iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm theorizing this style for key-art on spell cards. I can't paint 250 cards to full quality, but these took like 30minutes each and that feels reasonable. I think they'll need color but I kinda like the loose feel. #solodev #gamedev #charcoal #tcg #art #cardart #indiedev #noai #handmade #humanmade

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

with an eye that big, her head is effectively just a case for the eye. I wonder where else her brain would be? Obviously it would need to be someplace for the left and right hemisphere to be near each other, but still protected. Hmm..

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Ok, here is one. Well, I think it looks pretty, at least.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

After a lot of soul searching I scrapped the skill entirely and replaced it with something completely new and novel. It was the only skill in the game that grants you access to more than 2 actions a turn. I think even if it didn't go infinite it would have been the most broken ability in the game.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Really close! It takes 1 action to make a clone leaving you with 1 action and the new the clone gets 2 actions. It can then make a new clone since it counts as you. You get infinite clones who get infinite actions and play your whole deck. Ahhhhh! I didn't know how I missed it until this point.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Honestly, that conversation would help them grow as an individual and be less shitty going forward.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A little experiment with a fairly unconventional art style for card-frame art. Probably not good enough as is, but its giving me some ideas. For the next playtest, it will do. #art #acrylic #pouredpaint #abstractart #cardart #cardgames #noai #humanmade #handmade #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

a specialized playing card for a card game featuring some physical poured paint art as the background

an acrylic poured painting with lots of white bubbles, teal streaks and pinks and purples mixed in

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Oh no. This thing goes infinite with itself. Took a month to get the cards from the printer and I haven't even fully unpacked the box when I noticed this. 💀 Do you see it? #gamebalance #tcgs #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #cardgames #noai #ttrpgs #rpgs #homemade #handmade

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Species cards are cooking (print guide included). These are for co-op / solo dungeon crawling. Next step is all the paper art. Front, back and "key art" (key art will fill that big blank area). In case you missed the joke here: Devils are Nimby's. #cardesign #ttrpgs #indiedev #solodev #tcgs

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

He's a dumbass and I don't feel bad saying it.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

OLD white bastards in power. That's easily the most important part. Annoying they're considered unemployable anywhere else. Its weird grandpa is too old to man the deep fryer but we're happy to give him the nuclear codes. I'm sorry, what the hell?

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Roughly 40 hours for a single piece of card art. I've scrapped so many pieces of art over the years for this project, but this one stays. Player card back, full process. You can understand why I'm hostile to AI. #art #painting #noai #handmade #humanmade #cardart #tcgs #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Check out Gamefound. That might be a bit better than kickstarter for this.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This one feels particularly powerful.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thanks! It's a long road, but we'll make it to the end as long as we're too stubborn to quit. Probably not to become millionaires but definitely to something we can be proud of.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Full color cards for the first time on this project. Feels nice. Now I need to wrangle my friends to play. #cardart #cardgames #noai #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #prototype

A handful of playing cards with some displaying the front and others displaying the back.

Another handful of cards displaying the fronts and backs.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Not a bad idea. I wonder if i can compact it down but still be understandable. right now I'm just explaining to play testers they need to pick which feels sloppy.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Paper prototype arrived! It feels like Christmas! This is 4 copies of the player card library so I'll need to sort, split and sleeve them. Rulebook is small enough to fit in a deck box now and the custom dice are going to be seeing their first test run. #playtest #noai #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

A prototype card game arriving from the factory still in production packaging.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This tracks with how I paint with physical media, too. Usually it's just 2 brushes for everything.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Can you imagine being the construction crew tasked with building that house? "Ma'am..a strong breeze would topple this, magic or not. How did you even pull permits for this?"

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Needed to spill over some rules text to the back of a specialty card...and found the perfect use for one of my old paintings! Waste not, want not...right? #art #watercolor #cardart #cardgames #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

Card back with a small blurb of rules text explaining the various levels of fatigue. Features a depressed goddess-like character with her hair turning to stone and her body becoming a galaxy.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The set could probably last a lifetime. It's wild how far a little can go. I got the complete double box version and I honestly feel like I'll be handing it down to my kids.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Or a solvent if you're using an alcohol based ink.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

You can always just run clean water through at the end of your session.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Oh wow, Oscar myers getting headshot by a stray bullet here.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I still haven't nailed the "reflections reflecting reflections" part of this card back. Harder than I thought. #art #illustration #chrome #scifi #tentacles #skulls #watercolor #postercolor #cardart #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #cardgames #tcgs

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

8 years and counting designing a card game. Same energy. 💀

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

That's a really cool technique! When I use gouache it never looks like yours. I guess I can't resist the urge to start blending because the paint is so forgiving with it.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

What are you painting these in? Gouache? Poster color? Feels almost cell shaded.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Watercolor with salt is one of those things that seeing it in person is always better. Believe it or not this too is for the card game. Colored backgrounds for card faces Physical art just hits different #art #watercolor #cardgames #indiedev #solodev #handmade #gamedev #noai #boardgames #abstract

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hard to do, or hard to make yourself do? The second one is considerably harder to solve, sadly.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

That feels like an apt analogy of what he is doing to our country right now.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Its so clear this cat is driving to work. Just pain and suffering.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Understanding why and wanting to change is the biggest step along the journey.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Looks small based on the linen grain. I would guess like 10in squared? Hard to tell but its definitely small.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

You'd be hard pressed to find any war throughout history where this wasn't the case. Education was always a weapon of the elite/ruling classes while the poor / ignorant were equipped with pointy sticks and forced to kill and die.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I don't think you understand what that word means.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In all fairness I don't think Trump cares about any of that. He pretends so he can maintain power and be praised/worshipped. A lot of evil leaders of the past had a vision and wanted something for their country. Not Trump. He would happily burn america to the ground for praise.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Been working on this project for 8 years (learning as I go and too stubborn to quit) and in that time I've added Easter eggs to honor a few close friends into the game. I lost touch with a few and encountering the specific cards makes me feel sad, now. I miss 'em. Anyhow, cat tax. 😮‍💨

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I've been watching your sketches for a while now and I'm convinced you need to storyboard a Pixar film or something.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Its an easy task for an actual artist so I love this.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Well my issue with the statement is this is a global problem. sooperbooks.com/news/article... its kind of murky but social media and screen time in general seem to have a strong correlation to the dip in literacy. But it also correlates with the global dip in fertility rates so...yea, murky.

sooperbooks.com

Literacy rates are plummeting globally—children aren’t reading

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

woof, if anything ever needed a citation it's that.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Yoo that's some fantastic use of contrast to draw attention! Well done!

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

As long as they do it, that's what matters.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This is really pushing what watercolor can do. Just wild.

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George Lubinski @perfectpencil.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Oh look, it's the same joke from the right, yet again. I'm sure eventually it'll be funny; they just need to keep trying.

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