These are several playing card artworks created by a German artist, Silke Werzinger. She is a freelance illustrator with home in Berlin. Silke studied communication design in Nuremberg. Now she creates her artworks for different clients: Cosmopolitan, Deutsche Telekom, Electronic Arts, L’Oréal, ELLE Girl, Mavi Jeans, Mc Donalds, etc.
Silke has a really unique style. She proves sketches to be finished artworks. Enjoy this “sketchy” style.
© Silke Werzinger
Ex-Boyfriends by Silke Werzinger
Lorenzo Gaggiotti (Stockholm17) started his third playing card project on Kickstarter. This deck, Bicycle №17 Playing Cards, is full of art and imagination as his previous two decks, Requiem Playing Cards and Heretic Playing Cards. Playing cards traditionally have a lot of hidden details, inscriptions, and meanings.
“There is no specific theme in this deck, it´s quite eclectic and I let my fantasy run when I illustrated the courts. The diamonds have clearly an Egyptian resemblance, but overall they belong to a parallel world. There is a thing that connects all the court cards: the text circling the background is a part of the Aeneid, a Latin epic poem written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.” ~ Lorenzo Gaggiotti
There will be five different decks in this No. 17 series. The Bicycle and Unbranded No. 17 decks are planned to be printed by the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC).
Murphy’s Magic has a new annual “DESIGN-A-DECK” competition.
“We’ve been fortunate enough to see our playing cards go from imagination, to conception, to being distributed worldwide! As we have a very close relationship with the United States Playing Card Company, we’ve decided to give one of you a chance to see your project come to life! We’re looking for the best, undiscovered deck design out there!” ~ Murphy’s Magic
Murphy’s offering:
Read more about their art request HERE.
Paul Green is a comic artist. He designed this Pin-Up Harlequin Joker for one of two Joker Cards featuring in a Game App by Megu. This is a coloured sketch.
© Paul Green 2015
Pin-Up Harlequin Joker
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 