KOI POND is a light strategy card game I designed early in 2013. I knew I would be self-publishing this game through a print-on-demand printers, so my budget for art was quite minimal. I decided to collect public domain Japanese ink brush paintings, but I couldn't find any that met my specific needs. That being the case, I did the next best thing: Fake it in Photoshop! I mixed up watercolor textures, paper backgrounds, and vector shapes. See the video for my process.
