Cute and Small and Ready to Brawl

I have a long way to go, but I’m nearly done with the major arcana.

Here are some of my favorites:

I set myself a design challenge (as I often do). I wanted to limit the color palette and the brush styles to create a very consistent look.

And since each card focuses on black cats, it forces me to think deeply about symbolism and design to make sure the meaning of each card is clear and each design is unique.

But there’s still a lot of variety coming through. It’s not all class, or all silliness - just like cats

I have a forearm tattoo of the cats in this one ☝️

I’m so happy with how both of these two managed to feel dark, but adorable at the same time.

And then there’s this one absolute diva:

Most of these used my own feline friends for reference.

Much more to come soon!

Yet another redraw for the @poketcg-art event! I'm so happy I could manage to snatch up a card for Hoenn during the first checkpoint, Hoenn was my first pokémon game and Cacnea one of the very first figurines I owned <3 I've been enjoying painting digitally and using limited palettes, and making this was a real party.

Original card by Tika Matsuno, Poketcg-art's scan of the card is below!

Also a gif of my progress below the cut, so you can watch my scary flats turn into an adorable cutiepie in just a few layers:

The administrators of that extremely early city had to keep track of lots of things, and doing this by memory alone was a nightmare. These spreadsheets were devised as a solution to that as an evolution of an earlier system that used clay tokens and balls.

Red crested cardinal, originally from South America, Zebra Dove originally from Australia, Meadowlark from N America, and Shama from Malaysia. We went on hikes that were reported to have the native honeycreepers, but the Merlin sound ID only picked up Japanese white eye and Japanese bush warbler, which have both been introduced to the islands. Apparently the introduced mosquitoes and the disease they carry have been killing off the honeycreepers. Despite i’iwi decorating many tourist items, I doubt many tourists have seen them. I found an organization that is trying to help the honeycreepers: https://kauaiforestbirds.org/

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got a new camera to take on walks/hikes so i can take my own reference/inspo photos - just in time for my juneberry trees to ripen their fruit :)