Save those Box Tops

An update on the project so far.

Right now I am three cards away from completing the loteria deck.  This is amazing because I never really thought too much about the END of the project.  I was concentrating on the card I was working on, and mildly thinking about what I'd do for the next card in the series.  Suddenly, I'm almost out of cards and the next step in the process will be sending the graphics off to a publisher.  How on earth did this happen?

There is a large template that the publisher gives out to clients to help them format graphics for the box design.  For reasons that I won't go into here, the box needed to be made using original art.  I was tempted to just pick one of the cards that I liked best and make that the graphic for the box.  That isn't going to work.  Artwork going through the publication process needs to have different borders than what I've been using, so a new approach was called for.

If you've checked out the "Dark Deck" on the atalentforraw.com page, you'll know what I mean when I say that I was thinking of using a block cut design.  This would work well and be striking.  The more I thought about it the more it seemed like a cop-out thought.  The block cut designs are great looking, but not particularly as a centerpiece.  The artwork on the box has to capture the feel of every card in the deck, and nothing that I was coming up with fulfilled that requirement.  So I grabbed the largest piece of canvas that I had in the studio and set to work. 

I'll post the results soon, but let me say right now that I'm thrilled with what I came up with.  This is going to be something extra special that will capture everyone's eye.