As I brainstormed for the idea, I wanted to redesign the major arcana cards of the tarot deck. Although I would’ve loved to do all 78, realistically speaking, I could not see myself redoing all 78 cards in a week. I wanted to transform the western designs of the tarots cards to traditional East Asian art forms, especially incorporating the significant concepts of conventional Korean ideas from folk stories or myths.
I was pretty set on this idea, and since I wanted to put it on a digital platform, I was pretty set on redrawing them on a technological device, like my laptop or a phone. However, as it’s been the past month, drawing with my finger on a touch screen is difficult to get precise, so I ordered an iPad and apple pen three days ago (not just for this class; I thought an iPad would come in handy for my future digital artworks as well).
I did not realize the amount of time it’d take to deliver until I ordered the iPad. The Apple pen got delivered two days after the order, but the iPad is not coming until October 21st.
Saddened by this truth, I started to brainstorm for other ideas. It’s not that I did not have pictures to execute; I just really wanted to reinterpret the designs because it’s something I have not seen in the market.
What I decided to do instead was to digitalize a personal oracle deck by making the keyboard the input.
How it works:
- the querent presses any alphabetical key to start
- the querent types any words that resonate with them OR types any set of letters
- the computer feedbacks a comment and a randomized color per key pressed
- the querent can take the words and colors as they please throughout the day
- backspace is not allowed
One of the problems that I encountered while coding was the opening visual. I am not sure why the opening page text shifts to the left when a key is pressed; below is the link to my p5.js sketch for the code:
https://editor.p5js.org/jiwonyu/sketches/beMuPNrZV
On another note, this is the website that I used to pixelized the hand image:
http://pixelartmaker.com/
In the future, I want to continue working on this and incorporate unique letters and numbers so that the entire keyboard can function as a deck, not just the notes. Furthermore, tarot reading is something I do want to continue practicing in the future. When the iPad comes, I will certainly redesign the images of tarot cards as a personal project.