No one should see this.: The Witcher Cups Suit

The cups suit is done! This one wasn't nearly as hard for some reason. And I didn't have nearly as much Gwent art in this one, got a lot more fanart. But I found some good stuff.

FYI, the cups suit gets the Northern Realms banner and the Ranged row icon.

The ace is just a bottle of Yen's perfume, subtle, sexy and also cup shaped. It was a struggle to find a high res version of the painting of Iris and Olgierd for the 2, but I knew I had to have them there. Even if it all goes wrong after that painting. Their story is so sweet and then so sad.

I have two threes because dammit, I worked hard on that first one. I really wanted a picture of Geralt drinking with the boys for the three, but all I could find was this one picture in a totally different art style, and it originally had just a plain white background. I spent so much time removing that white background and the faint white outline it left on them so that I could find a good tavern picture and drop them in it and hopefully not have it look too unnatural. I think I did an okay job, but I can tell it just doesn't fit in the deck. So I will be using the card of Zoltan chilling with his friends. I just had to show my work for the first version.

The 4, honestly, I don't know how well Ermion/Mousesack fits the card, other than the fact that he's offering a vessel similar to the traditional imagery and I wanted to make sure he made it into the deck.

My 5s are just an art debate. Both of them apply to the meaning, I just can't choose which one I like more yet.

The 6 made me laugh, who doesn't love the painting of angry baby Ciri? I know the frame around it looks a little odd, but it gets cut out in the printing, don't worry. And Kalkstien is the 7 because if anyone can offer you lots of options, it's our dear alchemist. Plus there's a lot of vessels of some form around him holding who knows what, it fits.

The 8 sort of broke my heart, that's Essie Daven from the books and her story made me cry. I almost put Vivienne there, but I think I have a better place for her. And the 9 is one Borkh Three Jackdaws and his Zerrikanian bodyguards, I can't think of a better wish granted than a hot tub with those two.

The 10 I'm quite proud of, you wouldn't know it but the original picture cuts off the top few inches of Geralt's head and the sky does not extend that far up. So I cut out the sky from further over and fit it around them and drew in the top of Geralt's head. I think it looks great. For the page I'm just happy I finally found a place for Shani. And I adore Dandelion's dramatic pose for the knight of cups.

The queen was another photo editing escapade of mine, if you look at the original, you'll see that Triss looks rather angry in the picture. Well, I wanted this picture for my queen, but I don't really want the queen of cups looking angry. So I spent a LOT of time editing her eyebrows to take out the anger and just make her a little softer. I also think it turned out amazing.

The king took me a lot longer than I thought it would to find the right image, I think this one is actually a promotional image from a mod to improve the graphics of the game. It had the right look for me.