Your Mission:

For this project, you will be designing a Playing Card in the style of Ben Copperwheat. 
You will design the FRONT and BACK of an original playing card of your choice. 
Both sides of your playing card must incorporate your original pattern design(s).
Your card design can use use any appropriate glyphs (symbols) such as hearts, clubs, horseshoes, bees, etc. and must incorporate any new, original art work. This could be a collage, portrait, digitalized original sketches (I can scan any of your artwork for you), digital painting, or pen tool illustrations. This project option is the most open-ended, but it must be creative, new, and original.
Requirements:
  1. Brainstorm: Think about what you want your card to have on it. This is the most open-ended project option so BE CREATIVE!
    1. ​Find different inspirations online 
      1. Save ALL photos of inspiration and upload it into your Do Now Portfolio
  2. Pattern: The front and back of your playing card MUST include an original pattern design
    1. Your original pattern will be submitted and graded separately 
    2. The original pattern design can be created using Photoshop or Illustrator 
** Your pattern design could be the gylph (symbol) for your playing card so plan accordingly! **
FRONT of the Playing Card:
     3.  Focal Point: Your playing card needs to have original imagery as
          its focal point.
            1. Your imagery can be created using Photoshop and/or
                Illustrator
            2. Your design should be large and take up at least 50% of the 
                composition (art board) 
                     1. Your design can be one large image OR you can have 
                          image show its reflection directly underneath
                          (see  image example below)
            3. Your design MUST incorporate your original pattern  
            4. Save and upload the front of your playing card into your 
                 Google Slide Portfolio with the appropriate project title
                 (Final: Playing Card, Front)
BACK of the Playing Card:​
  1. The back of the playing card needs to have a pattern fill in the entire composition (art board)
    1. You can include a boarder going around the entire composition 
  2. Save and upload the back of your playing card into your Google Slide Portfolio with the appropriate title (Final: Playing Card, Back)
    1. ​The front and back of the playing card can be on the same slide or two different slides in your portfolio - your choice
One large image
Reflective Imagery (symmetry)
Process:
  1. Create an original pattern using Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop
    1. Document should be no smaller than an 5" X 5" 
      1. ​Your pattern design will play a major roll in your playing card - it will be the back of your card design and incorporated on the front design of your card so be creative and make something awesome! 
    2. Save and upload into your Google Slide Portfolio with the appropriate project title (Final: Pattern Design)
  2. ​Go onto Google or the Playing Arts​ website for inspiration 
    1. ​If you have original sketches, these can be scanned into the computer for you to digitalize 
      1. ​ALL references and/or inspiration for your project should be saved and uploaded into your Do Now Portfolio
  3. Open an 8.5" X 11" (portrait) document (Illustrator or Photoshop)
  4. If using and references or sketches to trace over, open the image
    1. Lock the layer 
    2. Use any tools and references (tutorials, youtube, etc.) to help you create your design 
    3. Your pattern design MUST be incorporated on the front design of the playing card 
      1. Your design could be a collage, portrait, illustration, digital painting, etc. 
        1. Your designs need to be new, creative, and original! 
  5. Save and upload into your Google Slide Portfolio with the appropriate project title (Final: Playing Card, Front)
  6. Repeat the process using your pattern design to create the back of the playing card
    1. Save and upload into your Google Slide Portfolio with the appropriate project title (Final: Playing Card, Back)



Back Designs 

Reference the Surrealist Collage, Pen Tool , Playing Arts, and the Digital Painting  pages to help you