Mattias Adolfsson
Peter Tarka
Tang Yau Hoong
Yema Yema
Teagan White
Mercedes deBellard
I’ve drawn the bodies of three starlings tangled in poppy plants. My card was the 3 of spades, and the suit of spades has always seemed ominous and dark to me — I frequently try to depict death and decay in a beautiful way in my drawings, and took this as an opportunity to continue that. I read that spades are the equivalent of the suits of swords and leaves in other types of decks, associated with the element of air, and sometimes symbolic of sickness and disappointment. I tried to take all of these factors into consideration when choosing my subject matter, as well as to create the composition out of groups of three — three starling, three large flowers, etc.
Teagan White
Fernando Chamarelli
Carne Griffiths
Serial Cut™
Ruben Ireland
MUTI
Peter Olschinsky
I like to explore the natural world, which also means discovering the more basic make-up of humans, wether in the throws of love or hate, possessed by loss and suffering or awake in a moment of peace. The girl in ‘Four of Hearts’ hunts for lovers like prey. It won’t be until her fourth victim perishes from the wound of her loving arrow, that she’ll realise that she can’t hunt for love, but embody it with peace and kindness and allow it to find her instead.
Ruben Ireland
Musketon
Aitch
Valerie Ann Chua
Fab Ciraolo
Fernando Volken Togni
Javier Medellin Puyou
I’ve drawn a knight which holds and protects the six blades/swords which represent nobility.
Fernando Volken Togni
Tobias van Schneider
VASAVA
Muxxi
Felix LaFlamme
Krzysztof CHKN Nowak
Matt W. Moore
I got inspired by the meaning behind the 6 of Club “Messenger’s Card” – Let me quote: “All Six of Club feel an obligation toward duty and they take their responsibilities seriously. Trouble is, the 6 of Club also symbolize inertia.” Essentially Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its motion (including a change in direction) from a physics perspective. In other words, it is the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line at constant linear velocity, or to keep still. The principle of inertia is one of the fundamental principles of classical physics that are used to describe the motion of objects and how they are affected by externally applied forces. In my example I wanted to combine my love to space/universe with one of the moments of inertia, in this case showing a sphere(shell).
Tobias van Schneider
Gary Fernández
Raul Urias
El Grand Chamaco
Jthree Concepts
Anton Repponen
Carlos Lerma
I was very honored to be invited for the second time to be par of the collaborative project Playing Arts, where 54 extremely talented illustrators and designers together create a deck of playing cards. This year I got to draw 9 of Spades. I actually spent a lot of time thinking about the layout and how to position nine spade symbols in an interesting way and not to keep em flat. Here are some of the original sketches from the notebook. I didnt quite know which direction to go. I knew I wanted to have an isometric grid and play with 3 dimensions of it to position elements. First, I wanted to use shape on the number nine as a base and layout other elements around it. So I put together a grid in Photoshop and started to work around it. I also wanted to stick with just 2 colors this time too. At some point I decided to stick with a building idea and illustrate an utopian high rise apartment building that had an abandoned billboard on the roof top. I somehow saw the spades symbols as pills, so the banner shows three of them on the tongue. And number nine was treated in the other dimension/angle as a neon sign on the building, a welcome to a hotel or some other nasty joint.
Anton Repponen
Chuck Anderson
Pirecco
Bicicleta Sem Freio
Caramelaw
Hey
Lei Melendres
The idea of my project was to work with an observation drawing and making a connection with the number of my card. So, I decided to draw my hands, where the sum of the fingers results in the number nine. To erase some parts of the drawing that I did not like, I used collage with craft paper.
Pirecco
Seb Niark1
Steve Simpson
Bakea
Newfren
David Mack
Conrad Roset
I chose the Queen of hearts card because I thought that its the one that fits bettter with my style. Its very feminine, and I always like to draw female body and my muses.
Conrad Roset
Ise Ananphada
agnes-cecile
Yulia Brodskaya
Sara Blake
James White
Saturno (THE CREATTER)
Poker is a game where the details and wit are present, each person pretends to have something that basically does not have , and do not want other players to know who has, or otherwise. With this work what I understand , in this case, is that the monster could not impersonate authentic king , however great the crown, it is not a king, is a monster who only thinks about eating and drooling.
Saturno (THE CREATTER)
Iain Macarthur
Mr. Kone
Andreas Preis
Jordan Debney
Mike Friedrich
Evgeny Kiselev
Joshua Davis
size
Poker, 88.9 × 63.5mm
material
Bicycle® paper with Air-cushion finish
inside
52 Playing cards + 2 Jokers + Info card
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