I have envy.

Holy crap I didn't even realize that was traditional D: very nice

I guess I should clarify: the text is digital, as is the backdrop behind the badge, but the artwork itself is marker and brush pen. Thank you, though!

I love your traditional stuff!

my scanner does the same shit with bride colors

Love the expression, I heard Copics are very nice :3

may I ask how you did the edges of the text? Did you hand-paint the edges, or is it some sort of gradient fill? I notice a really nice transition of black and white on it that gives it a cool "pop-out" feel without looking too much like a generic bevel-and-emboss trick, but I'm still curious :V

The text I did do digitally, because my hand-lettering isn't very strong. The text is a combination of bevel/emboss, a drop shadow, and two gradients on the "face" of the letters. For the bevel/emboss and drop shadow, I tweaked the settings rather than just going with the normal values.

how is the edge embossing done? it just looks like there's a nice thin white outline at certain light sources, with black outside of that. I am just curious how it looks that way, because normally the bevels at that small size look ridiculous and fuzzy. Is it a custom shading curve or anti-aliasing or something like that? I mean, I'm still trying to get what the trick is exactly, cause I really like it xD

I could tell that the colors on the inside were a couple gradient fills (I like that), but the edges are what caught my attention, since I'm kinda bad at edging text logos and was curious how other people did 'em.

I can send you the PSD if you'd like.. it's a little hard for me to explain, beyond saying that I fiddled with the setting a lot to get this particular look :p

surely; plz to send a note :3