Usually during the year the students design a playing card. This year's related teacher had the students design a single card...so this year I upped the project...students had to design the King, Queen, Ace, Jack, and Joker along with the back...again, another project I wanted to give a shot, especially after seeing the samples in the September/October Communications Arts mag...and since I haven't had a chance to do something out their for a bit I've thrown my hat in the ring.
I did the sketches for all the cards but know if I show them all I will be never finish them because something will blow up or I'll get attacked by a herd of jackels...or something...I'm trying to break free from the iron grip of Freehand, which I will again tout as superior and quicker than Illustrator in a lot of ways...but I know that Freehand is a lame duck program just waiting to die...PLEASE ADOBE...put the freaking bezigon tool AND the 'cut and past inside' function into Illustrator...
And with that...the finished card...
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3 comments:
Woooow! This is absolutely spledid Brian! You really killed it with this one man!
Very nice vector (freehand) work. Awesome design. I really like the random creature and the details.
Thanks for update on the Griffin stories. Please ask whomever decides to illustrate the stories if it is cool to post the art on my blog.
Wow, these are going to rock!!!
I love this. Hmmm, perhaps a raven deck is in my future?
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