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Some fun-times warmup art from this morning.

Here’s a higher-res image of Luther as the Fool.

Adding the book, the watch, and swapping the little dog for the wolf were all fun notions to carry out, as was swapping the mountains for the treeline.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of people who are mostly familiar with the Rider Waite tarot assume that the little white dog is this handsome young troubadour’s loyal pet. In the history of tarot depictions of this card, however, the dog is an angry local mutt actively trying to bite the Fool. The Fool isn’t always a happy young Bohemian, either.

Here’s the Pamela Colman Smith original, art-directed by Rider and Waite:

And here’s the Fool from the Jean Dodal version of the medieval Tarot de Marseille deck:

Here’s the first of the two Family Man tarot prints; Ariana as the High Priestess. 

Here’s the original image, by Pamela Coleman-Smith, for the Rider Waite tarot deck. It’s a deck from 1909, so people in 1768 wouldn’t recognize some of the symbols, but it’s the most recognizable deck to a modern audience.