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Friday, August 22, 2014

I'm back! With a new tarot deck!

yeah, I've been unmotivated lately. I recently got obsessed with a cute little indie survival game called Don't Starve and it has CONSUMED MY LIFE.

Seriously. Go check it out. It's awesome.

I used to just make my little brother play when he came over, but last time, he had stayed up all night playing other games the night before, and didn't feel like playing when I wanted him to, so he handed me the controller. And then I NEVER PUT IT DOWN.

Except briefly for the last few days. I finally finished my Fullmetal Alchemist Tarot deck. It's been sitting around half finished for ages, and I finally got motivated. (Because I got a 50% off coupon to the site where I get my decks printed.) I intended for it to be bothe FMA and FMA:B, but there is a shocking lack of fanart of FMA only characters, so it's pretty much all FMA:B.

So here it is!
The Major Arcana

Monday, June 16, 2014

Tarot Deck Boxes!

Now, I can order custom printed boxes from the same place where I got the decks printed, but they don't account for the fact that I am sleeving my decks. (Of COURSE I'm sleeving them. I worked way too hard on these to not protect them.) And I desperately needed boxes. I was unable to find a good source to get them professionally printed because companies that print custom boxes are usually doing it for commercial purposes, where they expect you to be a business owner who's ordering hundreds of these at a time. Where I needed only one of each, that was not really practical. At best I would pay around $180 for them. That's a little more than I wanted to spend for four boxes. So in the end, I made up my designs, and had them printed on cardstock at Office Depot, then cut and glued them together myself. I gave them a coat of clear spray paint to protect them too. I think it turned out pretty good. I just used the card backs for the design and then added the series logo edited to match the rest on the side. Here they are:

And look! I made one for my Shadowscapes deck too! I just scanned in the back of the card. The logo was harder though, because there is no clean PNG of the logo anywhere on the internet, so I had to make my own. Spent quite a bit of time cleaning out the background and then adjusting the color to match.

Friday, June 13, 2014

And the last Zelda tarot post.

And here's the card back. The frame I straight up took from someone who made it specifically for the purpose of making Zelda tarot cards. I tried to make my own frame, but it just wasn't going well. I was so glad when I found this one. The card back I designed with various bits and pieces of things. I love the way it turned out.

Sources:
Frame: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=36708576#_=_
texture background on card back: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Texture-1-323648509
Hyrule Crest: http://blueamnesiac.deviantart.com/art/Stone-Hylian-Crest-311885905
OOT Medallions: http://blueamnesiac.deviantart.com/art/OOT-Water-Medallion-375360146
Rupee Symbol: http://doctor-g.deviantart.com/art/ALttP-Rupees-361772399
Sword Symbol: http://doctor-g.deviantart.com/art/OOT-Master-Sword-298238597
Bottle Symbol: http://blueamnesiac.deviantart.com/art/OOT-Bottle-Milk-408166400
Boss Key Symbol: http://blueamnesiac.deviantart.com/art/OOT-Boss-Key-410421752

Swords

The Swords! It's the first time I haven't had a huge problem doing the swords suit. It went pretty well. The Spirit medallion in the corners, and the Master Sword, of course. And Fi and Ghirahim probably should have been king and queen, but I just couldn't stand for Ganondorf to not be king.

Pentacles

The Pentacles! Forest medallion, and a green Rupee for the symbol. I had a surprisingly hard time giving Navi her own card, because while she's certainly important enough for it, she's just not that interesting to look at.

Wands

The Wands! As I said before, I used the Fire medallion for the corners of this frame, and a Boss key for the little symbol.

ace. http://eternalegend.deviantart.com/art/Majora-s-Mask-The-Clockworks-346565290
2. http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=40934866
3. http://3wizardsofhtml.tumblr.com/post/20058752020/skyward-sword-was-such-a-sweet-game-compiled-all
4. http://ry-spirit.deviantart.com/art/I-now-call-you-Brother-177243738
5. http://txikimorin.deviantart.com/art/Link-vs-Morpha-345896094
6. http://society6.com/RebekahHolder/Legend-of-Zelda-The-Knighting-of-Link#1=45
7. http://ry-spirit.deviantart.com/art/Majora-Must-Die-184199019
8. http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=19919005#_=_
9. http://onisuu.deviantart.com/art/twilight-princess-ashei-306351187
10. http://www.inprnt.com/gallery/lulles/onward-peasant/
page. http://www.pixiv.com/works/42054298#_=_
knight. http://emeraldus.deviantart.com/art/Sheik-373857431
queen. http://stellab.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-Roses-188939543
king. http://vegacolors.deviantart.com/art/The-Hero-in-Green-404493904

Cups

So, like I said previously, there's no theme for the suits, but I did mark the frames so the suits would be a little different. If you noticed, in the Majors I had the Medallion of Shadow in the corners of the frame. It went well with the less down to earth meanings of the cards. Or, to be perfectly frank, it was the one left over after I used Light for the card back and assigned the others to suits... Spirit would have seemed appropriate for the Majors, but I felt like it matched up elementally better with Swords than Shadow would have. And those were the only choices, because obviously Wands are the Fire medallion, Pentacles are the Forest medallion and of course Cups are the Water medallion. The choices were not arbitrary, they were practically made for me. But there is no Air medallion, so I felt that Spirit was closest. Anyways, point is, the Cups suit is using the Water medallion, with a bottle of Lon Lon Milk at the top for extra Cups-iness. I liked it.

also, I don't want to put the artist down, because I think its a beautiful piece, and I love it, but if you look at the original source for the 8, you'll notice I actually widened her waist by a not insignificant amount. I mean, I love the picture, and the artist is very talented, but be reasonable, man! The original looks like the weight of her upper body is going to snap her spine! Seriously!