Week 10 - 9 Card Variations

 Cristiano Ronaldo #7

 Steven Gerrard #8

Referre

Craft: To create this cards I decided to use the pen tool instead of the brush tool, because I felt more comfortable with it. I would use the pen tool to trace images of the famous soccer players and ref that I picked. I was also very actively using the layers window as well as the color picker tool.

Composition and Concept: To create these illustrations I placed a picture of a player, like Cristiano Ronaldo, on one layer. Then I would start tracing the overall outline of the entire image with the pen tool. Once the outline was done I would also trace separately every part of the shit and short. To give the face and hands more detail, I created shapes with the pen tool to make those extra details, like the chins of the players. or the wrinkles on Gerrard's neck, and the fingers on the Referre. For the hair I traced the outline of their hair in the pictures. After creating the hair I would make an outline that would cover their entire faces and necks and then I would move it under the hair outline in the layers panel. I then used the color picker tool to fill all the different parts of the illustration. Since it is a game that I will be playing with my friends, I wanted the color concept for these cards to be darker than the regular Uno deck. I also wanted the illustrations to look a lot like the real players, because it would give it a cooler feel when playing with my friends.