After everything up to this point, I am really proud of the evolution of the inlay design so far. I was looking at the chip set as a whole over the weekend and I liked it a lot but it felt like it was missing something. It's about to get a little deep here and I apologize in advance...
I realized after a moment or two that the chips all looked great but that they were missing the personal element. I've been so deep into looking at spot pattern matching and progression and color overlap and combinations that I've been unable to see the forest for the trees.
The main reason I started down this road was to have a set to play with both poker crew and family and the family part felt like it wasn't there. I am struggling to find the right way to say it but it all felt cold and impersonal to a degree.
When I'm playing with my family, I want to be able to tell them which chips were inspired by them and how. When my poker crew is playing, I want to be able to tell them stories about the people that mean the most to me and that I am the most proud of.
So I went back down to bare bones on a lot of these chips and came up somewhere that feels like good looking chips that also represent a lot of me as a person and my family as a whole.
I'll be sharing the new chips, one post at a time in the next short while, while also laying out some of my reasoning behind the choices I've made, ending up with the posting of the full set together.
Thanks again to everyone here for all of the help, feedback, messages and suggestions. They all helped get me to this point and to something I feel pretty proud of.
I also apologize in advance if this feels too self-indulgent or too personal for a chip forum post, but since it's important to me I thought it might be worth sharing it all here, where I have made so many new friends in such a short time.
Alright, time for some chip designs!!