I may very well try a combination of the two, taking the best elements from each.
I thought that if you took the blue eyes and the peach fag-end from the original, instead of the pink and put these elements into the second one with the darker background, then this would look good. Perhaps the eyes could be green, they would still look natural, but give a more 'creature of the night', vampirish quality. Just my thoughts.
The Knight of Cups is always the one I look out for in a deck. I don't even know why, but I do.
The Knight of Cups is an important one for me too. I consider myself to be the Knight of Cups.
....as this one emerged from the darkness in his grim little bathroom, I could really 'feel' him. There is real warmth and sensitivity to this guy - the fact that he is submerged in the water. He is part of this world but just on the edge. There is something that makes him just a little different from the others. His 'edge' is just a little more refined than what I expect from a lot of the others.
This is exactly what I like about this creation.
When I put the deep purples into the knight (they look sumptuous printed), the darkness actually made me jump a little. It looks like the inside of some deathly public lav.But it also made me flutter inside. I wondered if all of the cards should be dark. I don't know. I shall see. But right now, it feels as though they should. A real deck for the night-time.
It would be really good to have all the cards set at night, for uniformity, but also because it would suit the gritty yet darkly sexual theme that I sense from the first two ideas. Which cards would you set outdoors and which indoors? Perhaps the Majors outdoors, as they are macrocosmic and influences which are more worldly and have inevitable influence over us, which shape us and define the boundaries that we must act within. Perhaps have the Minors set indoors, because these are more microcosmic, personal influences, which we shape and define ourselves? The Majors could all have the tower blocks in the background, the Minors would have perspectives from the inside, so we get to see things both ways. Sorry to be so bold as to make these suggestions, but you have me inspired.
And regardless of the disturbing side of this, there is something quite sexy about it. I agree. I also see an attractiveness in both guys. Maybe it is that they are unobtainable or a challenge. It is almost like peering into the knight's bathroom without his 'say-so'. It is quite an intimate card, I feel.
It is intimate - yet he doesn't seem to mind.
It seems to me that he is sat in the dark because his electric meter has run out, and he has no money for an electric card, but as he had enough hot water left for a bath, having nothing else to do without electric, he decided he might as well have a bath. You see I can get stories out of these images, which is why they would work so well as a Tarot. I never would have thought that a Tarot like this would have worked but you are making it seem very feasible.
What else is attractive about them is that they are vulnerable.
How about names? Would he be 'Knight of Cups', or 'Something of Something-else?'.
Also, any insight about the subject matter, since you have experience, would be immensely appreciated.
I couldn't help having ideas about other cards. Might The Devil be a copper or a 'pig', the arch-enemy? The Tower would be an easy one of course. I remember someone telling me that in the block where I usd to live, there was a guy who jumped from the top on Christmas day. A jumper from a block would make a good Tower card. Would the Hanged Man be a heroin addict in oblivion, suspended between the harrowing confines of his reality and some sweet elsewhere?
