CARD DESIGN

Game card styles from around the world

Elements:

-pictorial image

-symbols

-writing

-patterns

-design accents

-color

Abstraction

Abstraction relies on avoiding context, so we don't know what the subject was, where it was, its size, etc. We focus on the shapes, lines, surface texture, etc. 

-flat view

-close up

-shapes, lines, etc

Window Reflections

Typically black and white will help to integrate all the elements and create a cohesive, dreamlike world. 

Work close so we are in the WORLD of the reflection. Like going through the Looking Glass. 

One of my reflection images edited to have a spooky, silent film atmosphere.

Various reflection images found on-line. It helps to have a strong subject, shape, or character.

 

Environmental Portraits

 Arnold Newman's environmental portraits

Pictorial Lines

Lines that lead to a subject (lines can go across in any way, including back)

Decorative Lines (not the main subject)

Arrangement of Lines (main subject)