The Poison Cage Tarot deck is so inspiring. I love how it integrates so much symbolic imagery with color and form to set the tone of the card. I did some research, and there are apparently thousands of tarot decks out there, with all sorts of themes, like: steampunk, vampires, cats, rabbits, etc. One of the cutest I saw was the DNAxCat major arcana deck from Taiwan. It has adorable chibi cats representing the characters. All of this diversity got me to thinking what kind of visual theme I would choose if I were making a tarot deck. My theme would be people wearing animal masks. I honestly think that making a whole deck is too ambitious for me to finish, but my goal is to make one card. So I started sketching out The Fool. Here is his face. I want to keep to the usual imagery of him about to walk off a cliff, because he is unaware of the danger he is in. In my mind, the fool is naive, and ignorant, because he has not experienced the hardships of life. He is optimistic and without fear, because he doesn't know that he should be afraid, not because he is brave. Even though the fool is about to walk into danger, I feel like he would not be harmed. I wonder if there is some way to symbolize this?
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