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Entry tags:
- art,
- fanart,
- harry potter,
- tarot,
- wip
HP Tarot card progress - The Magician, The High Priestess
Painting for The Fool is already underway, but I went on ahead with the next two cards because I didn't want to lose the sketch energy I had going while I'm neck-deep in fiddly paint.
* Drawing old people is fun :D I did these two together because I want them to "go together" in certain ways (as will the Empress and Emperor). Hopefully enough of Dumbledore's twinkle comes through at this size, since the "real card" would be even smaller...
* You can't see it very much right now (...if ever ._.) but I put in a bumblebee amongst the roses and lilies on the desk's front panel because "Dumbledore" means "bumblebee" and it just suits the card. :3 The side panel is either a phoenix or a dragon I haven't quite decided yet.
* Obviously, The High Priestess has sprouted a lot more elements since the initial design.Since it was feeling so barren I played around with the idea of including the doe patronus as a vague misty feature to fill up space, and I'm pretty satisfied with it here even though it's more prominent than I intended. It also kind of contributes to the lunar association since deer are sacred to Artemis and all that. Left that out due to feedback from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ctrl_a. It's emptier but more peaceful now.
* I spontaneously got the idea to add in willow trees, because it's the wood of Lily's wand, and because "weeping" willows are kind of somber/underworld-y, and because they're one of my favorite trees (having grown up with them all around the West Lake :3) But then I found out that to the Celts/Druids, willow is associated with water, the moon, and enhancing psychic abilities, so, WELP.
(And no, I'm not going to do the sketches for all the cards before I turn out a finished one!)
* Drawing old people is fun :D I did these two together because I want them to "go together" in certain ways (as will the Empress and Emperor). Hopefully enough of Dumbledore's twinkle comes through at this size, since the "real card" would be even smaller...
* You can't see it very much right now (...if ever ._.) but I put in a bumblebee amongst the roses and lilies on the desk's front panel because "Dumbledore" means "bumblebee" and it just suits the card. :3 The side panel is either a phoenix or a dragon I haven't quite decided yet.
* Obviously, The High Priestess has sprouted a lot more elements since the initial design.
ctrl_a. It's emptier but more peaceful now.* I spontaneously got the idea to add in willow trees, because it's the wood of Lily's wand, and because "weeping" willows are kind of somber/underworld-y, and because they're one of my favorite trees (having grown up with them all around the West Lake :3) But then I found out that to the Celts/Druids, willow is associated with water, the moon, and enhancing psychic abilities, so, WELP.
(And no, I'm not going to do the sketches for all the cards before I turn out a finished one!)