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A bit of a back story:
I like doodling. It's my way of passing time, especially when I'm waiting for something or someone. It also involves a looser artistic process, in an almost subconscious way - it's like automatic writing in that at times I do not have conscious control of what comes out of the pen. I also don't have to be careful if I might mistakes or anything. The mistakes get incorporated into the doodle itself.
Some time back, I thought of making my doodles more productive by giving them a theme. Hence this deck. It's sort of a sleeper deck since it really isn't one of my main projects but it got completed ahead of them. This was drawn while waiting for orders in restaurants, waiting for friends, waiting at the hospital, etc. - really, when I needed to kill time and don't need to focus on what I am drawing. I just had the card's theme in my head and allowed my subconscious to do the rest.
Anino means "shadow" in Filipino. The art is inspired by doodles, graffiti, shadow puppets, ethnic textile patterns, papercutting traditions, etc. They just all joined together hopefully coherently into this deck.
I am planning to release the deck next week by giving an early bird promo discount before I turn everything over to the Game Crafter next month. I am now thinking on what to do with the extra cards. The deck already has an extra child card (basically, there's a boy and there's a girl), and extra man and woman cards. I am not so sure what I should do with the rest. I have thought of turning the other extra cards into the deck's "booklet" - put some short meanings and a some instructions in them. But part of me feels that that's a bit of a waste too - the people who will buy the deck will probably already be aware of the meaning of the cards, and would only probably give the provided meanings a cursory scan. Maybe I can turn them into bookmarks, or something?
Any suggestions on what to do with the extra cards are very much welcome.
-Ly
(PS the writing system featured in the Book and Letter cards is a writing system I have developed in 6th grade and one which I still use until now. It's evolved fom something Runic, to something more Asian-looking)
I like doodling. It's my way of passing time, especially when I'm waiting for something or someone. It also involves a looser artistic process, in an almost subconscious way - it's like automatic writing in that at times I do not have conscious control of what comes out of the pen. I also don't have to be careful if I might mistakes or anything. The mistakes get incorporated into the doodle itself.
Some time back, I thought of making my doodles more productive by giving them a theme. Hence this deck. It's sort of a sleeper deck since it really isn't one of my main projects but it got completed ahead of them. This was drawn while waiting for orders in restaurants, waiting for friends, waiting at the hospital, etc. - really, when I needed to kill time and don't need to focus on what I am drawing. I just had the card's theme in my head and allowed my subconscious to do the rest.
Anino means "shadow" in Filipino. The art is inspired by doodles, graffiti, shadow puppets, ethnic textile patterns, papercutting traditions, etc. They just all joined together hopefully coherently into this deck.
I am planning to release the deck next week by giving an early bird promo discount before I turn everything over to the Game Crafter next month. I am now thinking on what to do with the extra cards. The deck already has an extra child card (basically, there's a boy and there's a girl), and extra man and woman cards. I am not so sure what I should do with the rest. I have thought of turning the other extra cards into the deck's "booklet" - put some short meanings and a some instructions in them. But part of me feels that that's a bit of a waste too - the people who will buy the deck will probably already be aware of the meaning of the cards, and would only probably give the provided meanings a cursory scan. Maybe I can turn them into bookmarks, or something?
Any suggestions on what to do with the extra cards are very much welcome.
-Ly
(PS the writing system featured in the Book and Letter cards is a writing system I have developed in 6th grade and one which I still use until now. It's evolved fom something Runic, to something more Asian-looking)