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Medieval Furry Tarot? Tentative Commissions?
9 years ago
General
One of my favorite things is collecting tarot decks -- it is a fun way to support artists and you get 20-80 individual art pieces each time you buy one! Over the past decade, I have acquired (via gifts, kickstarters, amazon, etc.) 19 decks. I only read from two or three but I love looking through the individual cards and admiring my hoard haha. As far as collections go, it all fits on a shelf and you get a lot for your money, so I'm pleased with it haha.
As such, the major art project I have wanted to do for many years is create my own deck. I found a site that creates them and can ship them individually for ~$30/deck, so even if no one else wants to buy one, I could get it made for myself.
Lately, I've seen more and more artists here and on dA actually doing commissions for each card, which would help to provide the variety of characters/themes that my previous attempt lacked. There are also a good number of anthro decks, so I would be able to draw in the style I liked without worrying that it would look weird or out-of-place.
I'm getting back into the swing with art now and feel like I'm caught up enough I can start doing restricted commissions like this again without feeling frustrated with my work quality, but I'm hesitating to open them officially for whatever subject matter/characters anyone wants unless people express interest and I like what they want me to draw. I still want to focus on doing art that I enjoy since I won't make enough money for it to be any sort of real income, but a project like this shouldn't make me burn out since I will be picky on characters.
Most of the money from this tarot project and any future commission would go straight into commissioning other people xD I forgot how addictive art was while I was away.
This would be a long-term project (my goal would be to complete it in 1-2 years, which with 72 cards would mean one card each week, give or take for vacations/injuries/if I get really into it), and I would not take orders for the actual deck until I was certain everything would be completed and available.
I would probably charge $25/minor arcana card and $30/major arcana, with different prices for multi-character cards, and it would be in the style of this drawing here, with the fine lines and individual hairs (or scales). If you wanted the actual deck if/when it was completed (if I get a few commissioners, I would definitely complete it), I would contact commissioners of the cards when it was available/list it on my sites and you could choose to purchase it then, or choose just to keep your card only and not buy the deck.
The theme of the deck would be based in the medieval fantasy world canonical Patrick, Silvie, Tsura, etc. are from. More information here.
As such, everyone would be drawn in medieval-styled attire suiting their role in the deck. Backgrounds would be limited but also of that era. Commissioners would be able to suggest outfits (armor/dress style, colors) and buy however many slots they want, but each card would have to contain a different character (apart from the major arcana cards that would contain our canonical characters).
The rules for the characters would be the same as are listed in the informational link above, but I will copy them here for clarity:
*No humans, taur, ferals, or anything with a specialty bodyshape.
*No characters with really unnatural designs (bright accents of colors like Tsura/Dyanne's hair or tattoos are fine, but no hot pink wolves with lime green hair/etc.). I would be willing to adjust designs to make your character fit into the world if you wanted, within reason (i.e. making your character's striped hair into a more solid shade, changing
*No excessive hybrids (2-3 animals in an understandable design/adding wings to a normal character is generally fine, but no wolf/lizard/sharks with wings and 3 different tails)
*No excessive muscles (I'm not good at drawing macho characters and I don't want to make your character look bad!)
*Characters can have magic (depending on the card), but it can only be one color (no awesome rainbow magic) and minor.
*Characters can be noblepeople, but no high royalty.
You would be consenting to me selling this deck if I eventually felt it was in a good position to sell. I would not claim the characters as my own and would keep a list in a journal here and in each submission of who owns what character.
Would anyone have any interest in something like this? I can post a journal where people sign up later if enough people express interest.
As such, the major art project I have wanted to do for many years is create my own deck. I found a site that creates them and can ship them individually for ~$30/deck, so even if no one else wants to buy one, I could get it made for myself.
Lately, I've seen more and more artists here and on dA actually doing commissions for each card, which would help to provide the variety of characters/themes that my previous attempt lacked. There are also a good number of anthro decks, so I would be able to draw in the style I liked without worrying that it would look weird or out-of-place.
I'm getting back into the swing with art now and feel like I'm caught up enough I can start doing restricted commissions like this again without feeling frustrated with my work quality, but I'm hesitating to open them officially for whatever subject matter/characters anyone wants unless people express interest and I like what they want me to draw. I still want to focus on doing art that I enjoy since I won't make enough money for it to be any sort of real income, but a project like this shouldn't make me burn out since I will be picky on characters.
Most of the money from this tarot project and any future commission would go straight into commissioning other people xD I forgot how addictive art was while I was away.
This would be a long-term project (my goal would be to complete it in 1-2 years, which with 72 cards would mean one card each week, give or take for vacations/injuries/if I get really into it), and I would not take orders for the actual deck until I was certain everything would be completed and available.
I would probably charge $25/minor arcana card and $30/major arcana, with different prices for multi-character cards, and it would be in the style of this drawing here, with the fine lines and individual hairs (or scales). If you wanted the actual deck if/when it was completed (if I get a few commissioners, I would definitely complete it), I would contact commissioners of the cards when it was available/list it on my sites and you could choose to purchase it then, or choose just to keep your card only and not buy the deck.
The theme of the deck would be based in the medieval fantasy world canonical Patrick, Silvie, Tsura, etc. are from. More information here.
As such, everyone would be drawn in medieval-styled attire suiting their role in the deck. Backgrounds would be limited but also of that era. Commissioners would be able to suggest outfits (armor/dress style, colors) and buy however many slots they want, but each card would have to contain a different character (apart from the major arcana cards that would contain our canonical characters).
The rules for the characters would be the same as are listed in the informational link above, but I will copy them here for clarity:
*No humans, taur, ferals, or anything with a specialty bodyshape.
*No characters with really unnatural designs (bright accents of colors like Tsura/Dyanne's hair or tattoos are fine, but no hot pink wolves with lime green hair/etc.). I would be willing to adjust designs to make your character fit into the world if you wanted, within reason (i.e. making your character's striped hair into a more solid shade, changing
*No excessive hybrids (2-3 animals in an understandable design/adding wings to a normal character is generally fine, but no wolf/lizard/sharks with wings and 3 different tails)
*No excessive muscles (I'm not good at drawing macho characters and I don't want to make your character look bad!)
*Characters can have magic (depending on the card), but it can only be one color (no awesome rainbow magic) and minor.
*Characters can be noblepeople, but no high royalty.
You would be consenting to me selling this deck if I eventually felt it was in a good position to sell. I would not claim the characters as my own and would keep a list in a journal here and in each submission of who owns what character.
Would anyone have any interest in something like this? I can post a journal where people sign up later if enough people express interest.
Look out in the next few days and I'll post a journal with actual details.