The Wandering Tarot - VIII Strength

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The Brief:
"The Wandering Tarot" is an graphic illustration series I started to recreate the major arcana found in a traditional tarot deck with my own style. The inspiration was to further develop and incorporate my own branding style with a crow, while utilizing traditional elements found in each standard card. The purpose of the project is to combine a cute interpretation on a concept that typically has a dark and mysterious reputation attached.

This entry is [VIII - Strength]

The card often depicts a woman with an infinity symbol and a lion. It typically represents enlightenment and spiritual powers, whereas the lion represents animal passions and earthly cravings

The Solution:

In researching for this design, I wanted to combine the three major elements with the crow - maintain the lion symbolism with the mane and include the infinity symbolism. The idea was to keep the crow in a cute, almost animated style to contrast the concept of "strength", typically associated with bigger, more aggressive animals.

Each of the designs start off as a rough sketch to get a general idea of where the elements should be placed. I created this concept up with a yellow based color palette in mind for the shading found in the lion's mane.