Animal Cards

While I’m wrapping up projects that I’ve had in the works for some time, I’ve recently had the satisfaction of being able to turn some attention back toward a few older projects. Yesterday, I used some of my weekly scheduled studio time to revisit the concept of a tarot deck, this time with certain finished concept in mind.

I imagined an anthropomorphic tarot deck based on illustrations like the Piscine Party art trading cards that I previously posted. These show portrait-like scenes of anthropomorphic figures, with expressive, realistic animal faces and human-like costumes and hands. I set them against simple, colorful backgrounds, previously done with illustration markers, but this time I added color in digitally for flexibility. The idea of matching expressive animal faces with each archetypal symbol and costuming them sounded really fun, and I was right! I didn’t plan on drawing animal portraits all day yesterday, but that’s what I did.

Later this week, I will be back with more news on product development and digital stuff, so real pencil-and-paper drawing felt like a really nice way to start the week off! Later this week, I will be back with updates on my series of botanical gouache illustrations, including news on what I’m planning for them.