Love for peace

Mother Teresa is the original idea of this tarot card, previously I was thinking to draw an old lady as mother.

However during drawing process, I found that why should I draw an old lady? If an young lady owes the same heart laden with kindness, mercy and generosity, should it be an more graceful picture?

Mother teresa

Probably my only connection with mother Teresa was the whole summer I spent in Kolkata, 2005. A difficult city with lots of poors.

Though Kolkata is the capital of West Begal, it's surprisingly underdeveloped compared with Delhi, Mumbai these big cities from my personal opinion.

And heard many stories about mother Teresa and her charity, which lead her fame to grow internationally as an humanitarian. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civil honour.

Picasso dove

The way of drawing dove suggested by Chris, though I know that I haven't captured enough of its appearance, and in fact I drawed it directly in photoshop, indeed the better way I felt perhaps drawing it in Illustrator would be better, and then import into photoshop.

I like the way Pablo Picasso did for the dove, very simple sketches, but very much like the alive ones.

After done the card, I did more drawings in illustrator, feel much more comfortable after practising a bit more.

Moon tarot card (2)

The second tarot card I have created focus on the theme - Moon, theoretically speaking, it's a dark card indicating all the evil things. And my idea is even a bit more crazy - based on the symbol of Nazi.

"Yeah, I know it's a bit crazy"

When first showing my original sketch to Chris, I notices he glanced me strangely, which makes me uncomfortable, "You should go for simple idea, you know." he said. "Yeah, I know it's a bit crazy, but it just comes."

From my eyes Chris is a soft person, probably he doesn't fancy this idea, but anyway I'm stubbon to insist my own idea.

Indeed I'm not sure why I want to base my moon tarot card on the Nazi symbol, probably just because I had saw too much bloody films happening in this period, heard too much sad, devastating and inhuman stories based on this period of history.

When first saw the tarot card brief, the idea just naturally appeared in my mind, nothing can be more darker than Hitler's conspiracy, nothing can be more horrific than the Nazi concentration camp, nothing can be more brutal than the genocide of Jews.

Sophine Scholl

I once saw a film called Sophine Scholl, which depicts how anti-Nazi resistence movement "White Rose" member Sophine, uses her wits in the interrogation in order to protect other members in the movement.

It's a film describing her final day before her death