Constantine
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Illustration projectHo hum, I've decided to finally start on a project I've been thinking about doing for the past few years. For some reason I really want to illustrate a deck of tarot cards. I know absolutely nothing about tarot cards, but I just think it'd be a fun thing to do. So far I have drawings for four of the bazillion cards in a tarot card deck.... meh oh well... amusingly enough, I've just discovered that bazillion is apparently an actual word, since firefox didn't say it was spelled wrong.... nifty...
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Billgar
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Yes there is actually alot going on in the decks especially depending on the designer who created them. They are more than just a death card. Each card is laiden with hundreds(sometimes literally) of different symbols that can be interpreted in different ways depending on the cards placed near them. It is a truly massive undertaking.
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Delilah
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Which ones are you doing? The standard design, original design, some other design?
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Constantine
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Mkay so I've changed my mind and the project. I figure since there's a lot of symbolism in each card that I don't want to have to research just yet, I'm just going to do a regular deck of playing cards. Still a lot of work, but a lot simpler of a project. I'm going to base each suit on a fairy tale set of characters. So far I'm thinking Alice in Wonderlad for hearts, Little Red Riding Hood for maybe spades? and then I was bouncing a few other ones around, maybe Goldilocks, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, I dunno, any ideas for the other two suits?
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Billgar
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GULLIVER"S TRAVELS!
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Beanbaker
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I saw this quote, and after some time of laughing, I thought of you guys.
"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." -Steven Wright (1955 - )
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Delilah
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I was cruising around on Deviantart the other day and found someone who's done something like that. A whole deck of cards in some theme.
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