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Design & Development / Sharing Some Stuff
« on: June 20, 2015, 07:43:32 AM »
I've done some designs of playing cards over the years. I plan to resume working on them and finally finish them this year. I'm posting samples below, accompanied by short descriptions. I'd appreciate to receive feedback on them.
I'm looking into exploring crowdfunding sites to fund their printing. Would have wanted to use Kickstarter but I'm based in the Philippines, so I can't. A friend said I should try looking for a business partner or something - and maybe I'll look into that (ever encountered a scenario like this?). At the very least, there's always the Game Crafter to fall back on.
Golden Court
Something I did almost 10 years ago. I wanted it to have a medieval feel, and with a warm glow and color scheme reminiscent of leather-bound books. I didn't finish it because back then i didn't know how to get it printed. And I didn't like how I drew the figures. I also couldn't figure out how to execute the suits back then (I've only added the small suits in the sample image earlier today). I'm planning to revamp the figures and finish the deck. Some other samples of the pips can be found here (albeit without the small suit symbols in the corners yet): http://playingcardcollector.net/2013/02/03/playing-card-art-by-blue-fusion/
Sa Baranggay
The them is Colonial Philippines. I've finished the line art of the courts. The images in the samples show some possible final looks for the deck. I originally intended the pips to have an embroidered look. It works fine with the black suits - I'm just not entirely confident with the red ones (like, should I just do them in red and white?).
Master Graven
I've recently finished a Tarot deck done in the same style and wanted to see if I can adapt it to Lenormand and playing card design. (the figures are actually from the Tarot deck I did. I wanted to get feedback first and then redraw them after). The goal was for the deck to look like rustic woodcuts or rough engravings, or grave rubbings - something old and medieval. My main problem right now is how to execute the red suits, given the monochromatic color scheme (row 2 shows the results of me toying around with the idea of rendering the initial and suit symbol in black and in white - though I'm leaning towards them being black based on the results). Also, "borderless" seems to be gaining popularity in tarot and Lenormand, so I thought I'd do a borderless sample (King of Spades) and get feedback for it.
PlanarenKarten
I originally intended to adapt/modify Ditha Moser's wonderful planar art designs for her whist deck so that it would be more poker-friendly (move the suits to the corners), but I'm not sure of its copyright status (it was printed over 100 years ago). So I ended up creating this instead.
I enjoy experimenting with a lot of different styles. I've a couple more other sets I've done ,but I'd like to focus on these four first and see if I can get them funded/printed (and learn from the experience!).
-Ly
I'm looking into exploring crowdfunding sites to fund their printing. Would have wanted to use Kickstarter but I'm based in the Philippines, so I can't. A friend said I should try looking for a business partner or something - and maybe I'll look into that (ever encountered a scenario like this?). At the very least, there's always the Game Crafter to fall back on.
Golden Court
Something I did almost 10 years ago. I wanted it to have a medieval feel, and with a warm glow and color scheme reminiscent of leather-bound books. I didn't finish it because back then i didn't know how to get it printed. And I didn't like how I drew the figures. I also couldn't figure out how to execute the suits back then (I've only added the small suits in the sample image earlier today). I'm planning to revamp the figures and finish the deck. Some other samples of the pips can be found here (albeit without the small suit symbols in the corners yet): http://playingcardcollector.net/2013/02/03/playing-card-art-by-blue-fusion/
Sa Baranggay
The them is Colonial Philippines. I've finished the line art of the courts. The images in the samples show some possible final looks for the deck. I originally intended the pips to have an embroidered look. It works fine with the black suits - I'm just not entirely confident with the red ones (like, should I just do them in red and white?).
Master Graven
I've recently finished a Tarot deck done in the same style and wanted to see if I can adapt it to Lenormand and playing card design. (the figures are actually from the Tarot deck I did. I wanted to get feedback first and then redraw them after). The goal was for the deck to look like rustic woodcuts or rough engravings, or grave rubbings - something old and medieval. My main problem right now is how to execute the red suits, given the monochromatic color scheme (row 2 shows the results of me toying around with the idea of rendering the initial and suit symbol in black and in white - though I'm leaning towards them being black based on the results). Also, "borderless" seems to be gaining popularity in tarot and Lenormand, so I thought I'd do a borderless sample (King of Spades) and get feedback for it.
PlanarenKarten
I originally intended to adapt/modify Ditha Moser's wonderful planar art designs for her whist deck so that it would be more poker-friendly (move the suits to the corners), but I'm not sure of its copyright status (it was printed over 100 years ago). So I ended up creating this instead.
I enjoy experimenting with a lot of different styles. I've a couple more other sets I've done ,but I'd like to focus on these four first and see if I can get them funded/printed (and learn from the experience!).
-Ly
