Showing posts with label Barry Lyons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barry Lyons. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Video on how to make a custom in MS Paint

Here is my first attempt to make a video on how to make a custom card using MS Paint (mainly) and GIMP. It is fairly long and detailed, but if you stick with me on it, I will show you how to make a 1991 Donruss card, and using the skills from making it, you should be able to make a good number of other cards by cutting out photos and using templates. I would appreciate any feedback on the video as well as any other questions or ideas for future videos. Hope this helps some new guys create some customs, and feel free to share ones you make on the Facebook Custom Cards Group page.  Also, if there are any issues or improvements I can make to the video, I'd love to hear. Here is the finished card that I made on the video, a 1991 Donruss Barry Lyons.

Thanks for checking out my latest post.
-Jeremy



Saturday, June 24, 2017

Barry Lyons project: 1986

While on vacation, I had the chance to meet former MLB catcher Barry Lyons. He was nice enough to sign some custom cards for me and enjoyed seeing the customs that I made, especially the White Sox one. I decided to try to finish his career run of cards from every major brand, starting with 1986 sets. I plan to post every year, and if I can figure out how to do it, I would love to make a cards start to finish while explaining each step and somehow video it and basically make a post/video on how to make a custom in MS Paint. Perhaps if I need to I'll show some things I do in GIMP and try to give tips on how to do certain steps while making a custom. I'm not the best at making customs, but with the Facebook Custom Cards Page growing like crazy, I have noticed a good number of people wanting to get tips on how to make customs, and I am happy to share what I know. With that being said, here are the 1986 Barry Lyons cards.

1986 DONRUSS


1986 FLEER UPDATE


 1986 TOPPS TRADED
Thanks for checking out my latest customs.
-Jeremy