India is home to the most enthusiastic cricket fans on the planet, while enthusiasm for art is as yet bound to a niche crowd. Earlier, innovation and art were viewed as two different fields, ‘cricket art’ is making ready for a blend of the two. With fantasy sports, particularly fantasy cricket, becoming well known in India, the in-game resources or NFTs are giving another material to maturing artists as game cards.

As of late, a few young artists worked together with the digital sports collectables gaming platform Striker, supported by the esports organization Mobile Premier League (MPL), which is involving digital cricket art as in-game assets on its platform. The specialists are not just displaying their digital art to a bigger crowd yet have likewise adapted their work successfully.

Artists Raaj Rufaro, Pakhi Verma, Midhundas KS, Vishnu Venu, Christhika Lakshmi and Najeeb Thottungal came up to make a digital art series as game cards, encapsulating some of the legends of cricket on their canvas. They effectively used art and innovation, utilizing stylised treatments to make fan art depicting the legends of cricket. Considering that fan art appreciates colossal reverberation with youngsters, and fantasy sports is a developing class in India, this is probably going to have numerous takers.

Najeeb Thottungal, one of the artists, expressed, “Working with Striker was a huge leap in learning for me. Not only did I get better insights into character anatomy but also a deeper understanding of other aspects of illustrations such as lighting, shadows, rendering, materials, etc.”

Striker involves these digital cricket artworks as game cards. Other than utilizing these game cards to make their fantasy cricket team and play fantasy cricket matches, players can offer them in the marketplace to earn monetary amounts. The application utilizes blockchain innovation to check ownership for NFTs.

Cricket art holds extraordinary potential and associations like this show commitment to the sector. These fine arts can be art collectables for cricket fans. Another artist, Raaj Rufaro, said, “Using cricket art as game cards is a brilliant idea that will empower artists like us and revolutionise the way we monetise art.”

Credit: Financial Express