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Jun. 19th, 2008 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashI went out on the back porch with my reference and struggled with the last few cards. I now have a sketch for every single remaining card. (Well, I still need something for the 99 of Swords, and possibly for the VOID courts, but that'll come sooner or later.)
Some of these sketches still need revision, mind you. But. I have done a rough for each of 78+ damn cards. Sheesh. That's a lot.
Chevalier of Pentacles, and Prince of Cups. These correspond to what the RWS deck have as the Knight of Wands and the Page of Cups. The face on the action drawing of the Chevalier is overworked; I had a good initial scrawl then erased it and tried to "fix" it - bad move. I'll be scribbling something over that in Illustrator when I do her.
Having her stick a credit card in your face down at the bottom really makes me happy.
The Prince, meanwhile: trusting emotional warmth in the middle of ice.
Chevalier of Cups is probably up for a retake; she's not going quite to the right place. But this is a good start.
Princess (Page) of Wands. Setting her out in space is a very dramatic change from the woods and fields of the rest of the Wands court, but it fits with the sf flavor of the rest of the deck. It just feels right.
And on the right there is another of my Extra Cards. Not a court, not a number, not a Court - this is you, sitting there, using these cards to tell stories to yourself. This is related to an image that's been popping up in my at for a while: 2005, 2007, and earlier this year (still unfinished; a more complete version has been my desktop for the past few months). I used some of these themes for Fortune, as well.
The most significant things left for re-draw are all the Kings - I'm not really happy with any of them as is - and the High Priest. I'd been stuck in thinking about contrasting it to the High Priestess in terms of direct vs. mediated experience of the Divine; sitting out there on the porch after roughing out the Querent, I decided to just throw that aspect away. I opened up my reference and one thing leaped out at me: Teacher. I'm gonna have to ponder that for a while but I think that's a theme I can relate to in a way I could never relate to 'the immense system of the Church'.
Some of these sketches still need revision, mind you. But. I have done a rough for each of 78+ damn cards. Sheesh. That's a lot.
Chevalier of Pentacles, and Prince of Cups. These correspond to what the RWS deck have as the Knight of Wands and the Page of Cups. The face on the action drawing of the Chevalier is overworked; I had a good initial scrawl then erased it and tried to "fix" it - bad move. I'll be scribbling something over that in Illustrator when I do her.
Having her stick a credit card in your face down at the bottom really makes me happy.
The Prince, meanwhile: trusting emotional warmth in the middle of ice.
Chevalier of Cups is probably up for a retake; she's not going quite to the right place. But this is a good start.
Princess (Page) of Wands. Setting her out in space is a very dramatic change from the woods and fields of the rest of the Wands court, but it fits with the sf flavor of the rest of the deck. It just feels right.
And on the right there is another of my Extra Cards. Not a court, not a number, not a Court - this is you, sitting there, using these cards to tell stories to yourself. This is related to an image that's been popping up in my at for a while: 2005, 2007, and earlier this year (still unfinished; a more complete version has been my desktop for the past few months). I used some of these themes for Fortune, as well.
The most significant things left for re-draw are all the Kings - I'm not really happy with any of them as is - and the High Priest. I'd been stuck in thinking about contrasting it to the High Priestess in terms of direct vs. mediated experience of the Divine; sitting out there on the porch after roughing out the Querent, I decided to just throw that aspect away. I opened up my reference and one thing leaped out at me: Teacher. I'm gonna have to ponder that for a while but I think that's a theme I can relate to in a way I could never relate to 'the immense system of the Church'.