I always see the number 3 as a triangle, and when I received the assign- the 3 of hearts- was pretty obvious to me make a kind of love triangle, and a love triangle is always a little conflictive and sometimes bizarre. I don’t know why I use here just masculine characters, but definitely they are ambiguous, very different between them and slightly aggressive, maybe complicated in this situation... because three’s a crowd.

Four ghosts each represent a Spade with fourth one enlightening and leading the way.

The eyeball has been my trademark for quite some years, and i like to draw one in a composition whenever i can! Sometimes as a cartoon, sometimes as an icon, the point is to leave a mark with it. I chose to include some exotic yet fictionary plants, cause i like how wild and dense they look like. Drawing jungle is a good way to fight cold European winters.

The idea came from a biblical Word, where it explain how Jesus will come for the second time, he will show on a White horse with a White and shinny dress, with a sword in the hand and a Crown in the head. It speaks that the one that was called by love will come this time on a horse from the heaven with a White dress, a sword and a Crown to make justice, so we make a representation with our own style to describe this prophetic Word. With a research, we realize that the number seven it’s the number of perfection and the sword is associated to the divine Word.

I wanted to make an allusion to a figure of Don Juan, because he is able to collect as many hearts together. Therefore 9 hearts impaled on a sword and shrouded in a cloak.

To be honest, designing a ’high’ card is a bit of a challenge to me. I wanted to design a reversible card and the illustration can stand on its own without looking at the given pictograms showing what card it is. Nature has always been my favourite subject. Natural elements such as animals and plants are used to incorporate 10 bits of diamonds with two of them facing each other at the centre forming an “X” symbol which means 10. The resulting piece is a reversible design with two sides that are totally different from each other.

Perched high on the Dublin mountains lies The Hellfire Club, an 18th century hunting lodge with an infamous history of outrageous behaviour and depravity. Accounts of the club’s meetings claim that members drank “scaltheen”, a mixture of whiskey and hot butter, and that they left a chair vacant at each gathering for the Devil. One of these accounts tells of a stranger who arrived at the club on a stormy night. Invited in, he joined the members in a card game. As one player dropped his card on the floor he bent under the table to retrieve it and noticed that the stranger had a cloven hoof. At this point the visitor disappeared in a ball of flames ;)

I love the aesthetic of card, also the colours so i wanted to keep this and do a king of heart very close to the existant versions.