A cursed lock illustration for Arcana Resurgence, an urban fantasy card game.
For this illustration we needed something to make the player feel trapped. I gathered rim lock references and thought about ways to make it seem magically rigged, like a curse. I painted a brass-like material with a lion’s open mouth as the keyhole. The knob has collapsed, and the lock has cracks.
As a final touch, I made a set of chains in Blender and retouched them in Krita. My first idea was to use a simple chain brush, but I thought using a 3D model would add more detail and movement to the scene.
All my Arcana Resurgence cards.
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