Deck Creations

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(I accept the name's probably nonsense if you know Latin, I just liked the sound of it, sorry!) My second art project, a gift for my partner's birthday last year (they loved it!) Again - majors only. This one is a direct Noblet clone. I did my best to parse out some of the nonsensical cloth folds, and where I couldn't figure out what the heck's going on I just simplified it down. This one has proportions that makes it easily fit into the available "tarot size" sleeves (turns out tarot cards have been assigned the dimensions of 7x12cm by sleeve manufacturers). It doesn't show up too well in the pictures, but the various halos and background elements are painted…

A while ago I was working on a couple of decks (Tarot and Lenormand) for my own personal use, which I got printed out, and have recently been looking at them again. I used the CBD Tarot de Marseille by Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov as the basis for my Tarot decks, originally just as an exercise to edit them and recolour them digitally. After completing that project, though, I decided to create an alternate set of Majors, based on my own interest in re-ordering the sequence of the cards. I reordered the Majors based around the Wheel of Fortune as a ‘centre-point’ card, around which the others form different sequences and mirrored sequences. Do…

Hand drawn Marseille Tarot Set.

I got distracted and forgot to post my most recent full 78-card deck! This was a challenge I posed to myself - trying to make a deck from a single magazine, Shadowplay issue 6. I liked the color schemes in there and it had plenty of people in various poses for it to be plausible. Not enough to make a full set of scenic cards, but combined with some pips with interesting backgrounds it actually turned out quite serviceable. I enjoy reading with it, even thought it's a little simpler than something I'd design completely from scratch if I had complete freedom to create whatever I wanted. (Granted, if I were to try that I simply wouldn't make a deck at all, getting stuck on t…

My third creation - another all-majors deck, this time executed in collage. I like the feel of the images, they carry a weight of human history and culture. I haven't numbered or named them but I frankenstein-ed a picture of them all in order, so you can more easily see what's what (if you're not fussy about your Strength and Justice cards). I'm not entirely sure if that's who it is, but the statue on the box lid made me think of Pastoral Apollo, who I associate with his oracular domain.

Thought I'd share some of my deck creations (sorry if this is the wrong place, I saw three possibilities and decided as physical art objects I don't intend to sell or mass-produce they could probably fit here?) This is the first one I did, around this time last year. I call it the Candyfloss Keys - a majors only experiment in mixed media. I pulled out some of my Marseille decks for inspiration (mostly Soprafino and whatever the Piatnik Marseille deck is doing). I hadn't yet figured what a good way of protecting the surfaces would be. I used clear contact paper at first but after a little while it just came off because of the rough texture of the gesso. Since t…

I'm not sure if I still have permissions to use the artwork, but the text is mine. I am very interested in finding a new artist to illustrate my text for a completely new deck. Most of the correspondences, I hope, will be easily understood by hardcore Lovecraft fans. I'll be happy to answer any questions. MAJOR ARCANA: 0: The Fool -- Azathoth; the Idiot God dancing at the Center of the Universe I: The Magician -- Nyarlathotep; the wizard, the "Black Man" of the Witches' Sabbath II: The High Priestess (in "Egyptian Tarots, "The Gate of the Sanctuary") -- Yog-Sothoth; “Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth i…

I written in a thread about writing guidebooks for decks, that I have . . . begun writing a guidebook for my deck to understand it easier. I draw as a hobby and I felt that drawing the decks would help me remember them better (it actually doesnt because a couple months later i have forgotten a lot :c). I have been consistent enough to want to just make my own TDM deck because I feel it would probably be . . . "more mine", that is, more of my essence and intention would have been poured into it. I did the trumps and started some of the coins. I dont know how to post a bunch of pictures without it looking obnoxious so here are a few of my favorites:

I designed this deck, under Rabbinical authorization, back in 1987. I was fortunate to have been allowed to study Qabalah, and mentioned to one of my study partners the correspondences some have made between Tarot & Qabalah. The more we examined it, the more interesting the possibilities became. Ultimately, the school itself printed up a bunch of blank cards for me to draw this deck. FWIW, the "TORA TARO" name is theirs, I prefer "Altneu Qabalah."

A while ago, before the media frenzy on anything related to Artificial Intelligence began in earnest, I made my own Lenormand deck using generative AI. These days I'm not sure I'd do the same, given how badly the tide of public opinion has turned against it, but I needed something copyright-free for the phone app I was developing. Here's a few of the cards I came up with. Most are as the AI generated them, but some are lightly edited to correct minor issues. I added the titles, numbers and card suits manually.

This is a super unusual Oracle deck 🙂 I created the art for it in my 20's when I was backpacking across Eastern Europe, and almost entirely on A5 paper using pencil and ballpoint pen. The "main character" of the deck is The Inner Mask, a being whose face is a mask that looks within itself, and is driven by the question "who am I?" Thanks for looking 🙂 🙂

Hello y'all! Not sure whether to put this here or in the Deck Creator's Lounge or both. 🙂 In the spirit of hidden meanings, this deck is made as a Welsh road sign memory match game with the Hebrew alphabet, with 22 matches (44 cards). The story of the pictures: I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, then spent another half of my life in Ireland; about a year ago we moved from Ireland, across the Atlantic ocean a second time, to Oklahoma. On the trip we visited Edinburgh Scotland, London, and Wales. I was enamoured by the Welsh road signs, and took many pictures of them (the crown achievement being the badger warning sign, the top left…

Hey all! Been working on my first deck which at least for now I'm calling the "Tarot Obscura". It's influenced a lot by lithography and medieval woodcuts. Here's some WIP shots of my favorites in the suit of wands and cups! Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated, I'm entirely new to this! These are the originals, I'm still gonna do some tidying up in photoshop:

The tarot is an established system of images. I wished to see whether an AI image generating program would produce meaningful results from the card names. Wether or not the produced images would comply with the established meanings and iconography of the tarot in an artistic and meaningful way. I used the WOMBO DREAM app, free from the playstore. I made the cards using only a typed prompt and a chosen preset style. The prompt format was always the theme (fluffy bunny) and the card name. eg. fluffy bunny, the fool fluffy bunny, the magician and so on. I would be open to any comments, both on the method I used and t…

Hi everybody ! I'm too excited to show you my own tarot : the Arcanya Tarot ! Maybe someone on this forum already heard about it !? 😃 Like a said in my presentation topic, I'm crazy about Tarot AND role playing games, espacially about Fantasy. And I'm just simply... crazy, too. 😅 So when I started to create the first illustrations, I had the idea the create a whole entire universe, with an Emperor, a Magician, a real godess called "Justice", etc... I wrote a novel about an amazing story about all these characters ! This took me a more than a year. I took more than 2 years to study tarot, all the symbols in each arcana, and in several languages, especially …

Hi, I have designed the Major Arcana and wanted to gather people’s oppions as to wether I should design the entire Tarot deck. Please go easy on me as this is my very first deck I have designed though I have previously designed a fantasy board game. I do appologise for the format and I do hope I am not infringing any rules by posting this way. The images are protected in this format from people clicking on them to copy. I do hope you enjoy them and look forward to hearing your responses and any suggestions you may have. Many thanks for your time. Cheers Colin

Hello tarot community! I am excited to share with you my first tarot deck project, the Cyber Seeker Tarot Deck. This 78 card deck brings a unique and modern twist to traditional tarot, incorporating elements of technology, science fiction, and dystopian themes. Each card is carefully designed with intricate details and vivid imagery to enhance your tarot reading experience. I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the art of this deck. Have you ever used a tarot deck with similar themes? What do you think about incorporating technology into tarot readings? I appreciate any and all opinions and look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your support!

At this point, this is more a question about a deck project than a deck creation... but would be relevant to deck creation. I'm wanting to print out the line drawings of the CBD deck, and color and cut them myself... I want to try it with both colored pencils and watercolors. To anyone who has made cards, can you recommend a brand or grade of paper or cardstock that would be good? Thanks

Hello! I found this lovely forum and wanted to introduce my oracle deck called Endless Expression. I never thought I would create my own Oracle deck. But here we are. During the spring of 2022, I felt the urge to paint and realized that resisting would be pointless. My first attempt was to make a Tarot deck, but my paintings didn't seem suitable. The goal I set for myself this year was to finish all the paintings and write the instruction booklet. I succeeded in my goal. So now my next goal is to find a suitable printing house and funding for my project. This deck combines two things I love, my spiritual path and abstract art. 💖 During the creativ…

I've completed all the major arcana and the four aces of my first attempt at creating a tarot deck using Midjourney AI + Gimp + Inkscape, as I described in the "Journal" section of the forums. The cards are available for free at their highest resolution (900x1500) and ready to be printed using one of the many existing print-on-demand services (eg MPC, Gamecrafter or Printerstudio). See my signature for the link. I initially planned to use these cards together with a book I recently bought on how to structure and analyze stories (novel, screenplays, etc) using tarots, I'm not sure if I'll use it as it is, make the other cards (at least the court ones?…

This is the first card I've done for a tarot deck I've started designing. The theme is alternative science: inventions made by people of a minority demographic, or those that have been sidelined by history. This is the Death card, and it is about the mycelium burial suit. For a close up image https://www.flickr.com/.../52545411977/in/dateposted-public/

Hello folks! I'm planning to create a deck or few in future, and am going over the titles that have been used for the various cards. I made this rough diagram the other day, more or less to express my frustration in trying to choose the title for Number Zero, mushing together a bunch of titles and descriptions and related concepts and where they overlap. It seems that there is no word which actually expresses the foundational concept of the character. What to put in place of the question mark? Or perhaps it would be appropriate enough to use "?" as its title, or to have him unnamed as he is unnumbered.

Which is your all time favorite Tarot card and why?

For raising funds for Self-publishing decks, which is more effective, Kickstarter or Indiegogo? For those who have used both or either, what was your experience with it? What are some pros and cons?