I know there are Dia de los Muertos and Nevada Jacks designs that feature skulls, but for lack of a better term, they look "ceramics-y" (not used pejoratively), and I had an idea for a more "traditional" design...
Again, I'm not an illustrator, so I took a publicly available vector art of a calavera, a.k.a. sugar skull, and I replaced some of the elements with poker suits (clubs in the eye sockets, spade for the nose, heart in the forehead, diamonds across the top, using four-color deck coloring).
Had to decide between having the skull in-full above the denomination or having the skull be enlarged and faded as a background with the denomination centered. Decided on the former for this first mockup (the denoms on top of the faded skull is too busy, even with a stroked border around the denoms, and it blocks too much of the calavera design), though I used the latter idea for the bounty chip (I also faded the "Poker Room" on the bounty chip, which I'll probably carry back to the denom chips).
This only my second attempt at designing chips, so all feedback welcome!
Again, I'm not an illustrator, so I took a publicly available vector art of a calavera, a.k.a. sugar skull, and I replaced some of the elements with poker suits (clubs in the eye sockets, spade for the nose, heart in the forehead, diamonds across the top, using four-color deck coloring).
Had to decide between having the skull in-full above the denomination or having the skull be enlarged and faded as a background with the denomination centered. Decided on the former for this first mockup (the denoms on top of the faded skull is too busy, even with a stroked border around the denoms, and it blocks too much of the calavera design), though I used the latter idea for the bounty chip (I also faded the "Poker Room" on the bounty chip, which I'll probably carry back to the denom chips).
This only my second attempt at designing chips, so all feedback welcome!
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