This is an illustration centered around the Korean mythological fox demon, the kumiho, as part of a larger in progress personal series. This piece specifically presents a more intimate characterization of the fox demon interacting with her family of foxes. I love foxes.

The idea was pretty simple. I wanted to somehow combine the forms of the club and the number 4 in an interesting, beautiful way.

Well, I collect tarot decks, so the idea of my card came from the tarot. The 6 of spades is a card to represent transition, changings, knowing a new world, ideas, feelings and elsewhere. Basically I reinterpreted this ideas.

I have based my artwork on 6 number layout, I have choose to used only red and black colours, it’s a combo I used in my personal works actually who match perfect with the classic playing cards tones.

My brief is to develop art piece from “Nine Spade”. What come in my mind the first thing is “Cat”. In Thailand, we believe that cat is one of the animal that has the longest life some says cat has nine life. Therefore, this is what inspired me to create this art. I also use illusion technique to create a picture of cat in two character so the audience could look at my work from both side.

To be honest, designing a ’high’ card is a bit of a challenge to me. I wanted to design a reversible card and the illustration can stand on its own without looking at the given pictograms showing what card it is. Nature has always been my favourite subject. Natural elements such as animals and plants are used to incorporate 10 bits of diamonds with two of them facing each other at the centre forming an “X” symbol which means 10. The resulting piece is a reversible design with two sides that are totally different from each other.

I love to analyze the forms of a subject as a sculptor. I usually work with lines and strokes to create my illustrations. For the specific project I’ve decided to make a self portrait. Usually the card figures are static and serious, so I thought it would be a great idea to make a sarcastic pose, to illustrate the jack diamond.

Oddity :) I like to use pale colors. I think it’s make my illustration softer than real.