Taking a Chance

I have a lot to say about this one.

Ok first off, I wanna make it clear that I do not gamble or anything like that(I’ve lost too many times), the idea came because I was looking for inspiration in my room and found a deck of cards. Next thing is that this pretty much entire design concept is from this tutorial which is great. Now let me talk about this: so this is actually the first time I sketched something, scanned it, then used it as a template. My sketch was only like the size of a credit card on a corner of my french homework, but that was fine in the end… I then in illustrator took a brush and made the lines. Here is a question  to anyone who can help, I made all my lines, and I wanted to erase and smooth out bumps and stuff like you can do in flash(as seen in the tut) but then, all the brush strokes were lines, and my eraser was useless. I tried “outline stroke” but it made all my lines skinny and ugly. So I just kept my lines all scraggly. Next thing is the phrase, “wanna bet on that?” I know it is lame, and kinda creepy, but I needed a short catchy phrase that has to do with gambling. Of course now that I’m done I can think of like 20 better phrases like, “I’m feeling luck”(google) “I’ll take the chance” or something about putting money on something.