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Re: El Recuerdo Playing Cards

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The artist's command of faces is really quite awesome.
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Very interested in this project, being Mexican-American myself. The artwork looks very good and I can't wait to see the final product!
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Beautiful illustrations! The characters look great and I love all the detail around them :)
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Some progress...
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Looking great!
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Lovin' that Queen of hearts
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Sooo, just curious.. anymore progress with this deck?
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I would also like to know what's been going on with this deck. Excited to see the final product.

Also, that Queen of Spades reminds me of Ana Cheri. Beautiful!
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Here is the first deck from the series. Please share your thoughts about the design.
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It's a good looking box, given that the gold areas are going to have foil in them.

I would like to see more of the courts in color and also the Aces and the Jokers. This looks like a great project so far.
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Classy tuck. I too would like to see colored courts, aces, jokers, and pip layouts...you know, everything. :D
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RichK wrote:Classy tuck. I too would like to see colored courts, aces, jokers, and pip layouts...you know, everything. :D
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Thank you! Here is some progress!
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Looking fantastic!!

Also would like to see some color :)

As a side note: I do hope that you are not considering NPCC for these as you did for your Golden Age deck! The Golden Age deck is fantastic, one of the best in my collection, only diminished by the poor printer company.
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This deck is really coming along and it looks great. I can't wait to see the suit of Diamonds. I really like the tuck box as well
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Diamonds suits.
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All suits cards.
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I love this artwork, I beg you to consider a different printer though...

Cartamundi USPCC EPCC LPCC. just not NPCC. Artwork this good deserves higher quality printing that NPCC can provide.
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Would *love* to see a colored in version. :)
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The artwork is fantastic! I have to agree with a previous post about using a different card printer....
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Hello to everyone!
This is the first card in color. And some close up.
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Hm. I suspect others may have been envisioning a fuller palette when they were clamoring to see colors earlier, but I think preserving the lineart in as high a contrast as possible is the right way to go here. I would like to see her with a spot color - just one: I'm thinking a low-saturation, watercolor red-brown on the rose and scarf, perhaps painted in somewhat roughly.

I don't care for the skulls opposite the indices; I think drawing the eye to them when they've been used as a design element in so many other recent decks may turn people off. But I'm just anti-skull in general so I may be in the minority there.
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Skulls feel a little random indeed, I agree with not having full color artwork, It looks really good as line work and adding too much color would really ruin that. That said the current choice of color makes it look a lot like currency, a dollar bill anyway.

Also agree with the random sugar skulls in the corners being very out of place. I like the idea of something being there and color wise its nice, but maybe something else?
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Agree with comments. Skulls are random unless I am missing the theme entirely. Also I do not think that the font and suit markers match the feel of the rest of the card shown.

I am enormously impressed (as always) with your artwork, however, and the rest of the composition is spot on
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Love the look of this! I really like the font and pip design myself. I also love that you are keeping the line art. I'm ambivalent about the skulls, but that pop of color in those corners is what I'm not sure about.
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I would love to see some more color, but I am coming around. The line art is fantastic. I would hate for any coloration that would detract from it. I am fine with the skulls given the theme of the deck. I like that it is not the focal point of the deck.
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Some update.
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The Mayan numerals are an excellent choice to take the place of the skulls in the previous versions! Well done.
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Merlebird wrote:The Mayan numerals are an excellent choice to take the place of the skulls in the previous versions! Well done.
I was wondering what those were. I also noticed those other numbers on the courts. I know they signify the start and the end of the Mexican War of Independence, but they do not allow the courts to be 2-way. I just don't think they belong there; I think it's just too much and would be better to remove them. Perhaps dedicate an "ad card" to commemorate the war by having a brief summary/description of the war?

If you don't intend on making the courts 2 way, may I suggest that you make the courts similar to "The House of the Rising Spade" courts, where instead of having 2 mirror images of the men and women of the courts you just draw the full bodies that occupy that same space.

Other than that, this is looking good!
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I really like all illustrations, it looks great. I don't like the skulls and typography - I think this font is very rough and steals attention from delicate illustrations.
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