This week the assignment was to design some cards for a game called 'The Wall'. We were to design the card back (the first picture), a damage card, a reinforcement card and a wall card (last picture). I was trying to create cards that would be fun for a card game. The card back is a picture of a wall taken from the ruins of the Anasazi people who lived in the SW United States around 1,000 AD. Their walls are still standing so I thought it was a good example of what a wall should be. My damage card. . . well you can see damage in an armed hornet. My reinforcement card, I call him my mortar man. He is able to mix up mortar in no time flat - a good thing to have around a rock wall. The wall itself has some structure - a pattern of sorts.
The technical skills used were in Illustrator. I played with the pen tool a lot. I also used the paint brush a little. The other technical skills had to do with following the formatting of the card; using a full bleed for the card back and specific specs for the other cards.
How do I feel I did? I like my cards. I was very happy with the hornet as it started off as some shapes with the pen tool and evolved into the armed hornet. My mortar man is one of my favorites - I'm not sure why, I just really like the little guy.
Until next time -
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