START CREATING YOUR DECK
- Using Adobe Illustrator and/or Photoshop, create original “face” cards (king, queen, and jack).
- Then, make an Ace and 3, 5, and 9 numbered cards.
- Create a back for your cards.
- Templates for a standard deck of cards (Download Here)
START CREATING YOUR DECK
- Brainstorm. Create thumbnails of possible solutions using pencil & paper.
- Pay attention to face card conventions (vertical orientation, mirror image top & bottom, placement of letter & suit, etc).
- What you choose to draw/illustrate for your king, queen, or jack is pretty wide-open as long as it has a face.
- It could be a person, animal, alien, robot, or something. It could be realistic, highly stylized, graphic, etc.
ATTENTION
- Remember that the card must look the same when held upside-down.
- How are you going to merge the upper half with the lower half?
- Look at actual playing cards to see how they do it.
GUIDELINES
- You must use a standard (western-traditional) suit.
- Since the card needs to be the same when turned upside-down, you may want to drag a guide across the middle of the card.
- The challenge is finding a clever way to unite them.
- The choice of style and techniques is entirely yours. (Well… I must approve it)
Note: Please include a layout for the back of your playing cards.
Examples:
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