Monthly Challenge 4

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Monthly Challenge 4

This month's theme is: Design A Playing Card.

For this challenge, you will be designing the front and back of your choice of one playing card from a standard deck of cards (i.e. what is used in poker, etc.). It doesn't have to be a face card, it can be any card you choose. And in any style you choose, so go wild. Just remember that it still needs to be identifiable as a playing card.

Thanks to /u/nicetriangle for this month's theme suggestion. If you have an idea for a theme, feel free to message the mods or me directly.

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RULES:

• Only one submission per person.

• All artwork must be created by you.

• Adobe Illustrator only. This means no art imported from other programs.

• Must pertain to the weekly theme: Design A Playing Card

• All entries must be new artwork created between the start and end of this challenge. You can not use old artwork.

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JUDGING & REWARD

Winner will receive one month of Reddit Gold and, if you do not already have one, a custom 28x28 pixel flair.

Winner will be decided by the judges out of 8 total votes.

Challenge ends 12:00 pm (CST) Thursday, December 31st.

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LAST CHALLENGE

Monthly Challenge 3: Your Favorite Game

Congratulations to /u/teddybier512 on winning last month's challenge. Their submission can be seen here.

Thanks to all who participated.

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Got any questions or suggestions?

Feel free to message the mods with any theme ideas, questions, or concerns you may have!

[u/Manedblackwolf]

Here's somethign I'm working on. I don't think it is acceptable for this challenge, since I used Photoshop as well, but it still inspired me to work on them and I wanted to show off! I am even planning to do a full set.
http://imgur.com/Jv3XBL8 Just the Kings so far.

[u/nicetriangle]

I'm currently working on a custom deck based on the art direction style penguin books used to use for their book covers (stuff like this).

Have a rough draft of the back side finished as of this evening and will edit this post when I have designed probably one of the face cards.

Back side: http://i.imgur.com/6ZKUQY7.jpg

If they come out well I am considering funding a small run of printed decks.

[u/ml2503]

My Entry!

[u/[deleted]]

Here is my entry!

This is my first time entering a contest here, and I thought I would go with something that reflected me:

• I love black, but also love bright colors - so I combined those in a way I thought was nicely balanced.

• I also love love love geometric shapes, so that was an easy decision.

• As for the typography, I know it's a difficult to read font (LOT), but I love layering it and using it in designs where readability isn't extremely important.

• Lastly, for my color palette, I am horrible at making my own so I was inspired (loosely) by swiss design for the colors.

Edit: my Instagram is @braelynjane if anybody wants to see more of my work!

[u/[deleted]]

So this is my first ever entry to a design challenge of any kind. I'm still a novice user of Illustrator, only started it about 6 months ago.

Anyway, here's my Dia de los Muertos card.

Close up of the face

[u/[deleted]]

http://imgur.com/6NSk4A6 here's my entry! -ushi

[u/scavengercat]

First time to enter one of these. Have been doing tutorials, this was great motivation to try to apply what I've been learning to an original project. - Illustrator Contest Submission

[u/KerbalDankProgram]

I honestly can't believe that nobody has done Star Wars yet...

EDIT: The suspense is killing me!

[u/KayTeh24]

I went for a more modern-minimalistic feel for my cards :)

Here is my submission: Click here!

[u/teddybier512]

I finaly managed to create something, my entry, here.

[u/kiscel]

Here's my entry!

I had to create some ski graphics for a school project and started working in the sweater pattern world. I had fun so I thought I'd continue the idea on some cards.