David Blaine

At the beginning of 2019 I designed the court cards for the Madison Advocates.
In the design process of the Remedies we decided to split the face cards. 50% of the courts I want to see in this deck and 50% that D wants to see.
D told me to take a few courts from the Advocates but for the King of Spades I saw an opportunity that I would never get again that fast.
So I asked D if it's possible to add David Blaine to the deck.
One day later we already got an answer from David. He is ok with it as long we don't use his card heavily for promotion. We never did and we never had to. Also, nobody ever said "wow DB is in the deck I need to buy these cards". It was really just for myself.

We sent David a brick and he said he "digs" them. Imagine him saying that with all his hyperactivity. But I'm really happy about this. David has also nothing against it that we use his court in the next edition as well. And of course I don't want to replace this card.

Now look at the photo above. The card on top is DB's court from his latest deck release.
The card underneath is from the Remedies deck. You need tell me which card looks better.
I don't understand how Blaine's court card face got such thick lines. If you compare it with the original Split Spades KS - it didn't look like that at the beginning. I'm sure they lost DB's original court card file so they just photographed or scanned an old card. With sloppy editing those lines ended up that thick.

I've also "only" photographed an old card to get the face but I edited it so that everything fits to the rest of the court card. And I'm ALMOST happy with everything on the printed version. The chin line ended up a bit too thin. This will look better in the second Remedies edition. I've also redrawn the eyes - nothing that was really necessary but it will look cleaner at the end.

Actually for the next edition I replaced the whole court with my redrawn King of Spades file.
That's what I do right now with every card. I'm already working on this for a few weeks now.

If you look close, you'll see I also found a very good spot on the King of Spades where I've placed David Blaine's logo.

I also know all this work into the last detail is ridiculous since nobody would pay attention to it when I don't force people to look at it. But I know this sets my work apart from everybody else.

Thanks for reading and thanks for your interest and support. More Remedies V2 updates will follow soon.