Some Other Remarks

ONE You might notice I'm updating at a rather quick pace. This will slacken now that I've updated the Twos. Still working on the Threes, though hopefully they'll be done by tomorrow or the day after that. Though to be honest, things really are progressing pretty fast with this project. That's because a lot of time has been removed from the process. Just to explain further: say, it takes a hypothetical hour to finish a particular work. 50% of this time, I devote to the brainstorming process - not even getting a final image of how the deck should look like since I never could get a hang of that particular skill, but brainstorming as in experimenting with forms and poses and the like until it achieves a look I find just right. In the case of this particular deck, that has been removed, since this is essentially a Rider-Waite-Smith Clone. Much of the general layout, poses, forms, clothing, have been retained, though rendered in a style less flat when compared to the original.

I'm thinking of submitting this to potential publishers, so maybe I should also think of seeing whether their resolution requirements are filled. Currently, the images are pretty small, only 4.75 by 7.75 at 600dpi (though perhaps still bigger than the standard).

TWO I also started this so I can hopefully practice speaking off the top of my head. Like what I said in my first post, my other blogs have become very restrictive for me, so I don't get to practice expressing much of myself (even on the net). The result's that I have a general idea of what to say, can't get around to typing it in a coherent form.

THREE Someone suggested Dark Rider and Twilight Tarot as names for the deck. Both sound nice. I especially like Dark Rider since it gets to be an homage to the name of the original (though it's Rider-Waite-Smith in full nowadays) AND it could refer to the Death card in the deck which is thus far my favourite in this series. Twilight's also good, though some might think it's a marketing ploy to cash in on the success of the Twilight series of books.