Digital / vector template ← Back to the deck Prints one figure per Letter page at true drawing size (6.8″ × 3.7″ frame). Draw, scan at 600 DPI, send.

✎ Pocket Buddhas — Hand-Drawn Template

These pages print the art window at a comfortable drawing size — much larger than the finished card. That's on purpose: drawing big and shrinking down keeps every line crisp, and gives room for fine detail by hand.

Why draw large? A pixel image can be scaled down with no loss, but never up without blur. So we work big and reduce. Each frame here is 6.8″ × 3.7″; the finished card art is only about 2.2″ × 1.2″ — so a 600-DPI scan of your drawing gives roughly 4000 × 2200 px, far more than the ~1300 × 700 px the print needs. Plenty of headroom.
Workflow
  1. Print these pages at 100% / Actual Size (not "fit to page," or the scale changes).
  2. Draw the figure inside the frame. Keep faces, hands, and held objects within the dashed safe area — the outer edge can be trimmed by the card's rounded corners.
  3. The corner marks are the true edges of the art window — align your scan/crop to them.
  4. Scan at 600 DPI (grayscale for ink, color for paint). Crop to the corner marks.
  5. Send a PNG or TIFF — it drops straight into the card, no resizing. A transparent or plain background is ideal; the card adds its own aura and border.

One frame per page follows. Skip any figure you're not drawing.