I first started out my tarot project making my own interpretation of the rider waite deck, however The cut paper I was using became too time consuming and I was running out of material after the 7th card.

Animamundi is what started my interest in alchemy and the occult. I never got around to fully describing or analyzing occult used within the story, so this is my attempt to make sense of that. As well as make the connection between the historical figure and the fictional one, since some of them aren't that obvious to those unfamiliar with this area of study.

This oracle deck is based off of the Visual Novel Game, Animamundi: The Dark Alchemist, however, most of the symbolism is based around alchemy, sephiroth, chakra, and the seven deadly sins. I explain the meaning of the cards at the bottom of the post for those unfamiliar with this rather obscure game title. However, all the characters listed have a historical character corresponding to them, so if you're familiar with the major players of metaphysics/occult/new age you'll still be able to pull meaning.

40 Cards:
7 Alchemy Cards
16 Character Cards
7 Deadly Sins Cards
10 Sephiroth Cards



The Cards


Seven Alchemical Stages
Relates the seven step process of transmuting base metals to gold, to the transformation of Georik as an individual as well as his progress in actual alchemical endeavors, and how this change effects those around him. Each step relates to the traditional elemental and trinity correspondence.

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Hopefully i'll finish this today or tomorrow


I'm redoing the character sprites so they actually look good. Don't know when I'll finish these.

I've been watching: Bakemonotogari, Canaan, 07-Ghost, Hetalia, some dumb reverse harem show, Mars the TV Drama, Supernatural, too many movies..

I've been reading: Vassalord v.3, Togainu no Chi, Il Gatto Sul G v.3, The Painted Witch, Crank, Bitch Magazine, Remember: Be Here Now, I Blame the Patriarchy Blog...

So, I've bee not posting much visually, so i thought I'd post an update on what I've been working on. Yes, yet another flash project. But this one s just a dress up doll so it ideally shouldn't take as long as an actual game takes.

I Have Been Watching: Neo Angelic ~Abyss~, 07 Ghost, (both of which are extremely dull I and I only rec watching them for their character designs) Ergo Proxy, Baccano!, and a ton of movies.

JUNE 8TH

It felt like the end of everything (how naive of us)
when the bleached police lights backlit your boy-boned frame.

There were only three of them,
but words strung like singing diamonds
across your lips.

And I wasn't sure if such beauty was born of this stress,
your cloudy green-eyed intensity (only a flicker in the dark), or
backseat ecstasy.

I took them from you, with nothing in return but
the hope that I would return them.

I spent the last week working on an end of the year project that basically acted as a portfolio in addition to a time-based work of art. Said project led to a disagreement with a teacher (who is a dada/historical/postmodern photographer) as to why artists should cater to the general public. We should create solely for other artists, since artists are the ones who determine what art truly is. The media simply reports what happens in the world.

Art is art just because he and the art world say so? Therefore, artwork has just become an extension of their ego - a tangible artifact of social/intellectual worth. Let's just completely forget the ultimate goal of art in the first place: the creation of an effect on the onlooker

This left me, a symbolist/art nouveau/decadence/surrealist artist, to feel the need to jusitfy my work. So I started trying to write what art wasn't, but I felt like I was limiting it too much. So here's is some thoughts on what I know it to be:

--Inspiration
--A cataylst for wisdom
--A window to somewhere else
--A creation made from patience and quality
--A creation independent of the creator and reality
--Something universally understood to be valuable
--An order from chaos
--An emulatation/description of aspects of what it means to be human that is understandable to humans.
--Something that fufills the emotional and spiritual needs of humans, regardless of time period, profession, or education level.



And a few quotes I strongly agree with:

"Man's individuality or singularity is not a barrier to the universality of the will, but is subordinated to it...Everyone recognises himself or his own will in this act... Even those who could not create such a work find their own essence expressed .... Such a work is therefore truly universal. The more its individual creator dissolves in it, the more approval it earns."
(Georg Wilhelm F. Hegel, Sämtliche Werke, Dritter Band, "Philosophische Propädeutik, Gymnasialreden und Gutachten über den Philosophie-Unterricht" 1927


"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ... The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ... We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. ..." (Jackson Pollock)

The next weeks will be insanely busy for me, for personal reasons that if you know me are already aware of. I won't be posting any large projects until after May 15th.

I've been thinking a lot about Pyrexia lately, it's not abandoned. I've been thinking about Red Wall, but unable to finish illustrating since my own work has abducted most of my studio time. Fear not, I sincerely love creating flash games and look forward to experimenting more with them.

My Legend of Zelda Vaati sculpt is base painted and currently I am doing detailing/shading.

I have a Hetalia USxUK, Death Note, and Raito Yagami mixes on the way. Not sure when I'll be posting those.

I am also more excited for Kamen Rider Dragon Knight action figures than I should be~ XD

I have been watching: Axis Powers Hetalia, Jyu-Oh-Sei, 07 Ghost, Elfen Lied, Princess Resurrection

I have been reading: Drawing Blood By: Poppy Z. Brite, Mindbridge By: Joe Haldeman, Illustrated Man By: Ray Bradbury, Measure for Measure By: Shakespeare

Death is equal.

The words just came out.
Tales of Symphonia 2: Knight of Ratatosk Richter/Emil Drabble

Just a short little thing from one my notebooks I write in when I travel with nothing else to do. Richter and Emil have a very complicated relationship, as I have expressed on my fanart of the two.

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