Ace of spades drawing

All of these prints are textured versions of the traditional playing cards. What would otherwise simply be a solid color has been given detail characteristic of the Medieval Ages. Within each card are also graphic elements that make it appear 3-Dimensional, as though the head for example is physically on top of the checkered background. This adds a level of depth to an otherwise very familiar image. When someone looks at these for the first time, they are instinctively drawn by the…

Ace of spades!!!!

digital composition of a smoking ace of spade playing card with grungy background.

Traditional Spade Design

At university I chose an elective project to fulfill the first year of my course. Out of a number of briefs, I chose the one that was the most appealing to me which I believed I would be most comfortable in. The brief I chose was to design a tattoo for the first line of the poem Ode. Ode is an 1874 poem written by the English poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy to which the opening line is 'We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.' I was firstly influenced by anything I saw that…