Karagöz Playing Cards Project

[Levent Suberk]

Karagöz is traditional Turkish shadow theatre. I started to design a deck about it.

King of hearts.

[variantventures]

I like this idea and look forward to seeing more.

[Levent Suberk]

Thanks for comment.

Ten of clubs sketch.

[Levent Suberk]

I changed letter. Shadows are more subtle and white hearts on banner added.

[Don Boyer]

I like this far better than the Red Bicycle project you've been working on.

[Levent Suberk]

Don, thank you for comment.

Three cards. I changed letters.

[Levent Suberk]

Seven of spades of Karagöz playing cards.

[Levent Suberk]

Sketches.

[Levent Suberk]

Sketches.

[The London magician]

Wow those designs look so beautiful

I would love to see tha back design

[Levent Suberk]

I did not complete card back yet. These are sketches only. I'll draw figures with permanent pen and color them with water colors. I'll use A4 size cardboard to draw figures, first with pencil then ink them with permanent pen. After coloring figures drawings will be scanned in 600 dpi and transferred to PC. Cardboard is about 1/16 ins thick and matt surfaced which also used in making architecture models.

[Collector]

IMHO:

The Queen is smaller than Jack and Kings. That's a little bit unpleasant.

Try to add proper shadows to court cards and, especially, figures in the number cards. Number cards will look more interesting. Courts will have less white space around the characters and will look also more interesting. Plus you will add even more sense to your deck in that way.

Good luck.

[fireshaper]

Are these clipart that you are using or have you actually drawn the pips/face card images? They just seem blurry and the edges don't seem very smooth in some parts.