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Hey all! I've found that I really enjoy making mock-ups of chips, so I thought I'd try my hand at some inlays. I thought it might be fun to practice and possibly help people with artwork down the road, so I'm asking you all to roast this design.

"Regalia" is a name I thought of a couple of years back, and I never did anything with it. My idea was to color-match the fireworks, but the rest of the design feels a little empty to me. The fireworks also seem a little on the thin side, but I figured I would post a really rough draft and let the community chime in.

I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

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Fun. Can't usually roast or provide honest feedback because feelings about customs.

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I'm not a design guy so unfortunately sometimes I can't ascertain what would work, but simply point out what's broken - sorry. But on that note - the font, nope. It's something I would use on a report in 4th grade using word art in Microsoft Draw. I think the overall style of it can work for sure, the strokes of the R remind of me resort world R. I believe it's the thickness of the lettering and the black shadowing that feel a little dated/cheap to me. But I def think it can be worked with and some small changes to make it feel modern and clean while keeping the hand written cursive feel, similar to a RW design.

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Regarding the fireworks themselves, not horrendous. They are rainbow, which would be very difficult to make feel clean, mature, sharp, focused, and somehow also difficult to make vibrant. They also look like palm trees. If palm trees is intentional, fantastic, but then you're taking from Palms and it's going to be near impossible to mix that with colors, with the fireworks, and with the working title. I'd remove the tails from looking like palm trees.

I'd start by trying 20 different iterations of fireworks to see what works and what doesn't.

Below we have customs with fireworks that look like they wrote in to chat gpt with the prompt: "Please make very expensive CPC chips that look like the American flag got a horrible stomach bug and threw up on my poker table".

It's super rough, but that's what customs are - something that the creator finds beautiful. I think the only thing these chips do well from an objective aesthetic standpoint is the fireworks (I have no clue what the red thing is on the other side) on the one side fill the inlay well. If you're going for clean and empty outside of the fireworks and name, perhaps toy with the idea of being an overhead view of the explosion or an in every direction explosion with the mid point being closer to the center of the chip.

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I don't know of other fireworks chips, but the Celebration's come to mind. I love these and would absolutely love a cash set of them. Below is a horrible photo.

I like them because of the contrast. What a serious looking chip - that is a means business no frills chip and and no frills edge spots and no frills colors - that's a pretty plain, easy to read, bolded font with a no frills denomination. All to then be filled in with the frilliest of designs, just random confetti and strings haphazardly placed of every color.

To me, the juxtaposition is banging.

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YMMV, everyone has an opinion and they're all different.
 
Also the title, "regalia".

That's difficult to pull off and you'd need an absolute all time banger design to fit well. Regalia, like almost any -lia ending word, is going to have a foreign, specifically Italian-ish/european vibe. A word ending in say in ar/er, ay/ey, etc. are all going to feel more familiar.

If sticking with Regalia, I def think the font needs to feel much more refined. I would also try to work purple and some deep blues in, as regalia is closely associated with regal/kingly/etc., and purple is historically the color of royalty.

But lots to work with! Can also check out other similar type words so closely associated with it's original latin root, or even go straight latin. You have so many options as starting points to work with. Setllarum or Casino de Stellis (of the stars), Caelestis (celestial), etc. that work well with fireworks.

One thing to note is that quite a bit of latin resembled words can have a phallic connotation. We have in a group pm noted how many people's customs are pretty phallic in nature, so it's not like it would be a big deal. And I get they're not identical, but with Regalia, genitalia is right there.....
 
Check out the fireworks effects from some whistlin' bungholes, spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers (with or without the scooter stick), or some whistlin' kitty chasers. Could make the inlay you never knew you wanted.
Good luck!
 
Art can be tough because it is so subjective. What appeals to one may be repulsive to another. For my tastes it is too simple. I would try adding some kind of background. Maybe some light pattern. See how that looks. The white space focuses the eye on the few elements that are there and when that is the case those elements need to be eye catching which for me these are not. Again art is subjective and this is just my opinion.
 

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