Fanart: The Fool (SGA)

[my_scheherazade]

Title: The Tower
Artist: my_scheherazade 
Rating: G
Spoilers/Ep. Tags: none
Medium: watercolor painting
Characters: Rodney McKay
Notes: This is card #1 in the Tarot deck: The Fool. I'm doing all of the Major Arcana (a section of the Tarot deck) with art from Stargate: Atlantis. Individual cards may be gen, but the overall series is McShep.

Comments

[monkey_junkey]

I've always thought SGA would make for good Tarot cards, and I'm glad someone got around to doing them :)

[my_scheherazade]

SGA is just esoteric enough to make for good symbols without being too literal. Thank you!

[padfootthegrim]

Watercolour of the human figure turned out well, I think! ^.^
Can't wait for the next one, glad you're having fun with this!

[my_scheherazade]

Thank you so much!

[theeverdream]

Beautiful!

[my_scheherazade]

Thanks!

[chkc]

Oooh! My favourite part for this entire drawing is the concept you used to illustrate the card, how Rodney is in the danger of tumbling off the mountain/cliff if he takes one more step. You illustrated Rodney's preoccupied expression very well.

*worries for Rodney*

[my_scheherazade]

Thank you! Actually the representation of the fool on traditional Tarot cards is someone dancing on the edge of a cliff so the concept is not entirely original. In each of the cards I try to give at least a nod to the original symbology (lightning strike in The Tower Infinity symbol in The Magician etc.)