DRACO NOUVEAU TAROT

Good afternoon!

After getting back almost all of the initial test surveys, with only one minor issue, we have sent out the rest! You should expect to see yours in your mailbox soon. 

If you don't receive your survey, please make sure your email tied to your Backerkit account is up to date. If you still don't get it, please don't hesitate to reach out to us and we'll look into it for you.

Have a wonderful weekend!

- Kaitlund & Charles aka Drawn To Dragons,

We successfully launched the first group of survey's on Monday. Thank you for those who have had the opportunity to fill theirs' out first. For those who received the survey, If you haven't had a chance to fill it out, we would be grateful if you could take a couple of minutes out of your busy schedule to give it a look over. 

70% of the first group of survey's have been filled out and so far we have seen only one hiccup. If you did experience an issue, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We will be releasing the rest of the survey's on Friday August, 22, 2025. If you do experience any issues once you receive your survey, our best point of contact is [email protected].

After the rest of the survey's are released, my husband and I will be out of town attending Dragon Con 2025 from August 24th till September 7th. We will both do our best to address any questions from the survey's should you have any, but please be patient as we may need a little more time than usual to address your needs completely. 

Thank you so much for your patience and support as my husband and I do our best to meet your expectations in a timely manner. 

- Kaitlund and Charles aka Drawn To Dragons

Thank you for your patience everyone! 

Smoke test emails have gone out. 

Baring any large issues, the rest will go out by Friday this week.  

Please fill them out ASAP as we will be finalizing payment and closing edits to pre-orders and campaign rewards beginning when we get back from Dragon Con. 

As far as the artwork goes, Fall always has a bunch of surprises in store. Kaitlund is still working as quickly possible to get the artwork done. There has been quite a few hiccups that may push the fulfilment back into October/November a bit more than we had hoped. 

If you have any questions or concerns Let us know. As we have mentioned before, we are a small team of two people doing our very best and are here to assist. 

- Kaitlund & Charles

Hello everyone!

Wow, it has been a whirlwind of art and planning this month.
 
CARD DRAWINGS
We are happy to say the cards are progressing nicely, though unfortunately, not as fast as we would like. Art takes time, and sometimes art takes more time than one would think, especially the artist doing it.

You can check the current progress here.  Lots of cards will need the final detail/texture treatment to get them to match and flow well together but they are all conveying the meaning of the card well.

Every card shown has a drawing done except for 9 of cups currently. All the other missing drawings are about 75% done, just needing the final line drawing/detail and color.

As you can see there are a few drawings missing the final render and color, but I'm happy to say that those don't take very long. I can do between 3 to 4 a day, sometimes more if I do a 12 -13 hour day. It just depends on what my other obligations are here at the gallery such as teaching, which I have now stopped until the first week in October bringing me to my next point.

SHOWS
The main reason that these haven't progressed as much as we would have liked is that we unexpectedly got a 10x10 booth at Gencon a few weeks ago. Then about a week ago I got the info that we could upgrade to a 10x20 booth.

Those of you who know Gencon, knows that it isn't an opportunity to pass up. Some of my illustrator friends make 25% to 50% of their yearly income at this show if not more.  We also got into Dragon Con, FanX, and Dragonsteel. Gencon and Dragon Con being our first time attending.

These events pay the bills so to speak and they are an important part of why I can specifically illustrate as my career. Naturally we needed to split our focus on these events a bit to make them a successful event hopefully.

Unfortunately, that means that the Tarot Deck being delayed in getting to the printer. Yes, it sucks, and I am very sad that I couldn't get this done before the shows as I had originally planned. 

We hadn't gotten into Gen con and Dragon Con yet when this schedule was created.  Originally I was rejected from Gencon but unexpectedly the chance fell into my lap due to two other artists who ended up giving up their booths.

So my Husband and I are scrambling to get everything put together for those two shows while I'm working on trying to finish all the illustrations.

 
TAROT TIMELINE
My next timeline for completing all the artwork is the end of August. Thankfully, this actually gives Jennie Stevens, yes, that Jennie Stevens, who also works on edits for Brandon Sanderson, the opportunity to write up the card booklet!

She reached out after my previous monthly update in June mentioning that she would love to help me with the meanings of the cards and create specific card draws that are tuned to the deck. We are so excited to have her join the project.

While this isn't the update you hoped for with the delays we hope that the upgraded booklet will brighten your day and have you even more excited for the deck. We couldn't have asked for a better colaborator for the booklet.

August - Artwork done and sent to printer
September - Receive tarot decks and begin shipping

SURVEYS
Your surveys will be sent out by Saturday. Please be on the look out for them! We would love to get the product ordering started.

A FEW PRODUCT UPDATES
While I have you here, there was an update on the card deck holders as well. The leather that they will be made out of is currently in limbo. Originally Petulant Pudgies was going to assist with cutting them out and we would purchase the leather but they have lost access to their laser.

So we am going to have the company that does the Tarot stands assist. They are currently pricing out leather that fits our needs and getting another sample cut out.

You can also see a sample video of the sketchbook that arrived today here as well. The front will be embossed with laser engraved side and back. 


Thank you again, your support means the world to us and we continue to try to do everything we can to make sure that this will be the best product ever. 

Cheers! - Kaitlund and Charles AKA Drawn to Dragons. 

P.S. Will we see you at any of these shows? 

Happy Summer Solstice everyone!

The cards are progressing wonderfully!

I'm on track to have all the drawings completed by the end of June and the colors finished by mid July! Once all of that is done, I will send them off to the printer after some final tweaks and printing will begin.

I will complete the booklet and other design work while that is in progress.

Let me know if you have questions. The Backerkit store is now up and you can grab the deck if you missed out during the main campaign.

Comments are sometimes spotty post campaign. If you don't get a response, reach out to [email protected]

Cheers!

- Kaitlund