The Swords Suit- Pin Ups

Two in one day! I told you the swords wouldn't take me long. I'd pretty much already made all the replacements other than the royalty. Now, irritatingly enough I wasn't able to follow my themes for knights and pages in this suit because there just wasn't as much military pinup art as I would like. But my royalty is a matched set of four, and I think that's pretty neat. I'm actually very happy with this suit, which is odd considering the fact that I always struggle with the swords suit, we just don't get along, plus I was trying to depict tragedy and heartbreak with happy cheerful pin up girls. I don't know I just like how it came out.

Also, that 5 of swords. I laughed forever when I found that. I never thought finding a picture to mean cutthroat and win at all costs would be so easy. God I love that one.

The Suit of Pentacles- Pin Ups

Told you I was making good time on this deck. I think it's going pretty well. I think I should be able to knock out the suit of swords pretty fast here too. As I'm sure you've seen so far we have tried to make sure that the royalty of each suit has a theme- the cups were all holding drink, here we have women who are all working at various jobs. The swords royalty are all soldiers, or in some form of military uniform at least. I'm still working on wands. At the moment all the girls are dressed up in costumes, but it kinda blurs with the pents royalty, I'm not super thrilled with it. So I'm trying to come up with a better theme for wands, but I'm having a little trouble. Right now I'm leaning towards gambling girls, with dice or poker cards or whatever. You know, wands are passionate, and they're gonna be risk takers. Like gambling. I guess? It sorta makes sense. I don't know, I'm still messing with it. But I am also trying to make the royalty match traditional imagery. My pages have some form of communication, like cups was a waitress who brings drinks to people. here, pentacles page has a typewriter. You'll see the others. My knights are pictured with vehicles, since knights traditionally ride horses. I try to make my queens look very feminine, and the kings have been doing things that are a little more masculine, like drinking beer in the cups, and welding here. That's what I'm trying fr at least. Anyways, here's the pentacles!

The Suit of Cups- Pin Ups

So, I'm trying really hard to get this deck done, and it's going fairly quickly because Amanda and I previously went through and picked out the artwork for the deck. However, since then I went on a crazy pinup art collecting spree. Seriously, my pin up board on Pinterest is up over 1000 pins. That stuff is addicting, they're all so pretty!

Anyways, it goes pretty quick except that we are redoing a bunch of the cards with new better pictures I've found, so that slows me down a bit. Some we just found pictures that were a better fit, some I wasn't able to find high enough resolution images of, and few were in an art style that just didn't match or turned out to be cleverly edited photographs of real people when I looked closer, so that wasn't gonna work. But I've finished the cups now. Here they are:

Okay, so sometimes I have trouble focusing on one project....

So, I recently got Amanda into reading tarot cards. Because I like to share my obsessions. It makes everything more fun. So we've done a lot of tarot together, and of course she's seen all my decks that I've made. And she has looked around at other decks, and she found one that was done with classic pin up girls. Which she really liked the idea of, but she didn't like the deck itself. So she decided we should make a pin up deck of our own, and do it together. So that's what we've been working on.  I'm working on the Avatar deck too, don't worry, it'll all get done.  But I really loved the idea of a pin up girl deck too, so I got all excited and, well, you know how distractable I am. Anyways, I just finished the major arcana so I'm gonna post them here. Yes, I know there are two High Priestesses right now, that's cuz I haven't decided which to print yet.

First Disclaimer: The usual one. This is not my art, this is for personal use only, DO NOT steal my files and try to sell them. I will be more than happy to give them to you if you are just using them for yourself. I apologize in advance for the lack of artwork sourcing, I found these pictures in all kinds of random places online, sources just became way too difficult.

Second Disclaimer: This is artwork of sexy girls. Sometimes sexy girls don't wear clothing. You have been warned.

***EDIT***

Because it was bothering me, here is a list of artists whose art I used for my cards. This is probably not a complete list and I don't have it broken down for which artist is which card, but at least I can give some credit.

Alberto Vargas

Gil Elvgren

Bill Randall

Al Buell

Joyce Ballantyne

Peter Driben

Jules Erbit

Rolf Armstrong

Earl Moran

Art Frahm

Baron von Lind

Arthur Sarnoff

Also, the genie girl will be the High Priestess, the other girl, gorgeous as she is, just doesn't seem to match. I am vaguely considering doing a 60s-70s pulp art style deck as a companion to this one though, she'd go very well in there.