Nonsense TCG

For my intro to graphic design course, this had to of been my favourite project from the first semester because It was the first time I drew on the computer! I was a maniac tho because I would draw with a mouse so yeah... I was pretty insane.

For the trading cards, we had to make a set of 6 cards that have a overarching theme. I was very perplexed at the time and couldn't think of a theme for my cards. However, I did have a lot of ideas but they didn't really connect. But maybe that wasn't a problem. I ended up choosing the theme of nonsense! Where everything is random and has no correlation.

Project Type

Trading cards

Tools Used

Sketchbook

Adobe Illustrator

Procreate

Card Sketches

This is the original sketches of the card designs I drew up.

Final Illustration original designs

This WAS the final result! I made these illustrations in Illustrator. Like i mentionned before, they were all drawn with a mouse using illustrator's brush tool. Not gonna lie I drew with a mouse using the brush tool for 4 semesters and my teacher's all knew I was a madman but I still did it!

Front card designs

Back card designs with descriptions

Revamped card designs

Although this is one of my favourite projects, It is nowhere near perfect. I want to improve this project because I used to draw with a mouse, and I can see the imperfections of the illustrations I made back in the first semester. The card designs need a complete overhaul because it's just the name of the character on the card and the drawing. I would also like to make the cards feel like they are part of the same set despite the concept being that they are nonsensical without any connection.

New revamped card designs

Here are the new and improved card designs by using implementing feeback from students feeback in class.