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One must occasionally commit . . . artwork?
Well, more accurately, concept sketch.
For a while I've been pondering designing an Egyptian-concept tarot deck, one that satisfies me with its imagery. (I'm picky.) This was given a bit of a boot recently when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thastygliax was doing various characters as tarot cards.
The image I have so far goes with the High Priestess. For those people who aren't familiar with common imagery for the High Priestess (those are three links, by the bye), she's very commonly portrayed between two pillars, a black one and a white one, and represents in part the magical intuitive journey (oddly enough, I associate the card most strongly with one of the Inanna myths, the one where she gives up all her treasures to go into the underworld and then comes back with the secrets of lots of stuff).
The image in my head didn't have the woman in the center, just the pillars. . . .
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And when I was googling for images to use for references, I found something that was almost exactly it.
To do with tinkering: bring the winged Khepri down so it's associated with the sundisk properly. Perhaps tinker with some of the lines to make the rebus more obvious (yay rebus; clearly the readings I've done about hieroglyphic layout and graphic design have gelled in my subconscious at least somewhat). Fix some of the arm proportions. Refine the design. Add the card name and number to the bottom. Refine the shading so Nephthys's clothing is dark and the innermost wingpatch is white, Isis's wing and clothing light with the innermost wingpatch dark. Also, colors.
So hush,oneironaut, and stop nagging at me about that stuff. ;)
(Armclasp in part creditteinedreugan, who let me borrow one of his arms and pose it and peer at the result. Yes, I do stare at my hands when drawing hands and similar suchlikes, why do you ask?)
In other news: turned in my take-home test at the hospital, had blood drawn for the rest of it, and don't have to worry about my kidneys for the next couple of weeks. Finally managed to finish part 15 last night, may try to get 16 done today if I can figure out what it is.
For a while I've been pondering designing an Egyptian-concept tarot deck, one that satisfies me with its imagery. (I'm picky.) This was given a bit of a boot recently when
thastygliax was doing various characters as tarot cards.The image I have so far goes with the High Priestess. For those people who aren't familiar with common imagery for the High Priestess (those are three links, by the bye), she's very commonly portrayed between two pillars, a black one and a white one, and represents in part the magical intuitive journey (oddly enough, I associate the card most strongly with one of the Inanna myths, the one where she gives up all her treasures to go into the underworld and then comes back with the secrets of lots of stuff).
The image in my head didn't have the woman in the center, just the pillars. . . .
And when I was googling for images to use for references, I found something that was almost exactly it.
To do with tinkering: bring the winged Khepri down so it's associated with the sundisk properly. Perhaps tinker with some of the lines to make the rebus more obvious (yay rebus; clearly the readings I've done about hieroglyphic layout and graphic design have gelled in my subconscious at least somewhat). Fix some of the arm proportions. Refine the design. Add the card name and number to the bottom. Refine the shading so Nephthys's clothing is dark and the innermost wingpatch is white, Isis's wing and clothing light with the innermost wingpatch dark. Also, colors.
So hush,
oneironaut, and stop nagging at me about that stuff. ;)(Armclasp in part credit
teinedreugan, who let me borrow one of his arms and pose it and peer at the result. Yes, I do stare at my hands when drawing hands and similar suchlikes, why do you ask?)In other news: turned in my take-home test at the hospital, had blood drawn for the rest of it, and don't have to worry about my kidneys for the next couple of weeks. Finally managed to finish part 15 last night, may try to get 16 done today if I can figure out what it is.