Well I did say I encourage frank commentary. Everyone has a passion, I am just now learning the qualities of this genre that bring that passion to the forefront.

In terms of moving the project from Bridged sized to Poker (or American Poker, seems to be two poker standards) is sadly moot as it is already launched and advertised as such. So the best I can do for this project, is to clean up the indices, and hunt up another quote or two to see if the other companies fall into my budget.

I have, however, been incorporating small things via the feedback such as the comments on the jokers needing to be red and black. I overlooked that detail and have now fixed it. Thank you.

I had originally planned not to do another card deck. I thought I would do just this one, something for my friends to play with and to get my art out into the world.
But with all this feedback and encouragement not to mention the fuss between Bridge and Poker sizes, it has got me thinking of another deck idea with a cleaner design as well as Poker sized.
The goal is not to make a living design cards, as I doubt I can truly do that. But I feel I need to do it one more time, to do it right, to prove to myself that I can.

So while this project is underway I'll take a few days, work up a prototype. I will post them in another thread and then we'll see where the passions lie.

Jeff

Well thank you for having me.

I have been a dev and an artist for a very long time, so I have learned to never take comments personal. In fact I encourage frank commentary as it helps improve the project a great deal.

The budget is strictly to get the cards printed with as little fuss as possible. The plan is to sell the extra decks at conventions like Phoenix Comic Con, where I live, and others. To be honest, I never thought of this as a business but rather as something fun that my friends have been requesting I do. So based on my numbers it should all work out, BUT I have been known to be wrong.

I chose the bridge size as it fit the aspect ratio of the prints best without too much tweaking of the art. I work in vectors so scale was not an issue going from an 11x17” to a 2x3.5”. As this is my first card deck, my choices were all based on the art and not the function, however anything that makes the product better, I am willing to look into.

The font (indices? still learning the terms) is the result of me taking so long from going from print to card. The font on the prints did not offer numeral s, which I discovered much later, and so as I was resizing I had to hunt down a font the looked similar and would work. My goal in the resizing was to remained faithful to the ordinal prints. Based on your suggestions, I have much to learn and I need to relook at the cards if I get funded so they will be clear and easy to use and read. Something coming at this as a pure art project I had not considered.

Thank you very much for this insight and suggestions  I am excited as I move forward to improving the cards.