Come to find out, the tarot deck is on many ways the cast of every great story- of life in fact. I had always shrouded the idea of the tarot deck in a mystical ignorance. I was so surprised to dig into each of the archetypes/characters of the Major Arcana. Detail became the dominant feature of this budding series. I also started to let myself doodle some in the creation of whimsical patterns. I found myself using everything from contour line to stipling to cross-hatching to delineate depth, shape, light and shadow, texture and tonal value. I had never limited myself to black ink on white paper most of my work has been in vivid color. I spent lots of of time developing this illustration because it was my only submission to this book cover “audition.” I developed many new techniques through this piece. Illustration I, The Fool, was my first of these illustrations. I began this series in a sort of audition for a book cover that I did not get. This series illustrates many things for me (pun intended).
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