Jack of Clubs

As you already know, my face cards always get improved so that none of the faces in one deck look like another. Most of the details that I change are so so small that I often think it's not worth to talk about it. I also hestitated with this post because explaining what I do is so incredible complicated and time consuming. But because of all the hours of work I think it's worth it to talk about it.

It's been a while now since I've redrawn the standard faces that I offer as a download on my website. From small creators who want to print their first deck to the biggest companies in this magic industry - they all profit from these files now. It reached a level where people use my work for their own decks and they don't even know that these are my files.

The Jack of Clubs in my decks is a good friend of mine, Alex. Fun fact, Alex's Jack of Clubs in the Red Remedies deck was the very first completely redrawn court card that made it into print. All the other court cards in the Red Remedies deck aren't on my redrawn files.
If you compare the Red Remedies courts with the Blue or Green Remedies, you can see the difference since I've changed them after the red ones.

If you zoom in on a standard court card from USPCC you'll get what you see in the image below. These uneven lines motivated me to create a clean version of it.

Below you see my version. I don't think it needs much explanation.

Since the Remedies came out I've used my version in all my decks. But here comes the part where it gets ridiculously detailed :D

The shape of the rectangles with the stars inside bothered me since a while. The space between the rectangles is uneven. In the image below you can see there is more space on top than on the bottom. All the rectangles inside this yellow stripe also aren't even in one line to the blue outlines of the yellow stripe. I'm not sure if you can follow me but that's what I mean when I say it's so complicated to explain what I do.

Here you can see before and after. It is as clean as it can be now.

This alone took me several hours of work. And even for me it's funny now when I look at the image and the difference is barely visible. But that's how my work simply differs from others.

I'm very proud of the face drawing since it comes really close to a standard face card. But it also still looks unmistakably like Alex. That's why I have used his court in a few decks without changing a detail on his face. However, I'm working on the white DSPC courts right now and I've finally changed something on a few cards that bothered me as well. The eyes are too small. The eyes on a standard court card are completely oversized compared to a real face but I can't simply make them bigger. Most of the time it looks weird and sadly I'm not a caricaturist. Maybe then I would understand a bit better what I need to do. It always takes a lot attempts until everything looks right. Last but not least I've changed the eyebrows as well. Funnily enough, with the extra details they look more like the standard ones than the standard ones actually look like.

Except the faces I've made quite a lot updates on all my court cards in the past two years. Updates that I could also share online as download with the world but I want to keep them for myself. At least for a while. I don't think the majority appreciates it. I would love to share it with those who really see and appreciate the difference but when I do this it would sooner or later fall into the wrong hands and I simply don't like this thought.

Thanks a lot for reading! It took me forever to write this. But now you get a better idea what I do.

P.S. I know I'm a bit late too the party but I've opened my first Hellions decks yesterday. D, when you read this, I know you'll forgive me but my eyes are still bleeding. :D

Much love

Daniel