I think a horizon line needs to be established,otherwise the clouds seem to run into the ground.Also,the lightning in the background is'nt lighting the clouds like it is in the foreground.Good start,just a little more polish.

Very nice art!!!
+7/7

the foreground is well done... and the meanning of deck is not completely negative... btw... work on the sky can help to give deeper and light at subject...
i love your style... +8

I *love* the base. That's the best part. JapiHonoo's right though, when it comes to tarat cards everything must be 100% vague. ;p

A more dramatic perspective would improve this too.

Vague... vague is not the word. Cards must be suggestive and symbolic; but the canonical symbols are not vague. The "esoteric" decks intended for meditation / psychological work, like the original Waite-Smith, actually have a very definite reason for every detail in the images. There are basically three kinds of Tarot decks (apart from playing cards): the Waite-Smith followers (e.g. Palladini), the Waite-Smith "enhancers" which are made to fit someone's different system (e.g. Crowley's Thoth), and vanity decks which toss the symbols out of the window (e.g. Baseball Tarot). The latter may be pretty, but they are rather useless for psychology of any sort, so it's best to research the tradition first and only then try to interpret it.

Beautiful!

look's great.

i like the cloud, so dark, so beautiful.

but it's kinda *lord of the ring*

but overall, great... ;D

Thanks.

yerffej: Thanks for pointing out the lightning problem (fixed). The horizon was supposed to be mostly obscured by a big dust storm but I guess it wasn't reading properly so I pulled it out.

Well done piece, I like it.

its collapse is no surprise

Very nice. i like the monochromatic quality. it gives me the feeling of it being printed on a card. This card represents death more often than the death card (from what i hear ^_^).

This reminds me very much of The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. the series starts with "The Gunslinger", and it is highly excellent. It's bizarre fantasy but very powerful. In the series, the tower is the axis of the many universes and worlds that compose reality, but it is broken somehow... ill. This tower is also great and terrible but also in danger.

i differ from yerffej in saying there's no horizon, cos i can see it clearly. mate, your better than i'll ever be.