I'm working on a new deck of cards. Most everything is up in the air right now like (name, printer, brand, etc). I'm thinking about calling is "Eminence" because I'm really focusing on the royalty, but it's a working title.
It's going to consist of 12 custom court cards (with updated hues but still keeping a very traditional feel), custom tuck, Ace of Spades and card back. My goal with this deck is to keep to the standard parameters when designing the court cards. I want to really focus on making a very beautiful but functional deck (not so much a novelty item). I may have two versions of the deck, a black and red version and a full color version (using traditional yellows, reds, blues, and blacks).
I have 4 court cards done thus far and I'm going to try to get a card out every two days. At that rate, it will be on Kickstarter sometime later this year!
Here's the Jack of Spades:
The biggest thing for me when looking at the standard JoS was what he was holding. To me, it has always looked like he was looking in a mirror. So, I gave him a mirror, slightly modified his face, hair, and overall torso. Throughout this deck I'll try to keep a lot of the patterns that appear on the standard court cards but slightly modifying them. Of course I'm going to add a few new ones too! Again, I'm going with an updated look but a familiar feel.
Hope you guys like it!
I post all my latest card designs to Instagram first, so if you want to see things before they're posted here, please give me a follow on instagram! @vadim.smolenskiy
Maybe an orange or yellow orange to go with the black/red version?
