its the big one - TAROT UPDATE!!!
I have all kinds of updates today, its been a busy two weeks. But I want to
tell you about the Tarot News - mostly because this is the biggest thing in
my world and its all I've been focusing on for like... forever?? Feels like
it. Someone please feed me chocolate when I'm done, or get me to a massage
therapist. I'm gonna need both.
*Tarot Update* - I have created the card back and the card box. Sounds
simple right? I have to tell you, this part of the process has been the
hardest. The card back took me 12 hours to make. Would have taken longer
if it hadn't been for Christine at Monolith Graphics who helped by doing the
border on the card back. 12 straight hours of detailed painting on a wing
design, and then scanning it into photoshop and trying to create the
cleanest card design possible. I had to do things in Photoshop I had never
done before. I love Photoshop, but unlike my graphic design friends who use
all of its apps regularly, I in comparison know very little and struggled
with each application in the program. But the result is stunning. Well,
stunning to me, but you know I'm a total perfectionist and wouldn't be happy
if it wasn't a very beautiful design. Trust me, I think you'll like it.
*Tarot Release* - It is almost time. The Watcher Angel Tarot will go on
pre-sale on *Tuesday, June 21, 2011*. The deck official release date
is *October
21, 2011*. To kick off the Tarot pre-sale, Michelle and I will be doing a
live Twitter to YouTube chat on Monday June 20th at 6:30 EST, and Tuesday
the 21st same time. We will be taking questions from fans of the deck via
Twitter (@sethanikeem and @spiralingfire) and answering them live. We'll
also take a bunch of those detailed questions and answer them via YouTube
video chat and post it immediately. So if you have questions about the deck
that you would like answered, post them here and I'll print them out for our
chat, or hit us up on Monday.
I don't mind saying, it is extremely important that our pre-sale go well.
If we can't raise enough money in the pre-sale, we can't publish the deck
whose cost for just the printing alone sits at an astounding $8500. Scary
isn't it. So please, please help me make this dream a reality and encourage
people to pre-order a tarot deck. I have been hard at work on my website
with a new design and all sorts of features, and am putting up a new
*Store*this weekend on which the deck can be pre-ordered. Check out
*http://www.spiralfirestudio.com* later today when the site is totally up, I
think you will be very happy with it.
Hugs to all, thank you for all your continued support of my art!
Jackie
tell you about the Tarot News - mostly because this is the biggest thing in
my world and its all I've been focusing on for like... forever?? Feels like
it. Someone please feed me chocolate when I'm done, or get me to a massage
therapist. I'm gonna need both.
*Tarot Update* - I have created the card back and the card box. Sounds
simple right? I have to tell you, this part of the process has been the
hardest. The card back took me 12 hours to make. Would have taken longer
if it hadn't been for Christine at Monolith Graphics who helped by doing the
border on the card back. 12 straight hours of detailed painting on a wing
design, and then scanning it into photoshop and trying to create the
cleanest card design possible. I had to do things in Photoshop I had never
done before. I love Photoshop, but unlike my graphic design friends who use
all of its apps regularly, I in comparison know very little and struggled
with each application in the program. But the result is stunning. Well,
stunning to me, but you know I'm a total perfectionist and wouldn't be happy
if it wasn't a very beautiful design. Trust me, I think you'll like it.
*Tarot Release* - It is almost time. The Watcher Angel Tarot will go on
pre-sale on *Tuesday, June 21, 2011*. The deck official release date
is *October
21, 2011*. To kick off the Tarot pre-sale, Michelle and I will be doing a
live Twitter to YouTube chat on Monday June 20th at 6:30 EST, and Tuesday
the 21st same time. We will be taking questions from fans of the deck via
Twitter (@sethanikeem and @spiralingfire) and answering them live. We'll
also take a bunch of those detailed questions and answer them via YouTube
video chat and post it immediately. So if you have questions about the deck
that you would like answered, post them here and I'll print them out for our
chat, or hit us up on Monday.
I don't mind saying, it is extremely important that our pre-sale go well.
If we can't raise enough money in the pre-sale, we can't publish the deck
whose cost for just the printing alone sits at an astounding $8500. Scary
isn't it. So please, please help me make this dream a reality and encourage
people to pre-order a tarot deck. I have been hard at work on my website
with a new design and all sorts of features, and am putting up a new
*Store*this weekend on which the deck can be pre-ordered. Check out
*http://www.spiralfirestudio.com* later today when the site is totally up, I
think you will be very happy with it.
Hugs to all, thank you for all your continued support of my art!
Jackie