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

Terot card - Moon (1)

The project I'm doing at the moment is to create a moon tarot card, which indicates darkness, evil power, hell and all the horrific scenes human beings can imagine.

Starry sky creation

An interesting episode happened during the card creation is to make the starry night sky. Since fed up of "stealing" things from web, I told myself I'm going to create my own.

The best part I have learnt so far from the class is to search for certain photoshop object creation tutorial.

It's funny that by now I finally realised the learning process is such a long and difficult procedure.

From "knowing nothing" to "realising developing from web" until now finally "understand to search for certain object creation tutorial".

Layer mask

I was using photoshop before, but using it without proper understanding, and I have no idea what results I'm intending to get and how the process goes and ends whatsover.

I have never bothered what is layer mask, adjustment layer, or those convenient shortcuts.

After searching from tutorial, I realised starry night sky can be created though adding noise and using layer mask to adjust its level in order to get the right tone.

And indeed the layer mask is the small thumbnail just right beside the layer thumbnail, and it indicates the area which you want to do change.

The last important thing is to remember that no matter which part you want to change and always firstly select the part otherwise layer mask would never work.