Personal artwork, as if for a fantasy book cover. Inspired by the local outbreak of periodic cicadas.
Digital art, created in Procreate, copyright 2023 Stephanie Smith
Mischievous imps help themselves to dessert, reminding everyone to have a little fun in this card commissioned for 78 Tarot’s Creatures of the Night oracle deck, funded on Kickstarter as a companion to their Halloween Tarot deck. Original art produced with ink and watercolor.
Client: 78 Tarot
Art Direction: Delphine and Chris Malidore
Copyright 2023 Stephanie Smith
A glamorous Victorian lady gifts both the fancy and the poor child with 6 golden candies in the Six of Coins card, commissioned for the 78 Tarot for their limited-edition Halloween deck. Original artwork drawing with ink pen and painted with watercolor.
Client: 78 Tarot
Art direction by Delphine and Chris Malidore.
Copyright 2023 Stephanie Smith.
The 10 of Coins, or 10 of Pentacles is a tarot card signifying long-term successes, like a well-lived life, and also the joy of sharing that legacy with others. This artwork was created for 78 Tarot Magical.
Digitally painted in Procreate
Client: 78 Tarot
Art direction: Delphine Lévesque Demers and Chris Malidore
These pieces illustrate the covers of a hypothetical book series. It would be a fantasy epic set in a world where the magic system is based around the traditional four elements but hinges on the mysterious fifth element “aether” that connects them all… or destroys them all.
This artwork is also available for sale on a variety of housewares in my Redbubble store.
The “5 of Wands” was created for a Limited Edition animal-themed collaborative Tarot deck – the Kickstarter to print this deck funded in 3 days and earned twice the original goal!
Digitally painted in Procreate
Client: 78 Tarot
Art direction: Delphine Lévesque Demers.
A series of spot illustrations for a proposed book on folktales about cats from around the world.
Trillia is a mermaid character I’m developing for younger readers. She goes on a quest for ancient artifacts in order to save her village and her family. This concept art explores a potential book cover design.
Trillia is a mermaid character I’ve been developing for younger readers. She is questing for ancient artifacts in order to save her village and her family. These three images were part of an art challenge to tell a simple, self contained story about discovering the “silver lining” to one’s troubles in just three scenes.
Over the course of 77 separate panels, Trillia the mermaid goes on a quest to save her village from a dangerous blight.
This story was created during the Journey Through June Instagram challenge, to create an entire new story out of thumbnail images in one month using prompts based on the classic “Hero’s Journey” structure. The sketches were deliberately kept rough to meet the hectic pace of daily posting, and were accompanied by only brief captions.