Zeus Bust Illustration

Zeus-Bust exploration, designed for a friend's upcoming cardgame.

The game is based on a specific Greek Myth (no spoilers yet), and it is a trick oriented card-game.

My goal was to give the feel of antiquity by designing only a bust looking to the side, connecting it in this way with the classic imagery of a Jack in a set of playing cards.

The overall design is highly rigid and geometric, pointing this way to some of the ancient Greek thematology.

Also I wanted to keep it clean like a statue/bust (no use of heavy Zeus imagery), and only indicate the specific god with a crown resembling a thunder.