Finally had some time to make some updates. Thoughts?

Here's another attempt. The color of the K,Q,J, and A letters share Red/Black colors while the pips are still 4 colors. I still need to redo the numbered cards with this design but I have the court cards updated so far. Thoughts?

Hi Don,

Thanks for the reply. You make a lot of great points. I agree that maybe I do need to focus on making these a great poker deck with Tarot inspiration rather than an actual Tarot/Poker combo deck. I might throw in a few bonus major arcana cards in place of the extra cards that come in decks and leave it at that. Using this style I can create a separate Tarot deck in the future but my main goal for this project has been to create a poker deck and the Tarot theme is just what I wanted to use for inspiration and the theme.

As for the 4 color suits. I'm really on the fence about this one. I really like how they look but I understand what you're saying about the audience and that I need to think about what kind of audience I'm trying to make this deck for. Here's super rough mock-up of red/black to see how it could look.

Thanks again for the through response! Also here's an updated picture with some more updates to the court cards:


 

Hey all,

I've been working on a deck of cards. Still trying to flesh out the main theme I want to go for but right now its sort of based on Tarot cards. Spades, Clubs, Hearts, and Diamonds are also Swords, Wands, Cups, and Pentagrams respectively like in a tarot deck. There's also 4 colors instead of 2. The idea is for this deck to also be the minor arcana of a tarot deck and later I can design a "major arcana expansion" deck that when combined with this deck would make it into a full tarot deck. The major arcana card in a tarot deck are the ones with names like "The Magician", "The Fool", "Death", "Justice", etc. The minor arcana are the 4 suits with the Ace, 2-10, and the court cards so that would be this deck. Maybe even will include a couple Major arcana as the Joker cards. Like "The Fool" and "Death" cards since most playing card decks have 2 jokers anyways.

I'm also playing around with a duality idea of each of the court cards having slightly different sides. One being normal and the other side being a bit rough or unkempt. This would make them not perfectly symmetrical which would also be good for using them as Tarot cards since a card being upside down means something different than if it is turned right side up. That's one of the reasons I went with the current diamond pip design that isn't symmetrical top to bottom.

Anyways, I'm rambling on now. So what do you think? Any critiques or suggestions on the design?

TL;DR - I'm designing a deck of cards. What do you think?

Here's what I got so far for the rest of the cards. What do you guys think? It's probably hard to see so you may wanna download the picture with the dropbox link to be able to zoom in more clearly.

Note these are not complete. Still a work in progress.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dc3rfnny5cqg372/Sheet%20Deck%20Poster%202.png

I still need to think of a name for this deck but I've been working on it for quite some time now. I think the hardest part is doing the faces and the hands... Does anyone have any feedback on what I've got so far?