The Fool Pathway seems to be about fooling perceptions and reality. They specialize in divination, illusions, changing appearances, and controlling strong muscles and facial expressions. They also turn others into marionettes after taking control of their spirit body threads. At High Sequences, they can turn their marionettes into another duplicate of themselves, bring things (including themselves) from the past to the present, create countless miracles, create a mysterious environment full…

For the magician card, I wanted to lean more into the actual wizard element, rather than a stage magician. This enabled me to use alchemical circles, a cooler outfit, and make his eyes white, to draw attention to his face. I kept the infinity-symbol above his head by integrating it into the alchemical circle behind his face, and used the Rose Window from the notre dam for the bottom circle. Lastly, I added curtains behind him to hint to the fact that he's a performer, and then added those…

The first card in my tarot set design. This is still a work in progress, I intend to color/paint them all when I'm finished, but I'm sketching them all out first to align the compositions, proportions and aesthetic. For the fool, I let myself be inspired by the jester/joker cards, instead of turning him into a hobo. The first draft had him look more like Diogenes the philosopher, but then I realised that made him too similar to the Hermit card. So instead I went for the Venetian Jester…

Lord of The Mysterious

Card Description The Fool is normally the first card in the major arcana group, though it can sometimes be the last card. The Fool is special to the Tarot deck because the major arcana is sometimes referred to as The Fool’s journey. By starting at the beginning, The Fool travels up the Tarot sequence, experiencing every major event in life before ending the journey with The World...

Tarot | 00 - The Fool by CatInBread on DeviantArt

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