As promised, I'm here to give a thorough rundown and review of Jui Guoliang's Chinese Tarot deck. I'll be showing scans of most (though not all) of the cards, which are hopefully small enough to not err... incur un-fair usage... but I do encourage you to click through and take a look at the very nice artworks even if you don't read my humongous ( Read more... )

Got my Youtube stream, got my cup of tea, got Notepad open for snarking/rambling/SQUEEING. LET'S DO THIS THING.

( Nintendo connnnnnference )

Horray, all the Major Arcana thumbnails!! At this point, I am going to not yet go onto the Minors but try to work on the full-size versions of these cards instead, because it's better to have a completed Majors-only deck than nothing at all. (Plus I'm eager to get started on doing some full paintings.) I still have every bit of intention to do ( Read more... )

For ctrl_a!

( 21 - The World (thumbnail) )

This is going to be THE most difficult and time-consuming Majors card to paint, calling it now. Ironically the thumbnail came together quite quickly, for how long I've turned it over in my mind - probably because I totally didn't bother to do accurate perspective or architecture.

( 20 - Judgement (thumbnail) )

I was also blocked on this one for a long time because James Potter is such a cocky bastard. Glad to have pushed it through, will probably go back and put in better lighting later.

( 04 - The Emperor (thumbnail) )

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Not sure if this one fits the style, but I did my best~

( 18 - The Moon (thumbnail) )

I was mid-way stuck on this one for a long time (since before the thumbnails dry-spell) because I think the amount of stuff to draw turned me off (and I'm not looking forward to drawing it out in full, either). Someday I will be able to put more than minimal effort into backgrounds. Someday. :\

( 03 - The Empress (thumbnail) )

Ahh, good ol' rim lighting makes everything look better.

( 14 - Temperance (thumbnail) )