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parkchanwoohoo

#lol

ruinedchildhood

barghestblack

Gar!

thegeekstressart

I’ve been slowly working on illustrating my own Tarot deck about black cats.

I have a long way to go, but I’m nearly done with the major arcana.

Here are some of my favorites:

I set myself a design challenge (as I often do). I wanted to limit the color palette and the brush styles to create a very consistent look.

And since each card focuses on black cats, it forces me to think deeply about symbolism and design to make sure the meaning of each card is clear and each design is unique.

But there’s still a lot of variety coming through. It’s not all class, or all silliness - just like cats

I have a forearm tattoo of the cats in this one ☝️

I’m so happy with how both of these two managed to feel dark, but adorable at the same time.

And then there’s this one absolute diva:

Most of these used my own feline friends for reference.

There are more but I don’t know yet how many I want to share online. If I can actually complete the entire deck I would love to have it made. But I have a ways to go, so for now I continue to chip away, one card at a time.

thegeekstressart

Hey guys… I finished it. All 78 cards.

Much more to come soon!

kactusnz

@teaboot black cats with yellow, for you and son boy <3

optimysticals

Absolutely stunning

thenearsightedmicroraptor

Yet another redraw for the @poketcg-art event! I'm so happy I could manage to snatch up a card for Hoenn during the first checkpoint, Hoenn was my first pokémon game and Cacnea one of the very first figurines I owned <3 I've been enjoying painting digitally and using limited palettes, and making this was a real party.

Original card by Tika Matsuno, Poketcg-art's scan of the card is below!

Also a gif of my progress below the cut, so you can watch my scary flats turn into an adorable cutiepie in just a few layers:

kamin4ikk

quartzprinz

White-browed Tit-warbler, seen in NW China's Gansu province. by 鸟影语丝

enki2

hylianengineer

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

copperbadge

If the system ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess! Accounting may not be the oldest profession, but someone had to keep the books for them.

I mean, in theory I know that Excel is based on the structure of earlier accounting technology that's been around for hundreds of years -- what do we think we did to track commerce before computers? -- but it still kind of blows my mind to, for example, look at my ancestor's journal from a whaling voyage in 1770 and see spreadsheets in the back.

charaznablespeteevee

self-loving-vampire

According to the book I'm reading, proto-Cuneiform writing seems to have actually started as spreadsheets to keep track of resources rather than as a way to record language or express ideas.

The administrators of that extremely early city had to keep track of lots of things, and doing this by memory alone was a nightmare. These spreadsheets were devised as a solution to that as an evolution of an earlier system that used clay tokens and balls.

Spreadsheets are older than written language as we currently understand it.

herpsandbirds

I went to Kauai for the first time and encountered many introduced species of critters. The rental we stayed at had an excellent bird book by Jim Denny that helped us recognize the birds, where they came from, and when/how they were introduced.

Red crested cardinal, originally from South America, Zebra Dove originally from Australia, Meadowlark from N America, and Shama from Malaysia. We went on hikes that were reported to have the native honeycreepers, but the Merlin sound ID only picked up Japanese white eye and Japanese bush warbler, which have both been introduced to the islands. Apparently the introduced mosquitoes and the disease they carry have been killing off the honeycreepers. Despite i’iwi decorating many tourist items, I doubt many tourists have seen them. I found an organization that is trying to help the honeycreepers: https://kauaiforestbirds.org/

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