calls early yugioh art pre/beg/
/ic/ would call it high beg or int"
Cant you even read dysgenic rat?

>>7644032 (OP)
It was soulful but it frankly wasn’t that good. I think modern Yugioh art is just better.
MtG went in the other direction, the early art is godlike but the modern stuff is just awful.

>>7644732
>/ic/ would call it
Can you tell me the long list of artist on this god forsaken place that have reached anywhere near the heights of Kazuki Takahashi?
And you trust this place to ptoperly assess the skill level of an Artistic Genius? You're dumber than what you sound.

>>7644032 (OP)
There was a weird roughness to it that was strangely appealing. It was interesting. While I think Yu-Gi-Oh is a game that actually managed to consistently look mostly fantastic throughout it's history there is a certain magic and feel to it's old art that isn't there anymore.

>>7644056
A problem with YGO is that the artist credits aren't on the cards. There are some who are very distinctive and you can recognize them when you stumble on their other work, but many are just hidden. As fucked as MTG became at least they had the decency to put the art credits on the cards.

>>7644924
How many of the early Yugioh card illustrations did Takahashi do himself? I don’t think they look too much like his manga art.
Anyway it’s easy to separate technical skill from popularity / “making it”, I don’t even think this is controversial. Ryukishi07 created multiple beloved and iconic characters but he can’t draw for shit.

>>7644924
>And you trust this place to ptoperly assess the skill level of an Artistic Genius?
And again you are the retard who cant read. making assumptions and distorting words. No, I don't trust /ic/ at all to tell what is appealing or not, but the point is some cards in a technical level may look off because like the other anon said, digital art was a new thing.
And don't be a hypocrite . You only call it genius because you know the art is linked to someone who made it. If some anon unknown posted his work here with the same level of skill you would call it beg or int and complain about the colors, light and whatever.

Many of us could've made it back in the day, the bar was too low back then

>>7644087
>>7644090
https://archive.org/details/040_20220724

>>7645021
>>7645029
Nobody drew the Yugioh manga for Kazuki Takahashi ya pinhead, you're the one who's making stupid assumptions.

>>7645203
daamn

>>7645203
This is mixed media.

>>7645348
wat

>>7645305
Fun fact, this is the card set for magi magi magician girl.
The art was drawn for an anniversary and the card itself is unavailable in the west, because Takahashi refused to let the art be censored unlike dark magician girls usual art.
Kinda based

>>7645471
That's not fun. If anything it's depressing.

Barrel dragon was always my fav growing up

love these teamwork oriented lil niggas

>>7644032 (OP)
>>7644056
Basically this. It was early digital art era and shit was done however people see fit, no standards for it, no software that was pre-defined, no restrictions so you only got your skills and hard work. That's why it look so fucking good.

>>7644032 (OP)
Maybe on some level, the sheer crudeness of the digital tools pushed them harder to make the subject and composition as good as they could. Like if the top surface just ain't going to be that pretty, what else is left

classic

>>7644032 (OP)
I figured that the spice was the bold black shading.
The new cards just dont do it for me

Old Yugioh had that whimsical look which never strayed too far from the series' dark and occultish roots.

Who was your card crush, anon?

>>7647246
>Who was your card crush, anon?

>>7647246
no doubt

>>7647246
the incarnation of these guys >>7646252
really like all the art of dark magician girl around, though

>>7647306
attachment didn’t go through, there we go

>>7647246
The girl on change of heart was another good one.

>>7647500
i can be yuor angle or your devil

Has ic ever tried making trading cards? That could be a cool collab with sets and stuff.

>>7647616
Has /ic/ ever drawn?

OP card always looked like a man holding a flame above his head to me.

>>7644889
Modern Yugioh is trash, and not just the art. The game itself is fucking awful now.

>>7644238
/pro/ is not a skill level. Why don't /beg/tards get this?

>>7648483

moai

>>7648834
damn, I didn't know Yu-Gi-Oh invented those statues. that's so sick.

>>7648837
I assumed the card was added as another Gradius reference since they were featured in most of the games and attacked by firing donut-shaped glowing lasers from their "rock hewn lips."
>tfw no Moai stage in Gradius 5
feels bad man

>>7644032 (OP)
Because you grew up with it, cognitive bias and nostalgia are extremely powerful

>>7648897
>you grew up with it
even assuming that's true, which in fairness it likely is, what about their initial affinity? presumably there were multiple anime/shows they were exposed to in childhood, and not all of them they came to like aesthetically or in any capacity.

>>7648897
I grew up with it too. All the grade 3, 4 and 5 boys in my school had a deck and we would go over to each other'shouses after school to duel. But that's about it. A few older kids collected rae cards but nothing more. By the time I entered middle school, nobody was playing it. OP likes it so much because he's autistic. It's an autistic trait to still care about objects and things from their childood, like trains and legos.

>>7649128
>OP likes it so much because he's autistic. It's an autistic trait to still care about objects and things from their childood, like trains and legos.
but they're asking about the art specifically, not the physical cards themselves. and most people probably have *some* attachment to some media from their childhood; it's too simplistic to call it autism wholesale.

>>7648489

I think it's because the original cards had art that was supposed to be more similar to monsters brought to life from hieroglyphs and as the series moved further away from that the cards became more of an illustration. Look at this iconic card. Look at how flat it is

This one is also flat. I think it's just a matter of the cards and show moving away from their roots

pulp horror/western influences + iconography + hieroglyphic motifs = og yugioh soul

>>7649613
>>7650233
He had some pretty crazy designs.

Nostalgia, it actually looks like shit
>hurr durr there werent any procedural standards
Standards developed and exist because they work, retard.

>>7647616
I'd be up for that if someone makes a discord for it. We'd need a design for the actual card though so if there's any graphic designers interested in TCG design that would be good.

Anons could even create OC's based on the world and get a little story going if they wanted to which could contribute to some of the lore to underpin designs and whatnot.

>>7650299
>it actually looks like shit
prove it

>>7645172
Same with dating ;(
Wonder who's to blame

>>7644032 (OP)
It's the heavy use of darks, dirty shadows, less saturated colors and old anime artstyle
Of course there's also a difference in subjects, but I think that's the more important factor, since when they remake cards of old subjects they always look like shiny toys

>>7650303
They wouldn't have changed the art style if it was good

>>7652963
false dichotomy. something can go from good to better/great.

>>7652967
Yeah, but this isn't the case

>>7652366
It's because the internet puts you in competition with the best of the best. Just give it a decade when the world has embraced AI agents and skills have began to atrophy and (((they))) have begun to bump up the prices of AI tools because the world has grown dependent on them. People who have continually grown their skillsets will become invaluable artisans since retards embraced AI without any critical thinking whatsoever.

>>7652969
>>7650303

>>7645172
No you couldn't have because getting good back then was much harder, less resources, shittier programs, tablets less accessible, also you weren't born yet, you specifically

>>7652971
>>7652963

>>7652975
If you've watched the show the original intent behind why the cards look the way they do was clear and the unifying theme was strong. It's a matter of artistic vision vs what sells not of good or bad.

>>7652975
>I acknowledged my false dichotomy, but I'm just gonna reaffirm it
we gotta a professor of logic here, presumably from the university of science

>>7652979
>>7652963

>>7652981
>>7652969

>>7652982
>Looks for art discussion threads
>Tries to derail them
Some life you're living faggot. I wish there was a tracker for how much time you've wasted on this site if this is your idea of entertainment

>>7652983
>assertion, no proof

>>7652985
>>7652963

>>7652990
>assertion, no proof

>>7652973
>tablets less accessible
This is BS, tablets (at least screen less ones) were just as accessible as pen and paper

Can we at least post sweet monsters while we argue about gay shit?
>>7650302
That's along the lines of what I was thinking. The only issue is that I think designing spell cards would be the funnest part and to do that we would need rules.

>>7653294
Also, I play this spell card face down.

>>7646224
I loved all those ancient Egypt/mummies ones
>>7653303
not fooling me, that's a trap card

>>7644032 (OP)
I have always been obsessed with all the Lightsworns.

My favorite magic card from the game back then. I know the design is a censorship but I think is better than the og egypcian cross.

>>7656336
>the design is a censorship
wut lol

>>7656336
wtf is this supposed to be?
A sword?
And what do swords have to do with reincarnation wtt was the artist on drugs when he was commissioned to design that card

>>7658474
It was an ankh originally I think, but the censors didn't like that so now it's some retarded crystal sword

>>7658508
It's still a cool looking spell nonetheless.

>>7656308
person who drew that is 100% a furry

>>7648897
I never played yugioh but these are way more pleasant than contemporary "industry" art which looks so fucking soulless unironically

>>7648467
Nothing is a skill level, it's all subjective trash dreamed up by "artists" that hate artists

>>7645172
A lot of the concept art guys got that job because they were the only guys on their game making teams who could draw at all
Insane how different things are in just 30 years

>>7645172
>>7660215
Just make your own game? It's the easiest that it has ever been.

>>7660217
Shut up kike

>>7647246

>>7662735
Or

>>7646252
The bold shading and linework definitely had something to do with it.