Tarot: The Sun
Sep. 8th, 2013 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyraxis
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The Sun card is like the Garden of Eden in reverse: the innocence that lies at the end of the adventure. In the story of the Major Arcana, the Fool has come through his troubles and confusion and found his way into a flowering garden where he's invited by a little boy to come play. When he takes the boy's hand, he realizes that the boy is a part of his own nature, the part which isn't held back by adult burdens. It's about rebirth and freedom, joy and creativity, and it implies connectedness to the environment and all the things that are waiting there to be discovered.
The person who draws the Sun card might be ready to look at things in a new light. Carrying the wisdom of their latest journey, they can bring a fresh perspective to whatever they set out to do.
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Date: 2013-09-09 10:35 pm (UTC)Critiques on the art- Something seems slightly off about the neck/shoulders area of the not-upside-down kid, like the shoulders aren't connected entirely right. Also wondering a bit about the sun in the background- I like that it's more stylized, kind of a cool effect, reminds me a bit of a kid's drawing. But at the same time seems a bit too clean to be a kid's drawing, but a bit too... not-quite-clean-enough(?) (gah, what are words... like how the circle for the sun is not 100% round) to seem more like a symbol or stylized thing (gah, words failing again here. XP Hopefully at least some of this is coming across). Maybe push it in one direction or another, either cleaner and less wobbly, or more like a kid's drawing? Use a different brush/texture for the lines? Because as of now a bit hard to tell what you were going for, like if it was meant to be wobbly or not or just done quickly.
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Date: 2013-09-10 02:41 am (UTC)The sun is something Pyraxis drew for Shashi the first night we met him in person. He used to copy it a lot after that. I think it would be better to make it more kid-drawing-like than cleanly stylized. I hadn't noticed that the circle wasn't quite round. Maybe it needs the lines to be thicker. I wanted it to have continuity with the red tattoo-like lines in the Fool card.
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