You can only see half of it on the bottom shelf on the right hand side. A lot of it got cropped out, though. It's barely in there. A lot of that stuff isn't really visible on the card anyway. The art is just too small and dark.Zilfer wrote:and now I have to search for that death star!!!!!!
The Hero doesn't contain any writing other than my signature. You're probably referring to the writing on the Paladin's tunic on the Two of Swords. It's Latin. I have no idea what it says. I copied it from the costume reference I used for that piece, which featured a knight in formal tournament attire. There is a bit of trivia about that piece, though: I originally lobbied White Wolf to produce the deck in color. I wanted to get a digital colorist I knew online at the time to do the coloring and had him work this one up as an example. White Wolf didn't got for it, obviously.Zilfer wrote:I've also noticed the lining in like the Hero has writing possibly in a different language that I don't know. Was wondering what it said if anything XD
Glad to know that wasn't too subtle. Actually, I can't remember if the snake was my idea or if it was in the art notes... I suspect it was in the notes.Zilfer wrote:Cool bits of trivia some of it I guessed like the Innocent representing Eve and the Serphent. xD
You can't really see them on the card. It's just too small.Zilfer wrote:Edit: Yes the gravestone names I was curious about trying to read them all... gets harder towards the back....
I try to do that whenever I can. It makes for a more comprehensive piece and means that the signature doesn't become a competing compositional element. I just completed a piece for the upcoming Pathfinder Freeport book from Green Ronin that has my signature on a sign in the background.Zilfer wrote:Also I liked that you did your "boxed in" on one of the tomb stones in the picture I literally laughed aloud when I saw that.
More trivia:
-The Two of Glyphs was the second or third card drawn. I had not been informed that the suit symbols were changing and drew the glyphs on the books to match those in the original Tarokka deck (which was a flowery sort of design). The actual glyphs had to be added digitally. Due to the nature of the glyphs symbol, most of them were added digitally in later cards as well.
-Correction: The Prison was not copied from from the original Fabian deck, however, the building featured on the original deck card, The Rogue, can be seen outside Jacqueline Renier's window on the Ten of Coins. Upon reflection, I see that more cards were done to match Fabian's art than I remembered, including the Five of Stars and the Three of Stars, while cards that I credited Fabian for, like The Temptress were different enough that I probably didn't need to do that. The character featured in the Four of Coins is the same character from Fabian's deck, although the composition is original.
it's very interesting hearing about these little trivia pieces, it almost makes it more interesting to know the story behind the cards as well. 
