The new version of The Tower illustrates how disaster can come out of the blue. The peaceful horizons of a pastoral scene is being suddenly and unexpectedly interrupted by disaster. Even in Tarot, some things just come out of nowhere.
You can imagine the shockwave of thousands of tons of stone slamming into earth. No ma...
2024-02-12 23:57:55 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a while since I was working on stuff from scratch and I totally flaked on posting about it here!
The Tower card I had illustrated before was my least favorite from the series and one of the places where I felt like I would have regrets if I didn't spend a little extra time creating revisions. I'm much happier...
This one took a while but I'm really happy with it.
Looking back over all the edits that added up over these past couple of weeks, I realized that I ended up fully repainting it ala ship of Theseus. Honestly, if I knew I was going to just repaint every single pixel of this thing, I would have just started over.
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Finishing this up has been amazing. This piece has reinforced for me that these revisions were a good idea. Looking at these last couple of pieces gives me a lot of confidence in my ability as an artist.
Rounding the new year with this momentum is motivating me to push forward every day on painting and planning for eve...
This is starting to look way more exciting through a lens than those early screenshots.
2024-01-05 21:07:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This was the card that inspired me to consider making changes after I finished with the Major Arcana. Not because I was dissatisfied with the painting, but because I forgot to add an important symbol in the original version.
Looking back on this piece though, I am not satisfied with the level of painting that I had done...
2024-01-03 14:45:03 +0000 UTC View Post
When I first painted the Hierophant card in 2022, I thought I was finishing a really strong piece. Part of that feeling came from my fact that the color palette was shared with one of my most iconic pieces, and part of that came from my recent turn back toward making everything by hand after my stint with AI. Looking back on ...
2024-01-01 21:04:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been addressing these pieces in batches rather than finishing one and then moving on to the next one.
The Empress is a piece that I've revised multiple times now. This time I'm confident that I'm on the right track. The difference this time is that I'm basing it off one of the existing Angels from the collection fo...
2023-12-20 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
More than anything, I want the Hierophant to feel more grand!
In addition to cleaning up some stylistic choices, I am rebuilding the composition to create the feeling of power and awe that Armaros deserves. It's still a little rough, but I wanted to share the current state of things to show what the step between breakin...
2023-12-18 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I was very happy with the creative choices in this piece, but I was unhappy with the underlying structure. There was something about the pose of the old version that felt very un-emperor-like to me. My failure here didn't have to do with AI, but with a lack of reference gathering that was also happening during this period. 2023-12-16 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
At some point, I'm going to have to create a unified scene to pop all these guys into so that you can get a really good look at them. As it stands, each sculptor has their own unique way of sharing images with me and it's not a look that is ready for the public.
However, these things are are looking very sweat and you p...
2023-12-14 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The inspiration to revise this image was twofold. Part of it involved wanting to replace the AI generated bits in the background and the other part was a desire to revise the strange geometric elements that aren't present anywhere else in the series.
When I went to make these changes, I began to fix little bits all over...
2023-12-13 22:28:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
Last month I wrapped up the last card in the Major Arcana, but I don't feel like I've completed this set yet.
Over the time I've been working on this series, a lot of things have been changing for me. This is the largest series in the collection to date and the huge amount of time it has taken to compl...
2023-12-02 13:32:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm slow as always, but I always catch up eventually :) The downloadable content is all up on the Dropbox here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qj1bbq1putlz0os/AABCiWE8xlx-5HT_mRcZEBbpa?dl=0
For those...
2023-11-10 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Reversed card (keywords): Disharmony, Imbalance, Misalignment of values, Self-love
Upright card (keywords): Being at a crossroads, Choices, Commitment, Falling in love, Partnerships
The Lovers represent relationships and choices. Its appeara...
2023-11-10 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
There's been a lot of progress on the sculpture side of things. Simikiel is the first one to get finished but I have works in progress for Armaros, Gadreel, and Hasmed all very far along. Once they are complete, I'll be setting up a nice looking render scene for them to show them off in a consistent way. For the time being, e...
2023-11-10 01:05:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The final stages of these paintings has felt increasingly heavy to complete.
I've got my theories why they seem to have gotten progressively more difficult over the years rather than easier but no one explanation feels fully satisfactory. One interesting theory is that through a combination of switching to progressively...
2023-11-10 00:40:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Before I even got a chance to post the first work in progress images, I got sucked back into working on this piece and got a rough color palette out of it.
If you caught me working on on this on Twitch yesterday, then you probably saw me struggling with the colors. The reason why I wasn't able to get them done was becau...
2023-10-17 10:41:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I was at a loss as to how I was going to illustrate this card for a long time, since I didn't really have a good vision for an Angel from my collection involved in romantic love. Azazel might have worked, but he's already on the strength card.
Thankfully, a patron on here sent me a DM about his preference for this card ...
2023-10-17 10:36:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there, here's an update on this wing of the Angelarium project.
After I shared the Raziel mini here on Patreon I had to stop and reassess how I planned on moving forward with these. I love making them and I believe that there is a market for them, but that first piece was a minor failure. Thankfully, the support I g...
2023-10-13 21:31:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm kinda lost in this new version of Patreon and I've been a bit scattered recently, so I can't tell if I posted the works in progress on The Chariot or not.
This was a really tough piece since it required drawing a lot of animal anatomy that I'm not familiar with. But after many hours of pouring over reference and ma...
The Chariot is a card about overcoming conflicts and moving forward in a positive direction. One needs to keep going on and through sheer hard work and commitment he will be victorious.
Upright card (keywords): A journey, Ambition, Confidence, Drive, Overcoming obstacles, Will power
Revers...
2023-10-13 21:13:12 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/angelarium/angelarium-oracle-of-the-fallen?ref=project_build
The long-delayed second Oracle deck is now live on Kickstarter! If you're one of ...
2023-09-18 11:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I've just double checked to make sure all the latest files are in place on the Dropbox. If you want to check that out, here it is:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qj1bbq1putlz0os/AABCiWE8xlx-5HT_mRcZEBbpa?dl=0<...
2023-09-11 13:25:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Strength predicts the triumphant conclusion to a major life problem, situation or temptation through strength of character. It is a very happy card if you are fighting illness or recovering from injury.
Upright card (keywords): Confidence, Enjoying power, Inner strength, Potency, Self-belief, Virility, ...
2023-09-04 11:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post
After only a few days of poking around on this painting, I'm finding my self making a list of last minute corrections before I begin finalizing everything. Starting with a strong sketch always ends of smoothing out the process quite a bit. It's something I'm putting as a top priority for all my work going forward, especially ...
2023-08-24 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
There was a lot of back and forth trying to figure out what I was going to do with the colors on this one. You can see the extensive experimentation in the form of the oil slick like dabs of different colors throughout the work.
Ultimately, I chose to divert from the values I had laid out earlier in the process and flip...
2023-08-23 12:05:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there,
The plush campaign keeps moving forward bit by bit! It's a bit of an odd thing based on the style of my work, but it's something I'm really happy to have worked on. Throughout the design process, I worked really closely with Makeship to make Azrael exactly how I imagined them to be. Now, the final step is to ...
2023-08-21 11:21:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I was working on sketches over my vacation, so now that I'm getting caught up on all my backlog, I'm finally taking a look at these drawings to see if they are good enough to complete the few remaining cards for the Major Arcana.
Personally, I am super happy to have this sketch. This feels like a slam dunk. The plan is ...
2023-08-18 13:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm on an upward swing after falling behind and I'm going to be rolling straight into the final pieces for the Major Arcana ASAP. This is technically a couple of weeks late, so you might see another post like this pretty soon.
Part of posting this month's rewards involved looking through old requests for missing content...
2023-08-18 13:03:52 +0000 UTC View Post
