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Story Sparks Cards sketches, part 1

(Originally posted at Silver Does Stuff)

For decades, I’ve been poking at a deck of writing prompts that I’ve named the Story Sparks Deck (literally decades – I was doing drawings for it for one of my final art classes). But I could never figure out an illustration style that would work with the more abstract prompts. If you follow me on Dreamwidth, you may have seen the events I’ve hosted on AllBingo with the prompts. I’ve revised the list some, which I’m probably going to end up doing more, but I’ve settled on about 76 cards.

I’ve finally figured out a symbolic style that’s working for me. After I had sketched a few, I revised the palette a little, so I have some that have two versions. I’m going to share sketches here in multiple parts. I welcome comments on whether or not the ideas work – I’ve gone very abstract and I worry that some of them are too abstract.

Some of the cards are reversible, sometimes with different meanings depending on orientation. Those ones I’ll show both ways.