p̵i̷x̸e̶l̶ ̵o̶c̶c̸u̴l̷t̴ @PixelOccult@witches.town

Hey pals, what with all the drama going down and the impending implosion of witches.town, I'll be relocating over to @PixelOccult

Find me there if you'd like!

Hi! I make things that I want to exist.

I made this tarot deck
http://www.neonmoontarot.com
and this one
http://www.sinkingwastelandtarot.com
Made some comics
https://medium.com/@pixeloccult

Also I'm on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/PIxelOccult

Some samples of my art:

Neon Moon Tarot in progress again, finally!
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#tarot #cyberpunk #illustration #occult

Today's tarot draw is Death from www.neonmoontarot.com
Themes for this card include: Change, transition, transformation. 

I must admit some difficulty with this card today. It was the first card I drew while doing a 'year ahead' reading on New year's Eve and halfway through January 1st I found that a friend had suddenly died. The death card doesn't necessarily mean physical death but in this case it made it difficult to do daily readings for a bit.
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Today's tarot draw is Fortune from www.neonmoontarot.com 
Themes for this card include: Destiny, luck, gratitude. 
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#tarot #art #cyberpunk #occult #illustration

New avatar who dis?

Getting back into the swing of things. The Neon Moon Tarot website is live! ( www.neonmoontarot.com ) I'll be adding new cards as I finish them. To celebrate, I'm going to draw from the deck for the next week. It's Major's only while I get the rest of the pips finished up.

Today's tarot draw is the Inverted World. Themes are: missing closure, and incompleteness. Certainly something I've encountered in this first week of 2018.
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#tarot #illustration #occult #art #cyberpunk

Lots of work to do yet and lots more pages to add but this is what I could squeeze in today. Woof. /collapse /sleep /zzz

OK so I'm finally getting this built out. Watch this space as I complete cards and add content: http://www.neonmoontarot.com

Starting off 2018 with a good one. Today's tarot draw is the Page of Wands from The Sinking Wasteland Tarot.

"It is time to be open minded and adventurous. Start out on your new beginning and be ready to try new things. You may not need a solid plan to get started this time so set out on the road and see where it takes you."
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#Tarot #art #occult #illustration

My camper is coming along OK I guess.

Happy New Year! Reading for myself as I round the clock.
#Tarot #newyear

14/ I hope that instead of gatekeeping, we can find ways to help.

Quick takes from this ramble: Imposter syndrome is crippling but you can't give in to it. Help each other, don't gatekeep. We save each other in big and small ways. Drawing is hard, comics are harder. Tarot is a lot of fun, you should try it. Failing is growing. Find your way forward. Happy New Year.

/fin

13/ And I wouldn't be able to complete it without those of you who allowed me to continue working on it. And I hope to share it with you soon. That pretty much takes us up to now.

This year was a success and I wanted you all to know how close to the bone it actually was for me to call it that. So if you have a voice screaming failure in your face, know that it's wrong. Every action you take in spite of that demon feeds your own growth.

I don't know what 2018 has in store for me but I feel like I'm building momentum. I hope it means that I get to help others more because it felt like a lot of 2017 was friends just keeping their heads above water.

12/ Kickstarter saved me. The tarot community, again, saved me. My friends and what supporters I have saved me. All of you, in ways big and small, contributed to a campaign that funded and hit its stretch goals.

And I was able to get backers the best version of The Sinking Wasteland and I'm so happy it exists now for those who got it. And it bought me time to work on The Neon Moon Tarot, which I can now share, I've completed sketching. It's in the final stretch.

And it wouldn't be where it is if it weren't for those failures along the way.

11/ Those of you who know that I came out this year can probably imagine the reception waiting for me in a small town.

Side note on that - I've been "forbidden" to bring anyone home after coming out. There's the flavor waiting for me. So you can understand that living out of a car or staying with friends was starting to look like a better option.

I honestly don't know what my resume looks like to HR anymore. I've got a huge gap staring in the face of anyone looking to hire me for tech so judging from the nonresponse to resumes I sent out, I'm not the hire that I once was.

I'm going to skip ahead a bit here.

10/ I haven't talked much about funding beyond saying I had savings. It was gone. I had to choose again to continue art or try to join the adults again in office jobs and draw on the side. I chose art and tried to get as far as I could. But another hit came.

My tarot deck sales stopped dramatically. I would later find out that the main forum they had been shared on had closed down. And then I was in a rather dire situation. That was my source of income and it fell out from under me. I scrambled to get things together somehow.

I was honestly looking at having to move back to that small town I had managed to get away from or become quasi homeless.

9/ I took a hit self-publishing in color and it took the wind out of me for a bit. But I rallied, eventually.

And when I got back up, I had that horrid inner voice screaming IMPOSTER louder than ever, all day every day. And I had to work with it in my face and pull out something of quality in spite of it, not because of it.

That's when I started on The Neon Moon Tarot, which was previously going to be The Neon Moon Comic. Exorcising my frustration over the 2016 election into a violent, neon cyberpunk future. But I knew now that I could use a tarot deck to describe characters and ambiance.

8/ I've been making them under one alias or another since college, when I found JTHM and realized they could be -anything-, not just super hero stories. They could be personal and fun and funny!

I -love- them. I love making them, I love reading them, I love the people who make them and the stories they all tell. I like superhero comics but I love indie stories. And I failed at pulling enough of that love together to make my comic baby a good one.

I'm sharing this because I want you to know that even in a successful year, I failed hard and I had to find a way to get back up after, and I didn't do it right away.