Illustration for Tarot: Crafting Your Signature Style
Digital analysis and moodboard
A course by Elisa Seitzinger , Visual Artist
About the video: Digital analysis and moodboard
Overview
“Now we'll look at the last step before we start drawing. We will do an iconographic research, that is, a collection of images on a single example arcana and also on all the elements that form it, analyzing the symbols that compose it.”
In this video lesson Elisa Seitzinger addresses the topic: Digital analysis and moodboard, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Tarot: Crafting Your Signature Style. Learn to blend classical art aesthetics with modern digital techniques, meanwhile developing your distinctive style crafting Tarot card illustrations..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we talk about how to identify the key elements of an arcana and how perform iconographic research on it. To do this we will start from this deck that I am intimately very fond of because it was the first deck I found in my grandfather's factory among a thousand scraps accumulated over the years and is the deck of the widow Fantini of Borgomanero, a late 19th century deck that it was still printed in the woodcut technique and colored by hand paper by paper through the use of stencils. It is a Marseillaise-type deck but with small variations. Before even starting to draw, the i...”
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Course summary for: Illustration for Tarot: Crafting Your Signature Style
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration
Elisa Seitzinger
A course by Elisa Seitzinger
Elisa Seitzinger is a talented visual artist and illustrator known for her unique style inspired by medieval art, Russian icons, and Byzantine mosaics. With a passion for human figures, hieratic faces, and fantastic or monstrous animals, Elisa's work has been featured in various mediums, including newspapers, magazines, clothing, textiles, posters, music albums, books, and tarot cards.
Her fascination with tarot cards and their powerful symbolic and communicative charge led her to explore the depths of traditional symbolism and develop her own visual language. Through continuous research and observation, Elisa has crafted a style that remains true to her cultural background while evolving over time.
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