Two weeks before our launch on Kickstarter, I thought it would be interesting to share how we decided upon the artwork for the 5 different locations in Forks, 2nd Edition. After we sold out of the first edition at the UKGE, I began talking to our artist Rusembell about a new theme, something with wider appeal that could be easily understood by families. She suggested art-deco art style, aiming for the old UK tourist posters, and we went for that with 5 distinct locations: a port, desert, wooded area, mountain town and city. Below you can see the evolution from sketches, through to full coloured cards.
![](https://radical8games.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/art-sketches-1024x1021.jpg)
![](https://radical8games.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/sketches-coloured-1024x987.png)
The only change here was to change the mountain town and woodland area to be more distinctive
![](https://radical8games.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/sketrches-coloured-2.png)
And finally, we wawnted to accentuate the colour in the mountain town to make the suit easily identifiable from afar, leading us to the red mountain backdrop below:
![](https://radical8games.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/sketches-coloured-red.png)
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