HudsonGray
I've had burnout part of the summer on some of the cards--but I forced myself to get back in the saddle & take a stab at the ones that were giving me trouble yet.
Hurray! I actually got 3 solid pencil sketches down last night (only took four hours...) and a potential replacement for one of the others that I wasn't as fond of, so I count that as forward progress. That leaves 3 cards left to do and one other to replace one I didn't like the image of yet. Then maybe a meeting with the printer can get going.
The Knight of Swords was my best, I've got him in a homemade flying machine up in the air, all feathers/leather/metal having a grand old time (goggles on even) while another watches wide-eyed from the ground.
The Page of Swords was simpler, it's the 'runs with scissors' card and sometimes those kind of kids can tick people off. This one shows a soaking wet ferret who's been water ballooned (with 4 more being lobbed at him in the card). I think it works. I think. Give me time.
And I have to thank Disney for the 8 of Pentacles. I was wracking my brain trying to figure how to show a ferret in the middle of a 'total attention learning experience' and as an apprentice. Umm...it's different enough from the Mickey Mouse scene from the Sorcerer's Apprentice though, so Disney's lawyers won't be upset. This is a young ferret (with wizard cap) giving his all with a book of knowledge & his wand (sparkles are growing around him) while in the background the wizard ferret has this horrible NO-NO-NOOO! being screamed as he runs to stop whatever the apprentice is 100% engaged on doing from those pages. They don't wear clothes other than the hats (I tried to keep them ferrety ferrets, not going too far into cartoon).
It's just that damned 10 of Cups that's got me stymied! And a few others.
Anyway, they're getting inked in tonight, and maybe I'll get enough inspiration to get pencil roughs out on the rest of the cards.
Hurray! I actually got 3 solid pencil sketches down last night (only took four hours...) and a potential replacement for one of the others that I wasn't as fond of, so I count that as forward progress. That leaves 3 cards left to do and one other to replace one I didn't like the image of yet. Then maybe a meeting with the printer can get going.
The Knight of Swords was my best, I've got him in a homemade flying machine up in the air, all feathers/leather/metal having a grand old time (goggles on even) while another watches wide-eyed from the ground.
The Page of Swords was simpler, it's the 'runs with scissors' card and sometimes those kind of kids can tick people off. This one shows a soaking wet ferret who's been water ballooned (with 4 more being lobbed at him in the card). I think it works. I think. Give me time.
And I have to thank Disney for the 8 of Pentacles. I was wracking my brain trying to figure how to show a ferret in the middle of a 'total attention learning experience' and as an apprentice. Umm...it's different enough from the Mickey Mouse scene from the Sorcerer's Apprentice though, so Disney's lawyers won't be upset. This is a young ferret (with wizard cap) giving his all with a book of knowledge & his wand (sparkles are growing around him) while in the background the wizard ferret has this horrible NO-NO-NOOO! being screamed as he runs to stop whatever the apprentice is 100% engaged on doing from those pages. They don't wear clothes other than the hats (I tried to keep them ferrety ferrets, not going too far into cartoon).
It's just that damned 10 of Cups that's got me stymied! And a few others.
Anyway, they're getting inked in tonight, and maybe I'll get enough inspiration to get pencil roughs out on the rest of the cards.
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