Over the next few days I am drawing up a plan for a relatively big art project, an art project I am hoping to put out into the market to sell; the project is creating my own deck of tarot cards!
It is something I have always wanted to do, but until recently I have had little confidence in both my ability to read the tarot without referencing to books and even less confidence in my artwork.
I am now a little bit better off where I can afford to replace art supplies again as I use them, so there are no more excuses in me not doing art anymore.
There is only one true thing against me and my art now that is doing the art in a stress free environment away from the icy cold. My art table is used for other means most of the time and so it is a fight to get the space used for what it should be and I can’t move it to a warmer location because it is currently being used as a dining table in order to make room in the house.
The art table was also my jigsaw puzzle table, needless to say I haven’t touched a jigsaw in nearly three years and you’ve guessed why by now haven’t you?
So, being as my art table is being used, I have to try and consider doing art elsewhere… the only other option is to use my adjustable laptop table in the bedroom, but then that risks getting ink and paint on the bedclothes and the table rocks a lot whenever I tap on it, which could ruin the art consistently.
My other option would be to sit on the floor and place a dragon box between my legs whilst my Pooh board balances on the top of it and I cover the board with cling film so I don’t ruin the art of my Pooh board.
What is my Pooh board, you may ask?
It’s a board with Pooh on it – Winnie-The-Pooh, I once had this board downstairs and Henry was around 3yrs old and drew a scribble on the board, or so Paul thought it was a scribble – I looked at it and I said – OMG IT’S AMAZING LOOK WHAT HE’S DRAWN PAUL! Paul nodded and smirked and I said, can you see what he has drawn? No, he said. I said, look, there is a snout here see? And an eye… to me this is the very head of Winnie-The-Pooh! Oh yeah said Paul vaguely… I am still not sure he saw it. But after a few months went by I decided I was going to thicken the outline with a sharpie, exact to the lines Henry made and then Paul saw it!
This board was shunted around the house without any real value or meaning, never to this day did I know why we kept it, but it became useful when I became sick around a year later – because it became my sandwich board!
Meaning, as I was too sick sometimes to leave the bedroom to eat, I would rest my plate usually sandwiches or a bowl of soup on the board whilst I sat in bed and I ate alone. Over a time this board developed more and more pictures as in the boredom of being mostly bedbound I started to draw all kinds of various images/crap on it.
Some aspects of it positively scream street art or graffiti, other aspects old style cartoons and yes, some occult images too and affirmations.
Paul told me, one day, when I sell my book and people hear or even see this board, they’d want to buy it! I should frame the board in a manner it can be framed double sided, so you can choose which side you want it on the wall. I said nobody will be interested in my sandwich board!
He said nobody will see it as your sandwich board; they’ll see it as art – put it up online for sale and see what I mean!
I AM NOT SELLING MY SANDWICH BOARD!
He told me if I died he would!
So yeah, that’s what I am doing over the next few days, planning the art I want to do for each tarot card, then it will take me one day per picture to create on average, maybe three depends on what medium I intend to use – I think I intend to use ink personally. So there are usually 78 cards to a tarot deck, this means that the project should be finished around 90 to 100 days after I start the plans.
So I am going to presume that it will take me two days a picture which gives me an estimated time frame of the finished product being around the 1st August to the end of August 2023.
This is achievable if my work is done at my usual pace of 3 to 7 hours per picture every two days. Really the 1st August is 201 days away from now – and I only really need 156 days to do it, but I know I procrastinate and have sick days so I’ve made allowances for that and a couple of down and out failures and restarts as well as artistic lethargy!
Thing is, I want to do more than one deck in the future, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, shall we?
Let’s do one deck first and let’s see!
The art for the tarot will be used to sell prints, pins and stickers as well as a bunch of other items and I plan to sell them via square space. I also plan to start a paid subscription service here on my blog where my users will get a huge discount voucher and a bunch of other stuff.
Yes a paid subscription for extra material is coming up sometime in the future, not sure when I am trying to figure all the technical stuff out first and I am procrastinating because technology outside of games is just boring to me!
So yes, that’s what I am up to now.
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