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My first ATC (thelemmy.club)
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I recently discovered the ArtistTradingCards format and idea. This is my first watercolor attempt at making one! I hope there gets to be a lemmy community for such cards at some point

A small, rectangular piece of watercolor paper, the size of a trading card. On it, a watercolor painting of a building, roughly three levels tall, plus a few trees, and a low wall. The building is mostly in beige, brown, and yellow colors, with balconies on the left, with a red roof and some antennae on the chimneys.
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[–] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

Please elaborate on this format.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 hours ago

    The explanation in a sibling comment looks great: https://www.tinteddy.com/introduction-to-atcs-what-are-artist-trading-cards

    Another one I saw before, kinda official FAQ of the relevant subreddit, is at: https://jenivievedesign.substack.com/p/artist-trading-cards-etiquette-101

    Another cool one I saw is the zine about ATCs: https://www.betty-draws.de/2026/07/15/atc-zine-07-2026

    In shortest words, it's hand-made cards you do in 2.5x3.5in size (6.4x8.9cm) in any medium you like. (It's a standard "trading cards" size, like Pokemon or MTG or baseball cards in the USA, so you can easily store them in plastic sleeved catalogs.) You can then swap them with other artists, in person or over the internet, or just keep them for yourself. They are not to be sold (if you want to sell, you mark them as ACEO rather than ATC, it's the same size but a different, adjacent community and idea). There are online (and I think also offline) communities for swapping or just showing your collection.

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