i didn't want to bother you but i've been searching your archive for a few posts you had of tips and things for making your own or getting a tarot deck first time and i can't find it (must be farther ago than i thought)
That post is likely from four years ago, so I wouldn’t be able to find it either.
But if I were to write a tips on making your own tarot deck right now, it would look like this:
Decide if what you want to do is a tarot deck or an oracle deck. There is not lesser or greater of the two, but be prepared for people who have opinions about both.
Set a schedule for yourself based on how you know you work. I did a card a day each day for six-ish months because I know I will get it done if I hyper-focus on it. If you work in spurts, plan your spurts. (Like do a suit each week and then take a week off… that kind of thing.)
Post your WIP’s online. Posting the art while I worked on it got people really excited about it and helped me chug along because I knew that other people were looking forward to it.
See if you can find a local printer to do a limited run. They can usually offer some better kinds of stock and finishes that online printers might not. If you ran into the same problem that I did and can’t find a local one, The Game Crafter is a decent online printer that’s come a long way since I started using them.
Don’t be discouraged if you get side-tracked. The Sweeney Tarot wasn’t the first deck I attempted. I made several attempts prior to that that completely flopped. Sometimes you just have to let the flop and then try again later.
Decide for yourself what’s ‘good enough.’ I tried about three different compositions on the Lovers card before finding one that worked well enough.
Please please please… make this for yourself. Make it because you see something that doesn’t exist and you think it should. One of my major hang-ups was when I was making something I’d worry if someone else would like it. At the end of the day, I should have been making this for myself. It doesn’t matter if I sell one or one-thousand. Deciding that I was going to make it for myself was the healthiest decision I could have ever made.
No really. SAVE. Save early, save often, save backups, save to a cloud. Whatever. Just save.
Drink water. Stretch. Wear comfy shoes.
I can’t remember what all else there might have been, but… that’s what I would tell someone now.
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