#mini project

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I have my process for this under the list that might make what I chose make a bit more sense? Because even I will admit this looks so random in so many ways.

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The assignments:

As I go through and start drawing each of these I’ll probably elaborate more on them individually and why a character was assigned to them. This is already a long post… or maybe I’ll have a separate one explaining the reasons.

0. The Fool- Rivetcore

1. The Magician- Dropmix

2. The High Priestess- Valkyrie

3. The Empress- Overstrike

4. The Emperor- Rumbleclutch

5. The Hierophant- Triton

6. The Lovers- Echo

7. The Chariot- Leoblast

8. Strength- Jeopardy

9. The Hermit- Nova

10. The Wheel of Fortune- Torque

11. Justice- Volley

12. The Hanged Man- Tempestrift

13. Death- Torrent

14. Temperance- Sunrazor (Prewar)

15. The Devil- Sunrazor (war)

16. The Tower- Saberfire

17. The Star- Crossflier

18. The Moon- Powercase

19. The Sun- Rapidstrike

20. Judgement- Theremin

21. The World- Bluerunner

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The process:

There is no right or wrong way to do this. At least I hope so. From what I’ve seen of other people doing character Tarot cards sometimes they just pick a title or card that generally matches the vibe of the character? And at first that’s what I was also doing.

But I assume most people looking at this know my characters which means you know me and are aware that I have a tendency to deep dive. So, you’re absolutely right, I did end up making it more complicated than it needed to be.

I started looking into the meanings and symbolism of each card, both the upright and reversed positions. Lots of research ended up happening because the simple, couple of words descriptions never really gave me enough to go off of. Which slowed the process down and also made some of the ones that I thought would be obvious no longer make sense.

An example: I was hyped to use Dropmix for either the Justice or Judgement card, which I think only the mutual tagged above will understand fully right now. But, based off of the cards meanings it really didn’t fit his character, and in the end I feel very satisfied with the one he got.

Another thing that complicated the process was the fact that their upright and reversed meanings are often just that, opposites. But I’m trying to match both sides to the characters. Thankfully a lot of my characters have conflict and are rather hypocritical at times so it works. There are also some concepts that tended to be rather vague that I just tried to pretend I understood.

The final portion of this was picking characters. Originally I wanted to do all of the characters that I perceive as “main” characters. Which made me fall short of the 22 needed. So then I had to start selecting which side characters to use. Originally I brought all of the death muppets in only to realize that the slots I needed filled didn’t really match the characters. Same thing for if I brought in only the guardian siblings.

So that’s why this whole thing turned into a big ole mess and it really is just a random handful of characters. I had to scrap some characters that I wanted to list because nothing fit them and drag in others I didn’t think I would be to fill in those slots.

Also, I will be trying to incorporate as much of the original layout, themes, and symbols of the original cards as I can when I go to design them. However since I have just one character per card and I’m not intending on bringing in nearly as much religious subtexts into this (like specific angels) they will not be very… exact to each card?