My painting advice would be to paint the whole thing in monochrome first. Pick any color you want to be your under painting. Most the work is done and you just need to start laying in your colors, and the nice thing about this is how it influences the colors you place over it, even if it seems like it's not. I like using burnt sienna. a lot of people also like blue.
I may try that for the next card I paint! Right now I'm using it in a way that is similar to my thinking process for marker/pencil. You can't see much of the purple anymore, but the dark color up there definitely wouldn't be as rich as it is without the purple layer under it from the first day. =3
lord knows i'm no expert and i've never been to art school, but in my experience, acrylics are about layers. I usually block in my darks first and then build up gradually to my lights, by the time i get to the color i want whatever i'm painting to actually be I've got enough underpainting to fully hide the white canvas underneath. you can get remarkably smooth gradients that way too (if that's what you're going for, anyway). I'm also not a fan of natural hair brushes with acrylic -- boar is too rough, squirrel isn't springy enough, and sable just goes limp as soon as i load the brush. maybe it's just me, idk, but taklon and white nylon both have a really nice spring to them that I've found I prefer. ymmv, of course. :3
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I'm working around 3.25 x 5.5"... which seems to me like a good 'actual size' for tarot cards. And currently I've done everything here with a #4 Sapphire S85 round. But yeah, I can see replacing them pretty often. =I
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Tell me your commission rates? If you still do commissions? Just so I can keep it on file. :)
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I'm working around 3.25 x 5.5"... which seems to me like a good 'actual size' for tarot cards. And currently I've done everything here with a #4 Sapphire S85 round. But yeah, I can see replacing them pretty often. =I
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