EthanJamesPetty
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EthanJamesPetty said:I feel a little bit like the boy who cried wolf because I had started a long-dead thread here years back where I was starting a card revamp. However, I wasn't 100% happy with it, but now that I've got much more capability to acheive my vision, I'm starting it up again!
The Deck of the Dreamers was a complete deck (major and minor) about 10 years ago, but suffered from weak artwork, some missing symbolism, and extremely low resolution. I plan to remake the entire thing, keeping what worked, scrapping what didn't and adding the small details to better match the intent of the tarot card. I am posting here because this community was a big help to me in the past and I'd love any feedback you have.
I've posted the entire original low-res deck as well as the new HD artwork at http://www.somethingseeps.com . I guess what I'd like to know, from anyone who is interested in this deck, is which of the old cards just don't work at all (for example, I will likely do a total remake of the Lovers, the Devil, and Temperence), which cards I should try to keep the same, or any blatantly missing/wrong symbolism that hurts the meaning of the card. As you'll see, I have a work in progress section for the card I'm currently working on, so the symbolism comments would probably be most useful for the current card. I appreciate any feedback you can give me!
SakuraFae said:I use lots of colors and background images to pop out at me when reading. Although it may not be your style, and I respect that and like what you've done with or without my feedback, you asked and I say "Don't forget about the background, it may just be an extra swirl or different _hand_ but much like looking at clouds... things sometimes pop out of the background more than the main image."
HOLMES said:one thing that really attracted me to your deck was the original magican,, the one where he had the kooky face and not that serious face on the far left of your deck.
HOLMES said:for example of how to not be able to please everyone,, i dislike unillustrated pips, and prefer even half illustrated pips olike the the toth then just pips. if you go the picture way for pips i would be surely able to buy your deck (even though you killled my magican i loved so much ).
HOLMES said:please make it a deck of the dreamers tarot and not an oracle.
EthanJamesPetty said:I finally finished the Empress card. Yes, I realize it looks a bit like she has a shower massager. I'll probably go back and decorate it a bit more when I do a polish-pass for production.
http://deckofthedreamers.com/iii-the-empress/?preview=true&preview_id=64&preview_nonce=334375922f