{"id":90,"date":"2010-07-27T03:59:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T03:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2010-10-31T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T10:59:50","slug":"the-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"The Emperor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt: <\/strong>Azazel<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist&#8217;s notes: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done several cards for this deck,  and I&#8217;d have to say that the Emperor card has been the most difficult. I  would have  preferred to do the card with John in this role, but as  someone had already taken that  prompt, I agreed to look at Azazel as  the Emperor.<\/p>\n<p>In the Major  Arcana, the Emperor is filled with  enthusiasm, energy and aggression. He  is direct and  irresistible. He  can be a tyrant, impatient, demanding, and  controlling. He can be the  leader everyone wants to follow, ruling with a  solid foundation,  intelligence and enthusiasm, but he can also be  trapped by his throne,  restless and bored.<\/p>\n<p>As I can&#8217;t really draw, I was limited to   images from the show, and it was difficult to find Azazel seated in the   typical Emperor fashion. I ended up using a picture of a seated Samuel   Campbell before he had been possessed and colored the eyes. I used the  image of John possessed by Azazel, first of all because I loved that  scene, but  mostly because I felt it represented clearly the tyrant  aspect of the  card, demanding and controlling, aggression and  intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Frederic Lehne is probably the most popular  incarnation of Azazel,  so I made his image prominent as well. His face  is steadfast, resolute, the demanding leader who will go to any lengths  to win. The last image of Azazel that I\u00c2\u00a0used was that of him standing  over Sam&#8217;s crib, a pivotal scene in the show, and an image that shows  him building the foundation of his &#8216;special&#8217; children.<\/p>\n<p>I tinted  the card for 2  reasons, both artistic. The various images didn&#8217;t quite  match up as far  as saturation and coloring, and making most of the card  a monotone color  really let the yellow eyes stand out.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/spn_tarot\/30178.html\">The Emperor<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt: Azazel Artist&#8217;s notes: I&#8217;ve done several cards for this deck, and I&#8217;d have to say that the Emperor card has been the most difficult. I would have preferred to do the card with John in this role, but as someone had already taken that prompt, I agreed to look at Azazel as the Emperor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,151,5,13,41],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demons","category-john-winchester","category-major-arcana","category-slaysvamps","category-the-winchesters","tag-the-emperor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}