Okay, so I lied, I finished this one up first. Mostly because I can't get the lighting right on the other card that I'm working on right now.

This is the Death card in a series of tarot card illustrations I'm working on, featuring the characters from my comic project. This card features Clia, one of the main characters (and one of my personal favorites). Obviously this isn't the whole card, just the illustration for it.. I'll be adding borders and text to them when I have them all completed.

When I posted the sketch of this one, a few people mentioned that it's a bit too sinister looking for the Death card, which may be the case. But on top of these being a series of tarot cards, they're also portraits of the characters from my comic, and this particular character's personality needed to come through here. (There's a multitude of reasons that I chose this particular character for this particular card, although I won't go into them here, since it'd be about six paragraphs long, and I'm sure most of you have already skimmed past this. ).

Although it may look sinister at first glance, think about it for a little while, and you'll probably notice that it's not as scary as you think.

This was done completely in Photoshop 7, working off of a scanned-in sketch (which is floating around in my gallery), and, in sharp contrast to the Hanged Man card, this one only took me about ten hours. I left in the brush strokes this time around, because I really liked how they looked and couldn't bring myself to smooth them out.

Other Tarot Cards So Far

The Hanged Man