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Hi all,

I had to put on hold this project for a while, but this time i really would like to print it.

Please find the concept for the court card.

the characther are submerged by water, the reflection of their costumes compose their pip.

I hope you like it

So very glad to see this deck back on the drawing board

Honeybee wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:12 pm So very glad to see this deck back on the drawing board

+1

Dear all, please find another court card, this time is the queen of diamonds.

I was interested in print the cart with cartamundi, I thought that being in Europe it could be easier to see prototypes and to be assisted in the file preparation, but I'm not sure.

I've seen on their site that in this moment they don't take new orders, do you know when they will?

Reveur wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:03 pm Dear all, please find another court card, this time is the queen of diamonds.

I was interested in print the cart with cartamundi, I thought that being in Europe it could be easier to see prototypes and to be assisted in the file preparation, but I'm not sure.

I've seen on their site that in this moment they don't take new orders, do you know when they will?

No one knows currently when they'll start taking new orders. They have a very large backlog to start going through, and as far as I've seen reporting of, they haven't begun on those yet.

Why have you been creating 2 way Courts when none of the other cards are 2 way?

What is with the ball on the QoD - or is that the background floating across the card

Hi,

As you have said, the ball on the queen is part of the background.

Then, about the court card concept, I have to say that I don't consider them as properly two way card, but if you look better, they are mirrored, as they were immerged in water.

I have started designing these card with a classic two way court card with very ornate clothes, once I have finished with them I've started with the numbers, but the project became different, and i liked this new minimalistic direction more than the style I used for the court, so I've decided to redraw them trying to figure out How I coul give the same small "!" moment that transformation playing cards create in viewers, but having a different approach.

Then i had this vision of reflecting charachter that in some way remind the two way traditional card, but that allowed me to represent the pips, as the result of the dress reflected on water.

I'll show you one of the first court card I've designed, I could maybe use it for another project.

Forget my misgivings about the courts 'appearing to be' 2 way - I appreciate how they form the pip
And I do like them. I guess I am just unsure as to how they gel with the style of the also beautiful number cards

I love the current deck as is, but there is also a lot of cool potential in that original design. I've decided I'm not a fan of "blue line" court faces though when the rest of the design is so colorful even though it mirrors the traditional courts.

I have been thinking about this deck and I think there are 2 totally different decks to be made
Do a water mirroring deck/project like the wonderful courts you have shown us (with number cards appropriate to such a concept)
Do a semi transformation deck/project in the style of the earlier fantastic one way number cards that you have shown

I respectfully disagree with the honeybee. I like how the mirroring gives the courts a distinction from the number cards.

Thank you very much for your advice and feedbacks, it help me a lot.

I've reflected a lot on the transformation cards and about the possibility to extend the concept to the court card and about the challenge of incorporating the pips into a card with a different layout.

How many pips I have to integrate? and if i manage to incorporate them how i differianciate them from the aces?

These were just a few of the many questions I was trying to give an answer. trough the creative process.

In the end, I've decided to incorporate them in a different and consistent manner across all court cards: depicting these carachter in water and creating the pip using a reflected detail of their clothes.

Additionally, I believe that the iconography references the traditional reflected cards but with a small twist.

And the fact that at first glance you thought they were classical double side cards and not mirrored, encouraged me to think that the reference work well.

please find a king of clubs