BA (Hons) Illustration - Level 06 OUIL603 Extended Practice MONSTER GIRLS TAROT CARDS Brief Produce a set of tarot card designs to expand on the ‘Monster Girls’ characters I created at the beginning of the year. This brief will focus on illustrations for the Major Arcana cards in a Tarot deck. The finished prints will be A3 versions of a proposed, bespoke collectors edition of a Monster Girls themed Tarot deck. To create the prints I will be drawing the compositions out by hand, editing with Photoshop and producing them with the screen print process. I have chosen to screen print because I want to explore various ways of embellishing the prints, such as heat embossing, fluorescent inks, black light reactive inks and coloured foil. What is Tarot? Traditionally in a pack of 78 cards with five suits, Tarot cards are used for fortune telling (especially in Europe) and in certain games. There are 22 Major Arcana cards and 55 Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana focuses on events that will naturally occur due to the law of the Universe whilst the Minor Arcana reveal events that will occur due to the laws of human nature. Therefore Minor Arcana highlight the more practical aspects of life. The suits are made up of the Swords, Cups, Coins (or pentacles), Batons (or wands) and a permanent suit of trumps, which collectively make up the Minor Arcana. The Suit of Cups relates to the element of Water and is associated with emotions, relationships and creativity. The Suit of Coins (or Pentacles) relates to the element of Earth and is associated with money, financial resources, material possessions, career and the physical realm. The Suit of Swords relates to the element of Air and is representative of power, rationality, intellect and thoughts. The Suit of Batons (or Wands) relates to the element of Fire and is associated with spirituality, ideas, inspiration and energy flow. The Major Arcana cards are not associated with the suits - they include the picture cards that are associated with principles, concepts and ideals. These are numbered 1 through 21 with 'The Fool' marked as 0. For example, the High Priestess can represent intuition, higher powers, mystery and subconscious mind OR hidden agendas and a need to listen to your inner voice, depending on the orientation of the card.
Product 5 x Major Arcana designs including; - The High Priestess - The Empress - Death - Strength - The Devil
Tone of Voice -
Fantasy Spiritual/Mystical Edgy Gothic
Audience -
Card Collectors 18 to 20 y/o women
Context -
Limited/Special edition set of cards Collectors item
Additional information/Considerations:
Mandatory Requirements Propose and create some tarot cards to refine process and expand on my Monster Girls range
Deliverables -
Presentation Boards 5 x A3 printed major arcana designs Proposal for other major arcana and minor arcana cards