This drawing was my first serious approach on the Tarot, "Death" card number XIII, talks about death of a cicle, death of an idea, so its more about change than a literal death of a person, its about leaving behind what does not work for you anymore... ending a relationship or quitting your job to start a new independent enterprise.
So here I started based on the Marseille deck, with the beheaded queen and king, in that matter the card talks about how death makes no distinctions on social, economical or political power, nether status or gender, death comes for us all equally. so what I added to this card was the blooming skeleton, which talks about change, of new growth coming with death, tells us that this can be painful or difficult to accept, but at the same time we have to be open to see that detail, there is a gain behind all this radical change... something new, perhaps for better.
I've never been into tarot cards as it seemed so scary to me. But now when you explain this death card is not all that scary at all. The explanation that it's a change sounds very interesting to me.
I love your illustration! Is it done with a pencil? It's so detailed and well thought. I like the skeleton in his armor and all the death bodies and bones around. This is how we all will end up - there is no difference..
Thank you for sharing and have a great weekend!
Impressive work. Welcome to Steemit!
What size and materials did you use?
Gosh, @kerbcrawlerghost :) Your arts are just completely my kind of thing :) Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful <3 I love all the details in this piece, and the design and thoughtfulness of its composition, and the inking, and the elements you chose to work with.... everything are so lovely to me, so very lovely <3 Amazing card, Kerbie :) :) :)
If you have a brand new work with a step by step pictures, you should try to drop that into Steemit soon. I think that will probably attract a lot more attention to your blog here. Steemit audience love art posts with process pictures included in them :)
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Welcome to steem. Love the detail in your work, it's quite frightening!
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This one is really nice. Love all the details and the work that you put for this art. Death looks totally awesome with the scythe :).
A really great representation of death! Pretty incredible artwork!
A great piece in a time-honored tradition - immediately, the Dürer drawing Knight, Death and Devil came to mind. I once reproduced it (on request by a client) on his rec room wall.
This is absolutely amazing..I looked at it for a long time and still can't take my eyes off of it..so hooked.
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I don't know if this can to mind for you (it's likely it did in some obscured way if not acutely) that this is, in a way, a realised vision of Armageddon. The end of the conscious and delusional histories that try to circumnavigate the certainty of time's violent again the flesh?
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