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Posted: Fri Feb 18th, 2011 06:46 pm |
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gerardzul
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Hi! Here's my first attempt at card design. La Xaula is not exactly a tarot. It contains 24 picures duplicated both in color and black and white, conforming a 48 card deck. The cards are unavailable, since I am waiting to save some money to print a limited edition, but you can see almost all of them in this animation:
Here's the link to them on my website:
http://gerardgil.com/la-xaula
By the way, I am very interested in getting scans (as I guess a deck is almost impossible) of the whole Terayama/Usuki deck. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks and best regards!
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Posted: Fri Feb 18th, 2011 06:55 pm |
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goldenweb
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Hi gerardzul - welcome! I like your cards - they're very free and original. Amazing the way the colour alters one's perception of what one is seeing. And watching them change like that is practically hypnotic...
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Posted: Fri Feb 18th, 2011 11:42 pm |
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hoo
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These are great ! Are these drawings one single continuous line?
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Posted: Sat Feb 19th, 2011 01:21 am |
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gerardzul
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Thanks, goldenweb and hoo! Actually, each card has more than one line. However, they were made starting with a single line drawing and then adding a few more lines to complete the card. Sometimes an element of the image is made out of a single line and sometimes single lines make up different elements...
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Posted: Sat Feb 19th, 2011 08:34 pm |
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hoo
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I really like this style with the colors. You seem to have made it your own. I hope you stick with it, and we'll all see where you go...
Also your animated gif presentation is unique. 1.5mg file size is a bit on the high end ( I calculate a 6 minute load time for a dial-up connection}, but for those of us on broadband it's a very nice way to do it.
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Posted: Sat Feb 19th, 2011 11:10 pm |
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gerardzul
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Thanks! The animation thing is quite easy to do using Photoshop and Image Ready. As you probably already know, there's a very useful tool in image ready which creates frames out of layers, so all is needed is a file with each image on a different layer to create an animated gif. Here's a smaller one, some kind of tarot:
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Posted: Sat Mar 19th, 2011 01:13 am |
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gerardzul wrote: Thanks! The animation thing is quite easy to do using Photoshop and Image Ready. As you probably already know, there's a very useful tool in image ready which creates frames out of layers, so all is needed is a file with each image on a different layer to create an animated gif. Here's a smaller one, some kind of tarot:
I really like your drawings/paintings; and very kind of you to share the above
welcome to the forum!
rylla
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