about a decade ago i casually started to make a broadway deck and then wandered away and forgot it.  a few weeks of poking around here and i've started to get a yen to return to it and see if i can at least finish off the major arcana, so i spent tonight working on new versions of the template and cards, and i figured i would share what i made so far!

 

obviously this is just for fun and my tarot skills and photoshop skills are not the greatest. 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

I'm hoping to take all the major arcana from the major works of musical theatre canon, but we'll see how well i do! if any of you are musical nerds and want to suggest cards or discuss, please feel free! 🙂🙂🙂

Edited September 20, 20196 yr by bookshop

I really liked your art, particularly the first two cards. I think if you stayed with that medium you would have a great deck.

 

Can you tell me a little bit about why you chose to use two photographs with the animation?

Emilija[/member] I am focusing more on the individual characters than the shows they're from, and it's really hard to find illustrations of Bloody Mary from South Pacific and Joe from Show Boat — much less high-res images of them where they're obviously recognizable. But Juanita Hall and Paul Robeson are iconic portrayals of the characters from the films, so I figure probably they would speak to the average musical theatre nerd, or at least that there's a chance they would know them when they see them.

 

In an ideal world I'd love to do nothing but illustrated art of every major character but i don't think that's going to be possible, there's just not enough out there outside of the show posters and film stills.

Bookshop you're on to something!  I lived in Astoria for almost 5 years and was a bicycle messenger in Manhattan.  That was a very long time ago but my love for NYC has never died.  I will follow your progress with zeal!!  btw, I went to the Winter Garden theater and saw The Beatles.  I am just THAT old!  ^-^

Really creative!