Hopefully this dots all the Is and crosses all the Ts as far as this particular card is concerned. This is one of the very first images/cards that I chose for the deck, although when I did the sample images it was nothing more than the original line art against a cream background. It shows Mister Punch playing a game of Cups and Balls with Earth as his ball and a spiky wand to spear it on as his cup. Aside from the coloring, the additions that I made were strictly to bring it closer in line to Waite-Smith symbolism. The Magician is one of about two to four cards that really have to be RIGHT in order to nail down any given deck, IMHO. I think that I put off finishing it for so long because I knew exactly where I was going with it, and wanted to see how the rest of the deck was going to shape up first.
But now -- as of yesterday, I have the base art selected for all but about four or five of the cards. That means I am definitely Over The Hump -- it's all down hill from here. Getting the base images right is really half the job.
-- Frede.
