Read about my latest illustration and design projects, along with random geeky things that interest me!
Firefly Illustration in the New Printed in Blood Artbook (4/18/2021) - For the third time I’ve had one of my illustrations included in a Printed in Blood artbook. The first two were the Stranger Things artbook and the Ghostbusters artbook, plus I have two more artbooks coming up that will have my artwork in them. The next book, coming out early this fall, will be an … Continue reading "Firefly Illustration in the New Printed in Blood Artbook"
Topps 2020 MLB Update Trading Card Artwork (4/14/2021) - In 2020 I contributed artwork to the Topps MLB Museum Collection, Flagship series 1 and series 2, and Gallery. I’ve previously posted about all of those projects except for 2020 Update, which I’m doing so now! This was also the third year of me working on Topps MLB products and sometime soon I’ll be posting … Continue reading "Topps 2020 MLB Update Trading Card Artwork"
Topps 2020 MLB Museum Collection Trading Card Artwork (4/6/2021) - Topps MLB Museum Collection is easily my favourite of all baseball trading card sets to work on. I’ve previously worked on the 2018 to 2020 sets and the 2021 set but that won’t be released until June. What makes this set great to work on every year is that the paper quality is the best … Continue reading "Topps 2020 MLB Museum Collection Trading Card Artwork"
Ultraman Trading Cards from RRParks! (3/25/2021) - RRParks cards has produced a multitude of different trading card sets, from the niche and strange to the far more mainstream that the average collector is familiar with. That range of subject material is one of the reasons why as an artist it’s so much fun to work on their projects! Previously, I’ve worked on … Continue reading "Ultraman Trading Cards from RRParks!"
Getting to Know a Fellow Trading Card Artist, Jim Dickson (3/21/2021) - Last month I posted a conversation I had with trading card collector Chris Mixer and today I am posting one with fellow trading card artist, Jim Dickson. Both Jim and myself hail from Canada and met on social media channels through our mutual line of work. We’ve both actively shared one another’s work on Twitter and … Continue reading "Getting to Know a Fellow Trading Card Artist, Jim Dickson"
Getting to Know… Me? (3/20/2021) - On a Facebook Star Wars fan page, I was recently asked to contribute to their ongoing “getting to know Star Wars sketch card artists” posts. These go up roughly once a week, and it is spearheaded by Ashley Marsh who is a fabulous artist herself. As the questions she posed me and the responses I gave … Continue reading "Getting to Know… Me?"
My Topps Gallery Paintings as Collectibles (3/9/2021) - A little while ago I was contacted by a baseball card collector who had picked up some of the original paintings I created for Topps MLB Gallery. These paintings were reproduced for the base and insert sets, and then randomly inserted into the boxes of cards. The collector sought two of my paintings out online … Continue reading "My Topps Gallery Paintings as Collectibles"
2020 Upper Deck Goodwin Aesop Fables Artwork (3/6/2021) - 2020 Upper Deck Goodwin is a highly popular all sports and entertainment trading card set produced by Upper-Deck cards. The set is a callback to the historic Goodwin Champions cards that first appeared in 1888. This is similar to the Topps Allen & Ginter trading cards that are made today and are a revival of … Continue reading "2020 Upper Deck Goodwin Aesop Fables Artwork"
Topps 2020 Series 2 Baseball Sketch Card Artwork (1/23/2021) - Topps 2020 Series 2 Baseball is the third year I’ve had the pleasure of creating artwork for this set. This is one of the ‘flagship’ products for Topps, and something that I personally have collected since I was a kid. For this project, I created mainly portraits of current baseball players. I didn’t draw too … Continue reading "Topps 2020 Series 2 Baseball Sketch Card Artwork"
Topps 2020 Star Wars Holocron Trading Card Artwork (1/1/2021) - The final Star Wars trading card set for the year released this week and it wouldn’t be 2020 if there wasn’t at least one little mishap! In this case there are two. The first is that the set was delayed a number of times and it’s now a little crazy for me to look at … Continue reading "Topps 2020 Star Wars Holocron Trading Card Artwork"