Chevalier of Wands

Chevalier of Wands

: shatterstripes; June 13th, 2008

Fire of Earth.

This one turned out pretty popart/comicsy. As usual, I didn't mean for it to go that way; it just happened. My favorite part is the pattern-fill stubble.

I think this mostly draws on things I learnt about drawing MANLY MEN from Jim Smith of Spümcø. I never use them as a rule, because I don't really want to draw them - but when I do, I've got a good selection of someone else's obsessively-observed details to pull from.

17 to go for the show.

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Tags: art, tarot

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coraa

2008-06-14 01:57 am (UTC)

Love the rhino.

Also, this is the first time I noticed that the four wands in the four corners are all different.

shatterstripes

2008-06-14 02:18 am (UTC)

Yay, it reads as a rhino without the benefit of me getting off my ass and googling up some rhino reference!

I kinda wish I'd managed to get some magician's wands in the suit like the lower left suggests, but it just didn't happen. Ah well, maybe in the expansion packs.

circuit_four

2008-06-14 02:10 am (UTC)

I'm still overwhelmed by how well you dowsed the Kurosawa aesthetic right out of the ground, without knowingly being familiar with it. o/` He's got T. Mifune eyyyyyyes! o/`

shatterstripes

2008-06-14 02:16 am (UTC)

I just drew a BIG SQUARE SERIOUS MAN!

Also, you should come home from the cafe soon, I want to bite someone and Rik's asleep. *grin*

circuit_four

2008-06-14 02:18 am (UTC)

Yay, and I have another headache! It's the fangs of the Magi! I'll probably finish up some mail and pack up in the next 30 or so then. <3

(Anonymous)

2008-06-14 02:28 am (UTC)

Very Lone Wolf, in a way, and a departure from a lot of the other images, which keeps the whole thing fresh. Also the colors are a lot heavier than I'm used to seeing from you. Maybe it's that whole -male- thing working together. Dunno. All adds up to cool work!

kamenkyote

2008-06-14 02:29 am (UTC)

Grrr... stupid power outage. That was me.

shatterstripes

2008-06-14 02:32 am (UTC)

Really, it all sprung from it needing to feel "earthy" and solid, yet active. So I get the green and brown, and throw in a little red for some contrast...

mutleyjames

2008-06-14 02:46 am (UTC)

This is as macho as it gets!

shatterstripes

2008-06-14 02:53 am (UTC)

I'll be showcasing a few other kinds of macho in some of the other court cards. Just because it needs to be somewhere in this deck!

circuit_four

2008-06-14 02:56 am (UTC)

Well, there's also a nice little bit of "meta" going on here. I mean, the Grim Square-Jawed Reluctant Hero is supposed to be a loner, out of place wherever he goes. Appearing in a deckful of pretty, subtle, frequently underhanded femmes puts him WAY out of his element -- and thus magnifies his power greatly.

o/` He's so far out, he fits right in... o/`

paka

2008-06-14 10:04 am (UTC)

Seconding the "Oh my lord, you did a tribute to Yojimbo" thing, conscious or no. I really do like the context that this might be a manly samurai or a manly wuxu or something but he's definitely not a manly cowboy.

dustmeat

2008-06-14 10:24 am (UTC)

Like all Persians, he rides a rhino.

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shatterstripes

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