The Empress from my Hello Kitty Tarot!
I am flattered that my deck was reviewed on by Melissa Hill!
http://sassysibyl.com/2012/08/13/hello-kitty-tarot-redux-or-if-you-dream-it-it-will-come/
Because I don’t know how to leave well enough alone I actually redid the high priestess from my hello kitty tarot/thoth deck yesterday.
The image 98% mine but credit to Joe Rosales’ Hello Kitty Tarot for the pillars.
Hey Tumblr!
So a few months back I finished the personal project to rule all personal projects.
I found a copy of the adorable and clever Hello Kitty Tarot deck by Joe Rosales that is now out of print. I thought it would be fun to color it. I was going to use watercolor, but the paperweight and ink wouldn’t allow that… So I scanned it and painted it digitally and 78 paintings and probably 300 hours later this is what I have!
I used the Thoth deck by Lady Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley for color inspiration. I ended up editing the drawings for alot of the cards and totally redrawing a few of them To fit my interpretations of the cards. About 80% of the line work is original
It was a lot of work but I think it was worth it so that I could have my own version of such an adorable deck.
The concepts and drawings are (c)Joe Rosales and of course all the characters are (c)Sanrio
