The many meanings of the Queen of Pentacles tarot card.
This is another drawing from the archives. Originally the sketch was made in 2010 when I was on a team of artists called the Doomsday Dream Clan. We participated in a team challenge in the now defunct conceptart.org website and this is one of the cards we selected to paint. The intent was to create a complete tarot deck from the cards drawn by all the different teams of artists who participated in the contest. I do not know if the deck was ever completed, but I know that some stunning work was done during the challenge and some famous pro artists participated in the contest. This version of the Queen of Pentacles depicted here did not make it into our final work or submission, but was instead an original concept done by me when we first started to get some ideas. I recently decided to push this concept to a more complete stage and this is the result. I have been meaning to go back and post our completed works from the Doomsday Dream Clan on a separate subsection of this website.
This project was a lot of fun to work on, and I do think we did some really good work but the complete lack of votes from the community was totally demoralizing and I suffered a few years of burnout after this challenge completed where I didn't draw very much. This is a common thing for many artists and the causes may be different, but for me usually art comes in waves, where I push and improve massively but then have to take a few years to pull back and gather more energy for the next push. I'm now old, and I wish I had spent more time and effort in improving early as an artist. The end is coming soon, maybe like most artists my work will be more valued after I'm dead. Cheers to that!
This is another drawing from the archives. Originally the sketch was made in 2010 when I was on a team of artists called the Doomsday Dream Clan. We participated in a team challenge in the now defunct conceptart.org website and this is one of the cards we selected to paint. The intent was to create a complete tarot deck from the cards drawn by all the different teams of artists who participated in the contest. I do not know if the deck was ever completed, but I know that some stunning work was done during the challenge and some famous pro artists participated in the contest. This version of the Queen of Pentacles depicted here did not make it into our final work or submission, but was instead an original concept done by me when we first started to get some ideas. I recently decided to push this concept to a more complete stage and this is the result. I have been meaning to go back and post our completed works from the Doomsday Dream Clan on a separate subsection of this website.
This project was a lot of fun to work on, and I do think we did some really good work but the complete lack of votes from the community was totally demoralizing and I suffered a few years of burnout after this challenge completed where I didn't draw very much. This is a common thing for many artists and the causes may be different, but for me usually art comes in waves, where I push and improve massively but then have to take a few years to pull back and gather more energy for the next push. I'm now old, and I wish I had spent more time and effort in improving early as an artist. The end is coming soon, maybe like most artists my work will be more valued after I'm dead. Cheers to that!
