Wednesday, May 13, 2015

More Minor Arcana Cards for the Curio & Co. Tarot Deck - Unveiling at SDCC 2015

Here's a batch of recent cards I've inked, I'm really close to finishing the inking pass and moving on to the color phase.

Before that I'll need to do an in-between pass for balancing of all the illustrations.  That will take care of making sure that all of the hand drawn text is the same font, that there are no misspelling, and that illustrations are really what we want to bring to the color phase.

During this in-between pass I'll also be dealing with creating the back of the cards, and yesterday I made the decision for the background pattern I will be using.  It took a bit longer then I anticipated to lock that down, but it's no surprise.  Design is something that works or doesn't and you keep at it until you have the feeling that the image works for the project.  Many are the times when I've done appealing designs that unfortunately didn't match the project, and out the window the design goes.

Enough blabber here are some of the cards I've inked recently.

Before that I should say… as a promotional effort…

Curio & Co. Tarot Deck
Unveiling at San Diego Comic-Con 
July 8, 2015 at booth 1217

King of Swords card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Queen of Swords card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Knight of Swords card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Knave of Swords card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

King of Wands card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Queen of Wands card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Knave of Wands card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

King of Chalices card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Queen of Chalices card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Knight of Chalices card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Knave of Chalices card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Nine of Chalices card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Five of Chalices card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Two of Chalices card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Ten of Coins card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Four of Coins card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Nine of Coins card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Three of Coins card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Seven of Coins card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Ace of Wands card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Five of Swords card - inked illustration - In the spirit of the Marseille tarot - minor arcana - design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)