Tarot: Ace of Coins

[pyraxis]

I'm back to working on the Karnese Tarot project. I'm not sure why this is calling me so much more strongly than the 3d character modeling project did. Maybe it's just easier on the brain - painting is much more focused than 3d work, where you keep needing to jump between aggressive experimentation (to learn the software), visual eye (to make it look good), technical fiddling (to figure out which tools to use for what), and the big picture (because otherwise it's very easy to waste time on detail that's never actually seen). Maybe it's because it's all soft skills. Maybe because the pressure's off.

I'm still going to keep working towards 3d, but meanwhile here is another tarot painting.



The meaning of the card (coins and pentacles are equivalent)

He is tiroth, who are jungle folk and crafters. Also very easily distracted by pretty shiny colourful things. :)

I noticed while I was working on this, how similar the composition was to a pen-and-ink I did six years ago. It was my "before" therapy drawing. The first session, he asked me to draw where I currently stood, what had brought me to therapy. I said I'd already done it and after resistance made my hands pull out the sketchbook and show him.



It is striking how the shape of inspiration has changed.

Comments

[pyraxis]

This is awesome, thank you! :D Yeah, exactly the kind of information that helps.

Maybe I should have made his hands more like digging instead of cupped around the heart. But that was how it felt to me, the epiphany and the sense of preciousness. I'm curious why to you it seemed very different than the written card description, because to me that's what the epiphany was about, reconnecting with that sense of groundedness and the desire to grow and create. I'm wondering now what this card would mean for somebody who wasn't disconnected from their desire to create.

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

Oh, so I was getting the same meaning from the card as you had intent for its meaning, but I didn't get the same understanding from the "definition" you linked to?
Now that is interesting!

I will go back and take a look at that definition then...

[pyraxis]

I guess that means it worked, in a way :)

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is what I thought too!