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Title: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: Levent Suberk on May 27, 2015, 01:27:18 PM

Karagöz is traditional Turkish shadow theatre. I started to design a deck about it.

King of hearts.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: variantventures on May 27, 2015, 02:04:58 PM

I like this idea and look forward to seeing more.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: Levent Suberk on May 27, 2015, 03:43:29 PM

Thanks for comment.

Ten of clubs sketch.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: Levent Suberk on May 27, 2015, 07:00:11 PM

I changed letter. Shadows are more subtle and white hearts on banner added.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: Don Boyer on May 28, 2015, 01:37:14 AM

I like this far better than the Red Bicycle project you've been working on.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: Levent Suberk on May 28, 2015, 06:03:19 PM

Don, thank you for comment.

Three cards. I changed letters.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: Levent Suberk on May 29, 2015, 01:49:53 PM

Seven of spades of Karagöz playing cards.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: Levent Suberk on June 04, 2015, 05:18:13 PM

Sketches.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: Levent Suberk on June 05, 2015, 04:16:50 PM

Sketches.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: The London magician on June 06, 2015, 02:13:35 PM

Wow those designs look so beautiful

I would love to see tha back design

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: Levent Suberk on June 06, 2015, 02:58:50 PM

I did not complete card back yet. These are sketches only. I'll draw figures with permanent pen and color them with water colors. I'll use A4 size cardboard to draw figures, first with pencil then ink them with permanent pen. After coloring figures drawings will be scanned in 600 dpi and transferred to PC. Cardboard is about 1/16 ins thick and matt surfaced which also used in making architecture models.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: Collector on June 09, 2015, 08:53:09 PM

IMHO:

The Queen is smaller than Jack and Kings. That's a little bit unpleasant.

Try to add proper shadows to court cards and, especially, figures in the number cards. Number cards will look more interesting. Courts will have less white space around the characters and will look also more interesting. Plus you will add even more sense to your deck in that way.

Good luck.

Title: Re: Karagöz Playing Cards Project
Post by: fireshaper on June 17, 2015, 12:48:32 AM

Are these clipart that you are using or have you actually drawn the pips/face card images? They just seem blurry and the edges don't seem very smooth in some parts.